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| Gadsden Elementary |
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| Quick
Facts |
| GRADES: |
PK - 5th |
| FOUNDED: |
1951 |
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| POINTS
of PRIDE |
| Gadsden Performing & Fine Arts Academy provides a rich curriculum that integrates the arts across all subject areas, thus providing a comprehensive spectrum of learning. Instruction is differentiated to meet the learning styles of all the students we serve. Utilizing the Leonard Bernstein’s Artful Learning Sequence, Masterworks of Study are utilized as references for cross-curricular, project-based learning. Students in fifth grade declare majors to prepare them for the feeder middle school of the arts, Shuman. Students are heavily involved in hands-on learning via specialized rooms for the arts, math, science, and technology. Performances are scheduled within the community and grade levels creatively perform learning content at PTA meetings. Gadsden Elementary School has been named a Title 1 Distinguished School, Magnet School of Distinction, and Magnet School of Excellence. Our school has made Adequate Yearly Progress for 5 consecutive years. We are, as our motto declares, "Setting the Stage for Excellence". |
| Activities/Programs |
Sports
Programs |
| Gadsden’s Performing & Fine Arts program affords all children a rotated schedule of the arts in grades K-4 to include: Drama, Visual, Graphic and Computer Art, Strings, Music (Chorus, Orchestra, Keyboarding, Orff and Recorders), and Dance (ballet, modern jazz, creative movement, tap, clogging, and more). Students in 5th grade declare a major in one of the areas listed, with the addition of Band as a choice. Two Pre-Kindergarten classes are also housed at Gadsden.
Extra programs and activities offered at Gadsden include: After-school Academic Camp, Landings Outreach Volunteer Educators, National Council of Negro Women's Bethune Readers, Character through the Arts Artful Learning initiative, Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program, Parent Center. Community Performances and Art Shows, Grade Level Performance, Science Fairs, Spelling Bees, Writing Competitions. |
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| Accelerated
Programs |
Special
Education |
| Gadsden participates in Project Ignite, a computer-based science program for grades third -fifth. Gadsden also offers a Gifted Education Program to all eligible students. |
All special education students receive services in regular education classrooms through the Inclusion model. Speech services are provided for students in need of assistance in that area. |
| Vision |
| From school to the world: All students prepared for productive futures |
| Mission |
| To ignite a passion for learning and teaching at high levels |
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