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Awards |
LA Magazine-One of 60 great elementary schools in LA |
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Special features |
nonprofit, before- and after- school care |
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Scheduling features |
extended day |
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Dress code |
Uniforms required: Students wear white or gray polo shirts with school logo, navy blue pants, shorts or skorts and a navy blue sweatshirt or sweater with the school logo. They can be purchased at La Ciguena or at Carousel. |
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School Mission
- The mission of the Gabriella Charter School is to draw upon the discipline, creativity and cognitive aspects of dance to engage children to become more active learners and to enhance academic skill-building by integrating dance throughout the curriculum. The elementary charter school offers a challenging and innovative standards-based curriculum that is complemented by the focus, discipline and creativity of dance. The curriculum's goal is to stimulate children to STRETCH, REACH, EXPLORE, PRACTICE and PERFORM as a means of achieving excellence in the classroom.
| Curriculum |
- Immersion programs in English.
- This school has a particular instructional focus on back-to-basics, traditional instruction.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Instructional Program Highlights
- Rigorous standards-based curriculum enhanced with hands-on activities, experiments and projects, daily dance instruction and weekly visual arts.
- School-wide culture that sets clear behavioral and academic expectations
- Parents are enlisted as partners in educational
process; minimum 15 hour/year volunteer commitment expected. - Students are assigned nightly homework
including required independent reading.
| Activities and Sports |
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: After-school program includes snack, assistance with homework and participation in
clubs--sports and arts and crafts. (K-5); parents pay on a sliding scale and Math and Music class is an enrichment to the mathematics program for grades 2-5.
Students have instruction in music appreciation and keyboarding and spend two
periods a week on a coordinated computer program that emphasizes problem solving.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: drawing/painting, dance and Music keyboarding.
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Parent and Community Support
- Parents work in the classroom, assist in the
office and library, monitor pickup and dropoff,
help with school beautification projects,
garden, monitor dance and art classes,
make costumes, hold leadership positions in
our Parent Organization and on our School
Governance Committee. High school and
adult community volunteers work in the
classrooms and tutor in our after-school
program.
Other news or notes
- GCS values development of the following:
Strong study skills; attentive and respectful
behavior; cooperative learning; effective
communcation; ability to relate history to
current events; accurate computation and
problemsolving; fluency and critical reading;
keen observation (science); joy in learning.
| Technology and Facilities |
- This school has 3 students per computer. Numbers used to calculate this ratio were provided by the principal. This ratio may differ from the ratio given elsewhere on this profile where the numbers were provied by the state.
- 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- This school was established in 2005.
- No transportation is provided to this school.
- Recent or upcoming renovations: Recent renovations include enlargement of the 4th grade classroom and remodeling
of classroom bathrooms.
- Gymnasium and physical education facilities: Gabriella uses two dance studios for classes in ballet, tap, modern dance, creative
movement, world dance and Latin dance. We have a playyard and a play structure
used for two recesses during the day. Students have opportunities to play basketball,
4-square, kickball, jump rope, handball, catch.
- Library facilities: All classrooms have libraries with a range of books available for checkout. Additionally Gabriella has a library with a large selection of fiction and nonfiction
that is available during the day or to be checked out by students.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Entering students typically come from: Hoover, Commonwealth.
- Graduates typically go to: No graduates yet.
- Students at this school are chosen by a lottery system.
- Students also enroll by: GCS holds a lottery each year for 20 new kindergarten spaces. A lottery is held to
select six additional students each year at the 4th grade level and to establish
a waiting list for grades 1, 2, 3, 5 and.
- Almost all 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. Other safety and discipline-related resources include: Student and parent conferences.
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- 86-90% of students remained enrolled at the school between last school year and this school year.
- This school has an emphasis in visual arts.
- This school also emphasizes: dance.
- Regular classroom hours: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. MTWF;.
- Principal has been at this school for 3 years.
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Volunteer requests
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Category: language arts/social studies
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Description: After school tutors
Daytime classroom support
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- Contact name: Susan Gurman
- Contact phone: 213 487-0839
- Contact email: sgurman@gabriellacharterschool.org
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Donation requests
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Category: arts/other enrichment
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Description: Help us support dance,
visual arts and technology.
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- Contact name: Susan Gurman
- Contact phone: 213 487-0839
- Contact email: sgurman@gabriellacharterschool.org
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Category: math/science
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Description: Problemsolving on
music keyboards and computers.
computr p
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- Contact name: Susan gurman
- Contact phone: 213 487-0839
- Contact email: sgurman@gabriellacharterschool.org
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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 04/03/2008. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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