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Principal |
Paul Jarvis email the principal |
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Awards |
Office Max "A Day Made Better" Award Recipient (2004) |
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Special features |
special education program, gifted and talented, before- and after- school care |
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Dress code |
Dress code: See parent-student handbook on site web page.
Essentially, clothing must be clean, modest, safe and appropriate. Make-up, extreme hair styles, and distracting accessories are discouraged. |
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School Mission
- Mission: To meet individual needs of our students and teach them at high levels.
Vision: To become a community of learners who--commit to continuous improvement, work as a collaborative team, clarify what each student is expected to learn, monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis, and provide additional time and support within the school day to strengthen students who are not learning.
| Curriculum |
- Foreign language(s) taught: French and Foreign Language taught during after school enrichment program.
- Special education programs designed specifically for students with autism, language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities and visual impairments.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Instructional Program Highlights
- Academic intervention and enrichment within the school day.
- Common assessments at each grade level.
- Focus on essential standards.
- Professional Learning Community Model--emphasis on collaboration and continuous improvement and using data to inform instruction.
| Activities and Sports |
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: Campus Beautification Club; Friday Night Live; Bright Futures Enrichment and Remedial Program (Before & After School); Lunch Intramural Sports & Activities Program; Destination Imagination and Character Counts.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: band, theater/drama, dance and Dance and Theater/Drama taught in after school enrichment program.
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Parent and Community Support
- Parents and community members attend back to school night, open house, parent conferences, family activity nights, PTA Family Fun nights. Many volunteer in the classroom. Several parents and community members teach in our Bright Futures after school program and participate in School Site Council, ELAC, and Title I committee.
Other news or notes
- Dana School is located between the Nipomo Regional Park, the county library, and a community health center. We have a large, beautiful (but well aged) campus that is used heavily by the public. AYSO, youth basketball, a local church congregation, two 4H groups, Nipomo Recreation, and several other community organizations use our facilities regularly.
| Technology and Facilities |
- This school has 4 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.
- This school was built between 1960-1969.
- Recent or upcoming renovations: Removal of well. The area will be developed as a picnic eating area. Within the next year, the school will be hooked up to a sewer and will go of its septic system.
- Gymnasium and physical education facilities: Dana Elementary School does not have a gymnasium--we do have a multi-purpose room--The Stallion Center. We have two spacious fields and three different playground areas. Our blacktop features three basketball courts, two volleyball courts, several four square courts and six tetherball courts.
- Library facilities: Our library was recently moved into a new location--it is in rooms 13 and 14. We have new furniture and 12 Dell computers with access to the Internet.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Graduates typically go to: Mesa Middle School.
- Students at this school enroll primarily because they live within the school's attendance boundary.
- Students also enroll by: We are a neighborhood school. All students (except inter and intra-district transfers live within two miles of campus. Kinder students who live more than a half mile from campus are eligible for busing. The only other students eligible for busing are "freeze and shuttle" students who are sent to Dana because their neighborhood school is full. Some special education students receive special busing.
- 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: Security guard(s) (full or part-time); Peer mediation or conflict resolution program; After school or lunchtime detentions; In-school suspension; closed campus;
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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: 9:00 am to 3:15 pm.
- Principal has been at this school for 3 years.
- Principal has 25 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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