2019-730-E Arts - Estes Hills PTA arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 17D13591-D464-4BA6-903E-B287F59616C0 Organization Founded in 1958, Estes Hills Elementary School is one of the oldest Description schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district. Estes Hills is a neighborhood school in the truest sense, as many students from the surrounding homes walk or bike to school every day. In the current academic year (2018-2019), Estes Hills Elementary serves 474 children from kindergarten through fifth grade. The school has 23 traditional classrooms, and offers programs in Exceptional Education, Gifted Education, Head Start pre-school, and English as a Second Language. Our student body is fairly evenly divided along gender lines (51% Male / 49% Female) and has a diverse racial composition: White (571/6), Hispanic (151/6), African American (101/6), Asian (101/6), and Multi-Racial (81/6). Estes Hills has 23 traditional classroom teachers; 100%are fully licensed, 48% have advanced degrees, and 11 are National Board Certified. Our school offers Art and Music instruction in accordance with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for elementary school students, with a full-time professional in each "specials" discipline: Art, Music, French, and Physical Education (which incorporates dance). These teachers supplement classroom time with extracurricular events including 3 choral performances by students per year, 2 "family art nights" per year where students can help paint decorations for school events such as the Book Fair, a school mural, a French cafe in which all students order in French and sample French foods, and a French poetry declamation held on a weekend in the spring. For the first time, this year, a Drama Club was founded which created its own sets and costumes and performed 3 shows of "The Wizard of Oz" for the community in February. The arts are alive and wells at Estes Hills, but these efforts largely depend on parent donations and volunteer hours, in the absence of funding. The mission of the Estes Hills PTA is to serve the whole community of the school - the students, teachers, staff and families - by providing necessary resources to support the highest quality educational environment possible. The PTA is comprised of parent volunteers (Executive Board is 80%female, 100%White), and seeks to promote the cultural arts in education by bringing professional artists to perform at our school. These performances both educate and inspire the students to undertake their own artistic pursuits. During FY19-20, will No your organization receive operational support funding from the North Carolina Arts Council or the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources? r)mani-7atinn'c PInl RnnIAngni