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DocuSign Envelope ID:06711178-0E3F-4541-A834-A91 FC422F4D1 <br /> Carrboro Elementary School Arts in Education Application <br /> School Profile <br /> Carrboro Elementary School (CES) has been serving PreK-5th grade students in the heart of Carrboro, <br /> NC for over 50 years. The school began as a community based school and continues in this tradition. <br /> The walk zone is large and the school participates in annual events to support walking and biking to <br /> school. Classes take walking field trips to local businesses and surrounding parks and natural areas. <br /> CES families and staff create inclusive events for the school community such as the Taste of Carrboro, <br /> where families share foods from their diverse cultures and countries, and our popular annual school fair. <br /> CES also has a strong parent organization, RISE (Radical Intervention to Support Education)that brings <br /> people together to discuss race relations and other social issues through Socratic seminars. Group <br /> leaders facilitate discussion groups for both adults and children to discuss an article about race together. <br /> CES takes pride in our exceptional school community and offers a number of distinctive features and <br /> programs including a Dual Language (DL) program and a focus on developmentally appropriate <br /> practices of educating the whole child. The DL program is an English-Spanish immersion program with <br /> the goal of bilingual/biliteracy and multiculturalism by the time students exit elementary school. The <br /> program is fully implemented with 2-3 classes at each grade level PreK-5. Current Kindergartners enter <br /> the program through a magnet model. New to DL classes this year is a bilteracy model which requires <br /> the strategic use of Spanish and English to plan for and enable students to use reading, writing, listening, <br /> P 9 p 9, g� 9, <br /> and speaking for a wide range of purposes, in two languages. <br /> In 2016-2017, Carrboro Elementary School is serving approximately 497 students PreK-5 with the <br /> demographics as below for grades K-5. <br /> Subgroup Number % of school population <br /> Total 497 100% <br /> White 278 56% <br /> Black 25 5% <br /> Hispanic 154 31% <br /> American Indian 1 .2% <br /> Asian 14 3% <br /> Multi-Racial 25 5% <br /> ESL (English as 2nd Lang.) 70 14% <br /> EC (Exceptional Children) 35 7% <br /> AIG (Academically& 40 8% <br /> Intellectually Gifted) <br /> EDS (Economically 32 6.4% <br /> Disadvantaged) <br /> Male 244 49% <br /> Female 253 51% <br />