Northridge Elementary School (6406)
555 SOUTH PARK ROAD
HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80126
562
Total Students Served
Pre-K - Grade 6
School District:
Douglas County Re 1 (0900)
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About Northridge Elementary School (6406)
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Northridge Elementary School
2024-2025
Mission: At Northridge, our school community fosters an engaging learning environment that empowers the whole child. We inspire a love for learning by embracing challenges, taking risks, and persevering. Vision: NRE is a place where every child can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. We foster an environment where mistakes are embraced as learning opportunities, empowering students to grow into contributing members of society. Northridge Elementary School is a suburban school located…
in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. It is a neighborhood school serving students from both single family homes in the area and numbers of families who reside in apartment complexes in the area. A large percentage of the school population attend on the basis of open enrollment from other school jurisdictions. The school serves approximately 570 students, Kindergarten to 6th Grade. The school serves students identified with the following ethnicity data: 61.4% White, 15.6% Hispanic/Latino, 12.2 % Asian, 1.8% Black, 8.8% Two or more races. The remaining student ethnicities are represented by students in groups of less than 1% of the school population. The school has 42 different languages spoken for the 24-25 school year. The school hosts a full spectrum of services for students with both IEPs and ALPs, including services for Mild to Moderate and Severe Needs to a Highly Gifted Discovery Program. Students on IEPs account for approximately 10% of the student population while students on ALPs account for approximately 25% of the student population. The school provides on-site mental health services for all students including two full time counselor, a full-time social worker and a school psychologist two days a week. Northridge Elementary provides a comprehensive elementary school core curriculum for students, with a focus on English literacy, maths, social studies and the sciences. The school provides a wheel of daily specials classes for all K-6 students, including Music, PE, Think Tank (using Project Lead the Way), Art, Mandarin and Spanish. The wheel provides both needed release time for teacher planning and enriching opportunities for learning. Student cycle between one or two specials each day and alternate courses over the weeks. While Art, Music, PE, Mandarin, and Think Tank are taught by Certificated teachers, the remaining classes are taught by talented Classified employees. The school maintains a full library, staffed by a classified Librarian. The school has a 1:1 digital platform for students, comprised of iPads, Chromebooks, and two classroom sets of Virtual Reality Goggles to help students explore outside of the building. The school hosts a large number of before and after-school clubs, activities, competitions and events for students. The school program successes are measured by the school and community by its consistently high performance on the State of Colorado's standardized achievement test results. The school hosts one of the center-based programs for Gifted and Talented education in the school district. Parents of students in grades 2 to 6 who believe their child would qualify for this program are eligible to apply through the district application process. Eligibility is conducted annually. Northridge Elementary School emphasizes a full-inclusion approach to educate all students as regular education students in the least restrictive environment. The daily schedule is organized so that specialist and support teachers can push-in to classrooms and deliver specialized instruction whenever possible in this context. Some degree of pull-out instruction is continued as appropriate. The school also has PRIDE, a positive incentive character trait program that is school-wide and part of its Positive Behavior and Intervention Support (PBIS) program in the school. This program is highly effective and complements the use of a Restorative Practice discipline policy in the school. Northridge continually earns the John Irwin Award of Academic Excellence.
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