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Special features |
religious, before- and after- school care |
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Scheduling features |
year-round |
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Gender composition |
coed |
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Dress code |
Uniforms required: Kensington School's uniform may be purchased through Dennis Uniform in Portland, OR..www.dennisuniform.com. |
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School Mission
- Kensington School wishes to educate the "whole" child, and bring the love of learning back to younger students. We strive to include not only great American standards of academics, but bring in foundations from other countries that have a high education curve such as South Korea, Ireland and parts of Scandanavia.
We hope to achieve this through "hands-on" learning, visually stimulating class lessons and a love of teaching that engages each and every child that walks through our doors.
Our ultimate goal is to have alumni that have the tools to succeed in both their everyday lives and at their elementary schools, with honor, self-esteem and good old fashioned morals, ethics and manners.
| Curriculum |
- Foreign language(s) taught: Spanish and ASL.
- This school has a particular instructional focus on back-to-basics, traditional instruction.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1
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Instructional Program Highlights
- We offer an accelerated kindergarten program.
- Our preschool and kindergarten teachers use role playing to help the children problem solve: i.e. bullying, anger management, bad choices.
- Our preschool program offers ASL, and it continues throughout the other classes with songs, hand plays and everyday words.
| Activities and Sports |
- This school has the following art(s) programs: theater/drama and dance.
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Parent and Community Support
- We have "room parents" for each class, and several other parents donate time to teachers, or parents offer assistance with other aspects of Kensington's upkeep.
Other news or notes
- We are a close-knit school, and each student is considered family!
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Measures used to evaluate applicants: interview and samples of student work.
- To evaluate applicants, this school also uses: early admittance into our kindergarten program requires a test, and student evaluation.
- Of the students who applied for admission to this school for the current school year, 81-100% were accepted.
- Tuition: $7000-7999
- 21-40% of students receive financial aid to attend this school.
- Graduates typically go to: St. Paul's; Willagillespie and Oak Hill.
- Students at this school enroll by choice.
- About half 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: Peer mediation or conflict resolution program; closed campus. Other safety and discipline-related resources include: security locks that require a parental id code.
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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.
- This school has an emphasis in mathematics, science and visual arts.
- This school also emphasizes: Literacy, music.
- Regular classroom hours: 7 AM to 5:30 PM.
- Principal has been at this school for 2 years.
- Principal has 13 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 04/22/2008. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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