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New Dawn Elementary School

8914 163rd Street, Jamaica, NY, 11432-0114 -

School Notes Overview:

A New Dawn Elementary and Pre-school provides exciting learning opportunities from Pre-school through 6th Grade. Our traditional school calendar runs from September to June. A New Dawn also offers full-day summer programs from July through August. The diverse faculty work together to provide a delineated scope for curriculum and teaching in all areas of early education. We establish guidelines for expectations and curriculum development. We also provide resources and materials and collaborative planning for program implementation, and we support performance-based assessment. We claim the responsibility to prepare students with the foundation for enlightened citizenry and the love for lifelong learning. A New Dawn fosters a forum to strengthen language arts, building concepts in literary skills and critical thinking strategies. This is developed in all areas of the narrative language, maintaining, and transferring to form a basis for language acquisition, as well as for social and academic achievement in English. Emphasis is placed on utilizing students' prior knowledge, learning style, and cultural background as building blocks for instruction. Our effective instruction allows students to capitalize on their existing linguistic, academic, cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic strengths....

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School Overview:

	New Dawn Elementary School
Religious Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Grades Offered	Grades Prekindergarten - 5
County	Queens County, NY
Student Body
Total Students	59 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(NY) School Avg.
% Students of Color	100%	36%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 36 students
	Kind - 10 students
	Grade 1 - 6 students
	Grade 2 - 2 students
	Grade 4 - 3 students
	Grade 5 - 2 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	4 teachers
	This School	(NY) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:15	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	180 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	7 hours	6 hours

School Notes:

A New Dawn Elementary and Pre-school provides exciting learning opportunities from Pre-school through 6th Grade. Our traditional school calendar runs from September to June. A New Dawn also offers full-day summer programs from July through August. The diverse faculty work together to provide a delineated scope for curriculum and teaching in all areas of early education. We establish guidelines for expectations and curriculum development. We also provide resources and materials and collaborative planning for program implementation, and we support performance-based assessment. We claim the responsibility to prepare students with the foundation for enlightened citizenry and the love for lifelong learning. A New Dawn fosters a forum to strengthen language arts, building concepts in literary skills and critical thinking strategies. This is developed in all areas of the narrative language, maintaining, and transferring to form a basis for language acquisition, as well as for social and academic achievement in English. Emphasis is placed on utilizing students' prior knowledge, learning style, and cultural background as building blocks for instruction. Our effective instruction allows students to capitalize on their existing linguistic, academic, cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic strengths.
Profile last updated: 02/18/2009

School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (11432)	School Zip (11432)	(NY) State Average
Population (Approximate)	57,045 people	18,975,234 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	35%	32%
Population Average Age	35 years old	36 years old
Average Household size	3.0 persons	2.5 persons
Median Household Income	$42,414	$46,766
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	3.5 rooms	5.0 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	59 years old	56 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	37% / 63%	53% / 47%