Elementary School Magnet Programs - Jefferson County Public ...

■ Luhr
6900 Fegenbush Lane • 485-8295
Slogan: Caring enough to create success
Highlights:
• Offers an Honors Program
• Offers numerous athletic and academic activities,
including basketball, cheerleading, Academic
Team, and Chess Club
• Provides extra help for students through Extended
School Services (ESS), volunteer tutoring, and
homework clubs
■ Okolona
7606 Preston Highway • 485-8309
Slogan: Success for Every Child
Highlights:
• Earned the Mayor’s Top Apple Award for improving
reading scores
• Offers Academic Team, the College Bound Program,
Chess Club, and Student Council
• Recognizes student achievement through the Writing
Stars and Cosmic Basketball Programs and
through individual classroom celebrations
• Offers the Okolona Sport Stacking Club
• Provides a full-time science teacher and a full-time
technology instructor
• Provides extra help for students through such
programs as ESS, student tutors, Smyrna/Moore
Traditional’s Mentoring Program (with middle school
students), and the RAMP UP Reading Program (with
Moore Traditional’s high school students)
• Offers a Family Resource Center (FRC) that provides
students and parents with activities and programs,
including basketball and a dance team
■ Wilt
6700 Price Lane • 485-8353
Slogan: Where Effort Becomes Excellence!
Highlights:
• Meets state testing goals
• Serves as a pilot site for the Assessment for Learning
Program
• Serves as an ECE collaboration model
• Recognized as a Health Promotion School of Excellence
(HPSE)
• Offers many student activities, including Academic
Team, band, orchestra, Safety Patrol, Student of the
Month Program, Jump Rope For Heart, soccer, fencing,
and acting
Guide to Elementary Schools
■ Rangeland
1701 Rangeland Road • 485-8317
Mission: Fit to Learn: Developing Minds, Building
Character, and Strengthening Bodies
Highlights:
• Offers the Health and Fitness for Accelerated
Learning Program for Elementary Clusters 7
through 13 (See page 6.)
• Offers the Advance Program
• Provides the Parent Institute (teachers and parents
help other parents prepare for the school year) as
well as Reading Recovery and the Attitude, Action,
Achievements (AAA) Club
• Partners with Junior Achievement (JA)
• Offers Academic Team, basketball, cheerleading,
track, and Girls on the Run
■ Smyrna Traditional
6401 Outer Loop • 485-8329
Highlights:
• Provides traditional education (But Smyrna is not
part of the feeder system to traditional middle
schools. See the information on traditional education
on page 10.)
• Expects parents to monitor their children’s schoolwork,
support academic and extracurricular activities,
and join the Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
7Cluster 7
Advance Program
Early Childhood Program*
English as a Second Language (ESL) Program
Extended School Services
Family Resource Center
CARE for Kids Program
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Uniforms
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Luhr • • • • • • •
Okolona • • • • •
Rangeland • • • • • • • •
Smyrna Traditional • • • • •
Wilt • • • • • •
Childcare Enrichment Program*
*The program is hosted at these schools. Students from other schools may be served.
Magnet
Program*
Health and
Fitness for
Accelerated
Learning
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