Adams Elementary School

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950 West 22nd Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405

(541) 790-5000
Fax: (541) 790-5005
School web site | Staff List
Grades:
K-5
Enrollment:
178
Principal:
Pamela Irvine <irvine_p@4j.lane.edu>
Secretary:
Cheryl Lindsey <lindsey@4j.lane.edu>
School Hours:
8:25 - 2:35
Early Release: Wednesdays 1:35
Breakfast Menu | Lunch Menu
Middle School Region: Arts and Technology Academy
Roosevelt
Spencer Butte
High School Region: Churchill
Mission Statement:
We have a commitment to learning about and respecting a diverse, interconnected and sustainable world.
Program Description:
Adams Elementary emphasizes inclusion, sustainability with a global focus, and high expectations. Adams has earned the top rating of "outstanding" on the Oregon state report card. Our achievement gap is one of the smallest in the district. We focus on all aspects of literacy, along with the development of community. Adams is committed to embedding diversity-enhancing experiences into the school day and the curriculum. We are a school with active parent involvement and strong linkages to our Friendly-area neighborhood.
School Highlights:
  • Our guiding principles are diversity, sustainability, green/ecology, multiculturalism, community/family/neighborhood and interconnections • Before- and after-school care and the free ACE after-school program on-site
  • Peer Mediation program; Spanish classes sponsored by the City of Eugene; PE instruction; 2006 Oregon School Librarian of the Year on staff; Title I; SMART reading program
  • Each classroom teacher uses a SMART Board, a document camera and a laptop during instruction; students complete projects using laptops, hand-held computers and document cameras
  • Adams is designated as a merit-level Oregon Green School; winner of the 2007 Trashbusters award; MECCA art and recycling programs; composting program
  • Field-based science curriculum; a focus on writing and reading instruction that recognizes different learning styles; English Language Learner (ELL) services; Spanish
School Improvement Goals:
  • To decrease our carbon footprint through adoption of sustainable practices
  • To increase reading and math literacy as measured by both standardized tests and classroom assessments
  • To integrate cultural competency at all levels of the school, and into all relationships within the school
  • To improve the functional ICT (information and communication technology) knowledge and skills of all students
Other Information:
Adams Elementary School is committed to sustainable practices and outreach. Adams is designated as an Oregon Merit Level Green School for resource conservation and waste reduction, also winning the Lane County Trashbusters award. We strive to be good stewards of the environment. Our school employs the Oregon librarian of the year, and we are the only elementary school in 4J with a licensed librarian. All students receive music, physical education, media, and technology classes each week. Each classroom has a SMART Board, projector and document camera. We are a democratic learning community, and have declared ourselves a Human Dignity Zone where students and staff commit to the intrinsic worth of each individual.
School Colors:
Green

ODE school report cards and AYP reports



Last updated on January 11, 2010 - 7:09am