Franklin Elementary

 A School Community that Offers:

• A Safe, Friendly and Child Centered atmosphere

• A Nurturing and supportive environment with experienced, caring teachers and support staff

• Extracurricular Opportunities/Clubs: Band, Art, Spelling, Science, Spanish Intramurals for 5th Grade, Sign Language, Spanish, Scrabble, Student Council, Chess, Lego and Altruism club.

• A Wonderful parent community with strong involvement, many volunteer opportunities, and an active PTO

• A Rigorous focus on literacy and numeracy development

• A Certified literacy specialist and an Instructional Coach

• Literacy support services across all grade levels

• Gifted and Talented (GT) services

• Special education programming through LSS – Learning Support Services including DHH (Deaf /Hard of Hearing) programming

• Counseling and Support services

• An Option for full-day Kindergarten (KED)

• Before/After school programming – Franklin Friends

• A Building-wide Positive Behavior Support Program

• A Focus on Character Education – Franklin’s Core Virtues

• Our School Theme  -  Patriot  P R I D E  School Wide

• Student Outreach and Service projects

• An Active community garden

• Single grade, self-contained classrooms

• A Computer lab with Student Support and Science support in classrooms.

• One-to-One computing in all 3rd – 5th Grade Classrooms

• Wireless mobile netbooks

• SMART Boards in every classroom

• Classroom computer stations

• Document cameras and projectors in every classroom

• Regular library/media opportunities

• A Strong performing arts program, including highly qualified art, music and physical education teachers