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Special features |
before- and after- school care |
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Dress code |
Uniforms required: Uniforms include white shirts and navy shorts, pants, skirts and skorts as well as jumpers. The school t-shirt may be purchased at the school office, at the Friday Student Store, or at Parent-Teacher Group functions. |
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| Curriculum |
- Special education programs designed specifically for students with hearing impairments, language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities, visual 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
- All classrooms focused on the California State Standards, wtih GATE classes in grades 3-5. All students tested for GATE in grade 2.
- All-day kindergarten beginning mid-year, with all kindergarten classes at a 15:1 ratio from September to February.
- Reading and math specialist are experienced, retired teachers who work with small groups until each student is at grade level.
- Children making safe, kind and respectful choices are rewarded monthly with a special assembly. This is a school which insists that children learn and practice good citizenship and respectful behavior.
| Activities and Sports |
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: ASES - After School Program offered through the school district and the YMCA, provided free after school daily, 2:50-6:00; Tools for Tomorrow - integrated art, music, drama and writing provided free after school twice a week; EarlyACT - sponsored by the Rancho Mirage Rotary, focused on teaching and learning leadership skills in all grades; Character Kids - after-school choral group for fourth and fifth graders which performs at school and in the community and Violin lessons after school once a week, provided free of charge with free violin use.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: chorus.
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Parent and Community Support
- A highly organized and active PTG meets monthly to plan functions and involve parents in providing services, activities, and support for the school. Field trips, playground equipment, computers, and assemblies have been paid for with PTG funds.
The School Site Council meets quarterly to look at the school plan, modify it annually, and generate ideas for improving the school.
The Rancho Mirage Rotary Club, Rancho Mirage Women's Club and Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce all are dedicated to supporting the school and its programs. In addition, private donors support the school in ways large and small.
Other news or notes
- Rancho Mirage Elementary School is one of two schools in the Palm Springs Unified School District with an Academic Performance Index (API) over 800. In our second consecutive year over 800, our current score is 805.
This year, we are eligible to apply for California Distinguished School status.
We are the only school in our district with an all-day kindergarten program in every kindergarten class (beginning mid-year.) From September through February, each class of approximately 30 kindergartners is split in to a morning and afternoon class, so that the student-teacher ratio is 15:1. In February, most students attend all day, from 8:34-2:50.
| Technology and Facilities |
- This school has 5 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.
- This school offers wireless internet (wi-fi) access to students.
- This school was established between 1960-1969.
- District provides transportation to this school.
- Recent or upcoming renovations: A remodeling in 2002 added 10 classrooms in a two-story building. The computer lab was completely updated in 2005, with 32 new computers, LCD projector, and two high-speed printers.
- Library facilities: Every year, our library has a different theme, so students are excited to enter the library with a outer-space theme, a rain forest, or (this year) a western theme. Students see a new theme every year they are at Rancho Mirage.
Books are updated so that award-winning books are available every year and non-fiction books are updated.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Students at this school enroll primarily because they live within the school's attendance boundary.
- Most 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: closed campus;
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- Regular classroom hours: 8:34 A.M. to 12:50 P.M.
- Principal has been at this school for 8 years.
- Principal has 16 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 10/05/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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