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School Mission
  • Empowering learners to:

  • question
  • wonder
  • risk
  • care
  • act

    in the global community.

Curriculum
  • Foreign language(s) taught: Spanish.
  • Special education programs designed specifically for students with language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities and limited intellectual functioning.
 
 
Instructional Program Highlights
  • Units of Inquiry are designed by teachers to focus on the six organizing themes. These six themes drive the process of inquiry that occurs throughout the year.
  • The Learner Profile describes the attributes emphasized in the PYP programme. In this way the PYP Programme encourages social, physical, emotional and cultural growth while offering an academically challenging curriculum.
  • An essential part of the PYP Programme is the knowledge and application of a second language. At Brown, students will learn Spanish in addition to a well-rounded curriculum including art, music, and dance.

Activities and Sports
  • Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: Student Council; Shakespeare; DPS Success; Leapfrog Math; Intramural Sports and Destination Imagination.
  • This school has the following art(s) programs: band, art and chorus.
 
 
Parent and Community Support
  • We have both a PTO and a Bilingual Parent Action Committee who run fundraisers and help with school programs.

Other news or notes
  • Full-time Teacher Librarian
  • Full-time School Nurse (named School Nurse of the Year in 2006)
  • Computer Lab with 32 computers
  • Laptop cart with 14 laptop computers
  • Accelerated Reader program

Technology and Facilities
  • 9 students per computer.
  • 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
  • This school was established between 1950-1959.
  • District provides transportation to this school.
 
 
Admissions and Enrollment
  • Graduates typically go to: Lake Middle School; Skinner Middle School and North High School.
  • Almost all of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
 
 
Other Features and Highlights
  • Regular classroom hours: 9:00 to 3:45.
  • Principal has been at this school for 2 years.
 
 
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 01/16/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.  

 
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