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Lucy School

9117 Frostown Road, Middletown, MD, 21769 -

School Notes Overview:

Lucy School is an Arts-Based Primary and Teacher Training Center located on a 17-acre campus complete with pond, waterfall, woodlands with learning trails and fields for running and jumping. The children plant and harvest an organic garden and environmental stewardship is central to our science program. Our arts-based curriculum is designed to promote the transfer of learning between the arts and other subjects. We follow Maryland State Department of Education's Voluntary Curriculum Objectives. ...

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School Overview:

	Lucy School
School Type	Elem. Or Sec. with a Special Program Emphasis
School Membership(s)	National Association for the Education of Young Children
Religious Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Grades Offered	Grades Nursery/Preschool - 2
Year Founded	2002
County	Frederick County, MD
Student Body
Total Students	98 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(MD) School Avg.
% Students of Color	9%	33%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 66 students
	Kind - 19 students
	Grade 1 - 7 students
	Grade 2 - 6 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	14 teachers
% Faculty with Advance Degree	45%
Average Class Size	12
	This School	(MD) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:45	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	185 days	179 days
Hours in School Day for Students	6 hours	6 hours
Finances and Admission
Admission Deadline	None / Rolling
Yearly Tuition Cost	$8,600
Tuition Notes	This is for our 5-day program. Two-day and Three-day program options for preschool and pre-kindergarten. We also offer a before and afterschool program.
% on Financial Aid	16%
Average Financial Aid Grant	$1,000
Acceptance Rate	90%
Head of School	Victoria Brown, Ph.D.
Admissions Director	Victoria Brown, Ph.D.
Admissions Associate	Traci Morris

School Notes:

Lucy School's arts-based curriculum is designed to use the emotional, social, and sensory dimensions of the arts to engage students, encourage critical thinking, and influence development and learning across the curriculum. It connects the content of art to children’s personal experiences and their need to make meaning from the world. Arts-based learning makes the arts an interdisciplinary partner with other subjects and orchestrates higher order thinking using the creative problem solving process. Students are provided rich experiences in the arts and thoughtful integrated curriculum that makes deep structural connections between the arts experiences and other subjects. This enables students to learn both deeply. Arts-based teaching is more hands-on than traditional teaching, offering children more opportunities to experience “living through situations” than they would in a traditional classroom, thereby developing a level of critical thinking and problem solving skills that is not afforded in traditional educational settings. Since the primary grades were established at Lucy School, the majority of children leaving are above grade level in all subject areas. Every child in second grade class has graduated with a fifth grade reading level and higher. This is supported by ample research in the field of arts integration.
Profile last updated: 03/12/2009

In the News:

Lucy School goes green (The Frederick News-Post)
posted on May 1, 2009 at 07:13:01 am
MIDDLETOWN -- The heat is geothermal The insulation is made of old blue jeans and newspapers The floors are cork and bamboo And the paint is not only nontoxic, it's mineral- based

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School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (21769)	School Zip (21769)	(MD) State Average
Population (Approximate)	9,592 people	5,296,486 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	43%	32%
Population Average Age	39 years old	36 years old
Average Household size	2.9 persons	2.5 persons
Median Household Income	$71,056	$56,460
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	7.5 rooms	6.1 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	33 years old	40 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	86% / 14%	65% / 35%