Meyers Park Traditional Elementary School is a CMS Magnet school serving kindergarten through 5th grade with students admitted by lottery. The school is located in the Meyers Park neighborhood, adjacent to Queens University and has been in existence since 1928.
According to the North Carolina Report Card for the 2014-2015 school year, the school exceeded growth during this academic period and has a performance letter grade of A. Current data from CMS show enrollment at 726 students, with 315 Black, 347 White, 36 Hispanic or Latino, 13 Multi-Racial and 40 Asian students. 34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The average student/teacher ratio is 18.7 :1. The school employs 40 teachers all of whom are NC certified.
The teacher I observed is a white female and has been teaching for two years, her first year teaching was in Kindergarten and this year she is in second grade. Her class consists of 23 students, of whom 13 are boys and 10 girls. Of these students, 13 are African American, 7 are White and 3 …show more content…
There are three levels, Gold Silver and Bronze which directly correlate to class activities and field trips. The gold behavior plan relates to a student not being allowed to attend high-reward gold field trips or school-wide events, with silver and bronze levels relating to lesser events like an in house field trip or in class activity. A student has to receive two alerts to be referred to the office for a bronze level behavior issue. Three alerts result in moving to silver level and five alerts leads to implementation of a gold level behavior plan which includes a one-day suspension. To earn an alert, a student has to be given five dots by his or her teacher on any one day. Special area teachers can also give dots to students. One student in the class is responsible for the clipboard which contains that day’s dot chart and has to bring it to specials, lunch and the
According to the North Carolina Report Card for the 2014-2015 school year, the school exceeded growth during this academic period and has a performance letter grade of A. Current data from CMS show enrollment at 726 students, with 315 Black, 347 White, 36 Hispanic or Latino, 13 Multi-Racial and 40 Asian students. 34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The average student/teacher ratio is 18.7 :1. The school employs 40 teachers all of whom are NC certified.
The teacher I observed is a white female and has been teaching for two years, her first year teaching was in Kindergarten and this year she is in second grade. Her class consists of 23 students, of whom 13 are boys and 10 girls. Of these students, 13 are African American, 7 are White and 3 …show more content…
There are three levels, Gold Silver and Bronze which directly correlate to class activities and field trips. The gold behavior plan relates to a student not being allowed to attend high-reward gold field trips or school-wide events, with silver and bronze levels relating to lesser events like an in house field trip or in class activity. A student has to receive two alerts to be referred to the office for a bronze level behavior issue. Three alerts result in moving to silver level and five alerts leads to implementation of a gold level behavior plan which includes a one-day suspension. To earn an alert, a student has to be given five dots by his or her teacher on any one day. Special area teachers can also give dots to students. One student in the class is responsible for the clipboard which contains that day’s dot chart and has to bring it to specials, lunch and the