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School 5
118 Lockwood Avenue • Yonkers, NY 10701
(914) 376-8320

  • Grades Pre-K – 8
  • Modern Red Schoolhouse Design
  • Core Knowledge
  • Government/Citizenship

The Theme/Philosophy
Modern Red School House Design

  • School slogan, “Seek the Highest”
  • Rigorous Core Knowledge curriculum, values and democratic principles
  • Technology as a tool to support literacy, critical thinking, and New York State and Yonkers Learning Standards
  • Library contains a computer research center to support in-depth and creative instruction
  • School-wide Instructional Management System individualizes instruction
  • Accelerated Reader, an electronic book club, advances the use of technology
  • Communication, reading, and writing links to instruction

The Partners

This school works closely with:

  • Modern Red Schoolhouse Design
  • Core Knowledge
  • D.A.R.E.
  • Juvenile Law
  • Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts
  • Junior Achievement
  • SMART Program

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