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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
Points of
distinction
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Voluntary uniform policy
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Full-day prekindergarten and
kindergarten programs offered
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Before- and after-school child care
provided
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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.
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Recipient of Pathfinder Award for
Outstanding Educational Achievement
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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
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Thursday, March 1
-- Prekindergarten lottery applications
available
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Friday, March 2
-- Third-quarter interim marking period ends
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Friday, March 9
-- Parent-teacher conference day, early
dismissal
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Wednesday, March 14
-- All-City Band Concert, Stephen and Harriet
Myers Middle School, 7 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 21
-- All-City Orchestra Concert, William S.
Hackett Middle School, 7 p.m.
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Tuesday, March 27
-- School picture day
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Wednesday, March 28
-- All-City Chorus Concert, Stephen and Harriet
Myers Middle School, 7 p.m.
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Friday, March 30
-- Professional Development Day, no school
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Friday, March 30
-- Deadline to register for magnet elementary
school and prekindergarten lotteries, 3 p.m.
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Saturday, March 31
-- New York State School Musical Association
festival, William S. Hackett Middle School, 9
a.m.-5 p.m.
News and information
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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)
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Click
here for a calendar of events for the
2011-12 school year.
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Click here to visit the City School District of
Albany's online Photo Gallery.
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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
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