Arbor Hill Elementary School

Prekindergarten-Grade 6

1 Arbor Drive

Albany, NY 12207
Phone: 475-6625
Fax: 475-6627

Web site: http://ahes.albany.k12.ny.us

Rosalind Gaines-Harrell, Principal

E-mail: rgaines-harrell@albany.k12.ny.us

About Arbor Hill Elementary School

Built in 1973, Arbor Hill Elementary School is located on Arbor Drive, across the street from Whitney M. Young Jr. Health Center. A two-year project to renovate the building  was completed in September 2010 and students and families  returned to Arbor Hill Elementary School's familiar 1 Arbor Drive home!

At the new Arbor Hill Elementary, students learn in a modernized facility with new computers in every classroom, walls and doors surrounding every classroom (as opposed to the school's former open-classroom layout), new computer and science labs, a restored indoor atrium and a new heating and cooling system.

Also, thanks to the City of Albany students once again can walk to school across a new pedestrian bridge that spans Manning Boulevard and links the school to Colonie Street, Skyline Apartments and Lark Street.

School times

• Before-school child care begins -- 7:30 a.m.

• Morning drop off is available -- 8 a.m.

• Breakfast begins -- 8:40 a.m.

• School day begins -- 9:05 a.m.

• School day ends -- 3:35 p.m.

• After-school child care ends -- 6 p.m.

Points of distinction

• Voluntary uniform policy

• Full-day prekindergarten and kindergarten programs offered

• Before- and after-school child care provided

• ATLAS community school, meaning that it uses a comprehensive reform design dedicated to improving learning. In ATLAS communities, students, teachers, administrators and families work together to graduate students who exhibit a deep understanding of their world and the habit of living by and with that understanding.

• Recipient of Pathfinder Award for Outstanding Educational Achievement

• Located on extensive grounds surrounded by beautiful landscaping

Upcoming events

• Tuesday, Feb. 7 -- Math exhibitions
• Wednesday, Feb. 8 -- Math exhibitions
• Monday, Feb. 13-Friday, Feb. 17 -- Celebrity readers week
• Monday, Feb. 20-Friday, Feb. 24 -- Winter recess, no school

• Thursday, March 1 -- Prekindergarten lottery applications available

• Friday, March 2 -- Third-quarter interim marking period ends

• Friday, March 9 -- Parent-teacher conference day, early dismissal

• Wednesday, March 14 -- All-City Band Concert, Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School, 7 p.m.

• Wednesday, March 21 -- All-City Orchestra Concert, William S. Hackett Middle School, 7 p.m.

• Tuesday, March 27 -- School picture day

• Wednesday, March 28 -- All-City Chorus Concert, Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School, 7 p.m.

• Friday, March 30 -- Professional Development Day, no school

• Friday, March 30 -- Deadline to register for magnet elementary school and prekindergarten lotteries, 3 p.m.

• Saturday, March 31 -- New York State School Musical Association festival, William S. Hackett Middle School, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

News and information

• Junior Achievement gets a boost -- Thanks to a grant from the National Grid Foundation, the 13 Junior Achievement programs at Arbor Hill Elementary School will continue through the end of the school year. For first-graders in Joanne Meagher's class, Junior Achievement means a 40-minute session once a week with community volunteer Willie Mae Spencer. There, students learn how jobs provide for a family's needs and wants, how each person contributes to the well-being of a family and the types of jobs each family member has. (MORE)

• Click here for a calendar of events for the 2011-12 school year.

• Click here to visit the City School District of Albany's online Photo Gallery.

• Click here to download the summer 2011 edition of Arbor Hill Elementary School's newsletter, No Limits

Absence from school

If your child is absent for school for any reason, call the school at 475-6625 during the morning and provide a written excuse when your child returns to school