Calvert Elementary School
Encyclopedia
Calvert Elementary School is one of 36 public primary schools in the Lincoln Public Schools
school district
of Lincoln
, Nebraska
, USA
. It contains a computer lab
, band room, gym
nasium, library
, and cafeteria
(which doubles as an intramural event center). The recess area outside includes two basketball court
s and a large, raised field with track.
Calvert was once called College View Elementary School, because it is located in Lincoln's College View neighborhood.
Calvert feeds into Pound Middle School
.
s, a playground area, picnic
area and restrooms. A small creek
runs through the park as well.
Lincoln Public Schools
Lincoln Public Schools is the only public school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. It is the second largest of Nebraska's 596 school districts, surpassed only by Omaha Public Schools. LPS educates more than 35,000 students in 57 schools....
school district
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...
of Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
, Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
, USA
United States
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. It contains a computer lab
Computer lab
A computer lab, also known as a computer suite or computer cluster is typically a room which contains many networked computers for public use...
, band room, gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium, library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
, and cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
(which doubles as an intramural event center). The recess area outside includes two basketball court
Basketball court
In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor with tiles at either end. In professional or organized basketball, especially when played indoors, it is usually made out of a wood, often maple, and highly polished...
s and a large, raised field with track.
Calvert was once called College View Elementary School, because it is located in Lincoln's College View neighborhood.
Calvert feeds into Pound Middle School
Pound Middle School
Pound Middle School is one of the eleven middle schools in the Lincoln Public Schools school district. It is located at 4740 South 45th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. It currently in the 2010-2011 school year has approximately 800 students enrolled. It was established in 1963 and was named in...
.
Surroundings
A large community recreation center is attached to Calvert. Calvert is also abutted by Henry Park, a mid-sized city park containing tennis courtTennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
s, a playground area, picnic
Picnic
In contemporary usage, a picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors , ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view and possibly at a public event such as before an open air theatre performance,...
area and restrooms. A small creek
Stream
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
runs through the park as well.
Special programs
- Differentiated Curriculum
- Reading RecoveryReading RecoveryReading Recovery is a school-based, short-term intervention designed for children aged five or six, who are the lowest literacy achievers after their first year of school. These children are often not able to read the simplest of books or even write their own name before the intervention...
- Volunteers in School
- America Reads/Math Counts Tutors
- Character Counts
- Arts Are Basic
- Junior AchievementJunior AchievementJunior Achievement or JA or JA Worldwide is a non-profit youth organization that was founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and senator Winthrop M. Crane. JA focuses on educating kids in K-12 about the free enterprise system...
- TeamMates
- Union CollegeUnion College (Nebraska)Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska is a four-year coeducational college owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Midwest. It opened in 1891.T.R.M...
Work Study Tutors - Pre-Kindergarten/EXCITEProgram
- Soar to Success
- Grant Funded Pre-School
- Math Club
- Community Learning Center
Extracurricular clubs
- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- ChorusChoirA choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
- Band
- ChessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
- Sign languageSign languageA sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's...