Scholarship
- Daily after school coach/tutoring classes to support student growth and learning
- Optional Saturday Academy study hall
- More than 75% of students scored proficient or advanced on the MSA
- Approximately 85% of students gained entry to selective city-wide or private high schools
- Co-taught inclusion and
- self-contained classes for children with special needs
- A school library with over 11,500 books
- National Academic League team
- Senior and Junior chess clubs
- Intervention teachers and community tutors to support struggling learners
Creativity
- Fine Arts instruction in early elementary through middle school
- Ceramics and pottery program
- Vocal and Instrumental music program
- 60 piece regionally competitive and recognized school band
- Traveling all-school choir – The Hamilton Singers
- Two annual school musicals
- Dance/tumbling and cheerleading instruction after school
- Athletics as “Movement and Kinesthetic Art” – Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, and Track
- Quarterly arts assemblies featuring musical, artistic, spoken word, or dance performances
Reason
- Ingenuity Program for advanced math and science students
- Science resource and experimentation teacher for grades 3 through 5
- Dedicated science teachers and labs for grades 6-8
- Annual science fair
- School farm/community gardening space ran by community a Master Gardener
- Outdoor classroom space
- Three computer labs and regular computer instruction
- Five “Tech-Smart” math classrooms equipped with Promethean interactive boards
- Science focused field trips at all grade levels
Character
- Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) school program
- Teacher/student mentoring program
- Students Against Destructive Decisions peer education program
- Male student self-discipline, martial arts, wrestling, and service learning – Helping Boys Understand
- Female student service and women’s issues group –
- The GEMS
- Sports4Kids character developing recess play and peer coaching program
- Two social workers and a counselor to develop social skills and address student conflict
- Partnership with Community Conferencing Mediation Program