2022-513-E-Arts Commission-ESTES HILLS ELEMENTARY PTA-2022-23 arts grant

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Organization Description Founded in 1958, Estes Hills Elementary School is one of the oldest 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 ev ery day. In the current academic year (2021-22), Estes Hills Elementary serv es 366 children from kindergarten through fifth grade. The school has 21 traditional classrooms and one behav ior support class, and offers programs in Exceptional Education, Gifted Education, Head Start preschool, and English as a Second Language. Our student body is ev enly div ided along gender lines (50% Male / 50% Female) and has a div erse racial composition: W hite (54%), Hispanic (14%), Black (14%), Asian (10%), and Multi-racial (8%). Estes Hills has 23 traditional classroom teachers; 100% are fully licensed. W e hav e a div erse staff which is 26% Black, 66% W hite, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Multi-racial; in terms of gender, the staff is 14% Male, 69% Female, and 2% Non-binary. 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 ev ents, including in 2021-22 a v irtual art exhibit, a v irtual v isit from NC Central Univ ersity’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and a 4th grade field trip to the NC Symphony Orchestra in Raleigh. Prior to COVID, we had sev eral choral and recorder performances by students per year, “family art nights” where students could help paint decorations for school ev ents such as the Book Fair, a French café in which all students ordered in French and sampled French foods, and a French poetry declamation; we hope to bring many of these activ ities back in future years. The arts are aliv e and well at Estes Hills, but these efforts largely depend on parent donations and v olunteer hours, in the absence of funding. The mission of the Estes Hills PTA is to serv e the whole community of the school - the students, teachers, staff and families - by prov iding necessary resources to support the highest quality educational env ironment possible. The PTA is comprised of parent v olunteers (Executiv e Board is 83% Female / 17% Male; 83% W hite / 17% Black) and seeks to promote the cultural arts in education by bringing in professional artists to perform at our school. These performances both educate and inspire the students to undertake their own artistic pursuits. DocuSign Envelope ID: D8EED1F8-7850-4F19-8AEC-27A73E4A9C10