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Principal |
Donna Pierson-Pugh email the principal |
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Awards |
Distinguished School |
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Special features |
special education program, independent study, gifted and talented, before- and after- school care |
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Dress code |
Dress code: Students must dress appropriately when attending school. Shorts should be no shorter than mid-thigh, and shirts revealing midriffs are not permitted. In addition clothing bearing inappropriate language or suggesting any unacceptable behavior, practice, affiliation or products is not permitted. Wearing make-up is not appropriate for elementary school students. School administrators have the right, by law, to send home a student who is not dressed or groomed appropriately. |
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School Mission
- The vision of Anderson Valley Elementary staff and parents is to foster the development of educated students who will be respectful, responsible, healthy, and thoughtful citizens. This will be accomplished by improving the academic performance, social skills and resilience of all of our students through explicit instruction and project-based application of their learning that includes artistic, musical, technological. leadership, and critical thinking opportunities.
| Curriculum |
- Bilingual programs in Spanish.
- This school has a particular instructional focus on hands-on learning, project-based instruction.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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| Activities and Sports |
- Girls sports: basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball.
- Boys sports: basketball, football and soccer.
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: AVES After School Choral Ensemble - 4th - 6th grades; After School Art 4th - 6th; After School Graden Club K- 6th; After School Band - 5th - 6th; After School Spansih Club K- 2 and 3-6 and After School Baile Folklorico and Ballet 1st - 6th.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: band, chorus, drawing/painting, ceramics and video/film production.
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Parent and Community Support
- Parents participate in class, in our PTAV (Parents and Teachers of Anderson Valley), in our School Site Council, and on the District English Language Advisory Council. In addition our parents attend our semi-annual parent/teacher/student conferences. We have parents and community members read in the Breakfast Club -a before-school story time, as well as helping us with our garden, vermiculture and after school art activities. Some parents meet their children on Tuesday afternoons (our early release day) to read in the library and watch their children take the Accelerated Reader quizzes on the computer to see how well the students understood the story.
| Technology and Facilities |
- This school has 3 students per computer. Numbers used to calculate this ratio were provided by the principal. This ratio may differ from the ratio given elsewhere on this profile where the numbers were provied by the state.
- 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- District provides transportation to this school.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Entering students typically come from: Peachland Preschool.
- Graduates typically go to: Anderson Valley Jr/Sr High School.
- Students at this school enroll primarily because they live within the school's attendance boundary.
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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 |
- 96-100% of students remained enrolled at the school between last school year and this school year.
- Regular classroom hours: 8:20am to 2:55pm.
- Principal has been at this school for 2 years.
- Principal has 28 years of experience.
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Volunteer requests
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Description: Help students in the after school program with homework.
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- Contact name: Nicole Mclain
- Contact phone: 707 895-3010
- Contact email: dpp@mcn.org
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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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