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Principal |
Brent Johnson email the principal |
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Special features |
special education program |
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Scheduling features |
year-round |
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Dress code |
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School Mission
- At Natomas Park Elementary School we are committed to the success of each student. We achieve this success through building academic skills, fostering personal growth, and creating involved community members. Natomas Park Elementary embraces the ideal that a school must be a community of learners, where each member assumes responsibility for the success of our children.
| Curriculum |
- Foreign language(s) taught: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish and Tagalog.
- Immersion programs in English.
- Special education programs designed specifically for students with autism, language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities, orthopedic impairments, multiple disabilities and other health impairments.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Instructional Program Highlights
- Our distict's adopted curriculum includes Open Court, Houghton Mifflin Spelling, 6 Traits Writing, Write Source for Language Arts and Saxon for Math. Into English is used for English Learners. New Science and Social Studies curriculums are currently being selected.
- Guided Language Acquisition and Development (GLAD) is a program that is stress in a majority of our classrooms and trainings are scheduled for the remaining teachers.
- Helping One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) is a program that matches community members one on one with students is need of support.
| Activities and Sports |
- This school has the following art(s) programs: theater/drama and drawing/painting.
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Parent and Community Support
- Parents are very involved through classroom volunteering and participation in our PTA and school events.
| Technology and Facilities |
- 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- This school was established in 2000.
- District provides transportation to this school.
- Gymnasium and physical education facilities: Natomas Park has a Multipurpose Room that is used as a cafeteria, gym, Theater, and assembly hall. Physicial education is taught outside on blacktop and grass field areas.
- Library facilities: The library has an open atmosphere with 20 foot ceiling and clerestory windows. There is a broad collection of books available to our diverse population of students.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Graduates typically go to: Natomas Middle School and Natomas Charter School.
- Students at this school enroll primarily because they live within the school's attendance boundary.
- Almost all of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
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| Safety, Discipline and Support |
- Safety and discipline-related resources include: In-school suspension;
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- 86-90% of students remained enrolled at the school between last school year and this school year.
- Regular classroom hours: 7:45am to 2:09pm.
- Principal has been at this school for 7 years.
- Principal has 27 years of experience.
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| Source of Data |
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 10/04/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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