Elementary School Magnet Programs - Jefferson County Public ...

■ Middletown
218 North Madison Avenue • 485-8300
Slogan: Discovering the brilliance in every child
Highlights:
• Offers the Advance Program
• Staffed by award-winning teachers
• Presents a drama/musical each year
• Offers a dynamic, award-winning Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
• Maintains an outstanding school Web site
• Offers Academic Team as well as soccer, basketball, cheerleading, and chess teams
■ Norton
8101 Brownsboro Road • 485-8308
Slogan: Where all children learn at high levels. No exceptions. No excuses.
Highlights:
• Offers the Advance Program
• Recognized as a Kentucky Pacesetter School for scoring in the top 5 percent on
state tests
• Designated a Parent Involvement School of Excellence by the National PTA
• Offers numerous programs and activities, including Academic Team, Spanish,
Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts
■ Stopher
14417 Aiken Road • 485-8281
Highlights:
• Offers the Advance Program
• Offers the Primary Talent Pool
• Provides after-school enrichment programs
• Offers an Academic Team that has won Mayor’s Cup competitions and a Student
Technology Leadership Program (STLP) that has been awarded Gold status on
the state level
• Offers a wide range of extracurricular activities, including basketball, cheerleading,
flag football, fencing, chess, and dance
• Provides Chinese and Latin instruction to all students
SPOTLIGHT
Lessons in the great
outdoors
Many JCPS teachers expand classroom
science lessons by taking
students to the Blackacre State Nature
Preserve. For example, several
times during the last school year,
fourth- and fifth-grade Middletown
Elementary teachers took students
to perform outdoor experiments
and record observations about the
natural world in their science journals.
The students observed bass
swimming in a pond and studied
a foot-high anthill full of Allegheny
mound ants. Blackacre also has
woodlands, fields, trails, barns, and
a pioneer-era quarry.
“What we’re doing out here [at
Blackacre] is aligned with what
teachers are doing in the classroom,”
says JCPS naturalist Bryan
Thompson.
Other schools that visited the nature
preserve last year include Cane
Run, Portland, Shacklette, Jeffersontown,
and Rutherford Elementary
as well as Newburg Middle
and Olmsted Academy South. The
students from Cane Run and Portland,
which offer the Environmental
Studies Magnet Program, visited
Blackacre many times throughout
the year for field studies. ▼
Guide to Elementary Schools
Cluster 10
Advance Program
Early Childhood Program*
English as a Second Language (ESL) Program
Extended School Services
Family Resource Center
CARE for Kids Program
Uniforms
Childcare Enrichment Program*
Magnet
Program*
Bowen • • • • • •
Chancey • • • • • •
Goldsmith • • • • • • • •
Middletown • • • • • • •
Norton • • • •
Stopher • • • • •
*The program is hosted at these schools. Students from other schools may be served.
International/Cultural
Studies and Language
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