Keller Elementary School (4530)
3730 EAST MONTEBELLO DRIVE
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80918
359
Total Students Served
Pre-K - Grade 5
School District:
Colorado Springs 11 (1010)
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About Keller Elementary School (4530)
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Keller Elementary School
2025-2026
Helen Keller Elementary School has been open since 1971, serving the northeast side of Colorado Springs. As of the 2024- 2025 school year Keller is now a Title 1 school. Keller is a Capturing Kids' Hearts (CKH) school focusing on relationships, positive affirmations, and community building. We continue to offer preschool through fifth grade academic programs along with special education services, gifted and talented services, Take Flight (a reading therapy program), CLDE (Culturally and Linguist…
ically Diverse Education) services, and an extensive approach to educating the whole student through art, music, physical education, band, orchestra, and the integration of technology (one to one devices) within our student's learning experiences. Advanced classes are offered to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. We offer robust after school activities including cross country, basketball, soccer, football, Prodigy, multi-cultural, crafts, cooking, science, pottery, origami, coding, dance, guitar, Spirit Singers, the Junior Optimist Octagon International (JOOI), Battle of the Books, Liberty Day, Lego, and Rube Goldberg clubs. Every autumn, our fifth graders attend Camp Elim in Divide, Colorado, to work on team building, hands-on application of academic standards, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities, and exploration of the world around them. Throughout the year, our academic experiences are enhanced by our many school programs and traditions including, but not limited to: Safety Town, the Keller Carnival, winter and spring band and orchestra concerts, a winter and spring drama and music performances, Dr. Seuss Day, Skate City nights, Track and Field Day, Fun Run, Senior Walk, Cardboard Challenge, Art Show, Share the Love, Bingo for Books, family block party, and grandparent breakfast. Keller has a strong, active PTA that supports all students, staff, and school initiatives. We also have many volunteers that come in weekly to support our students. We offer field trips to UCCS (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) and DU (University of Denver) for families. Keller actively welcomes community partnerships as well. This year, we are continuing to work with Challenger Learning Center, Space Foundation, Academy Optimist Club, Kiwanis Club for BUG (Bringing Up Grades) awards, Austin Bluffs Community Church, and Rotary Club. Due to our highly professional Keller staff, strong CLDE program, and many enrichment opportunities, many families choose to permit (46% permit rate 2023-24) into Keller over their home schools.     We are a STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading Therapy, Engineering, Arts and Math) academy as of the 2023 school year. A curriculum map has been created to include the D11 Graduate Profile, Quarterly Overviews, Colorado State Standards, and interests from students. There are eight schoolwide STREAM themes that will be addressed in all classes daily. Students will participate in experiential learning, college visits, interaction with professionals in STREAM careers, and self-choice activities. Monthly parent events will be offered to showcase student learning.       The Keller staff has been awarded multiple grants to support STREAM activities for all grade levels. T. Rowe Price Grant - $5000 for Challenger Programs (Planetarium PreK-3, Magic Planet PreK-3, E Missions 4th grade, and on site Moon based missions 5th grade) Challenger Mini Grant - $500 (STEAM) Next Generation Pipeline School: Professional Development for staff (no monetary amount).   Elementary students are scheduled into a homeroom class where all core subject areas are taught kindergarten through second grade. The exception is in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, advanced classes are offered for students who have shown mastery. Teachers may flexibly group students according to academic need, and some groups may receive small group instruction with another teacher either within the grade level or across grade level. Students who are identified as performing below grade level receive supplemental small group reading and math intervention in addition to the classroom instruction. All students are grouped by standardized data into intervention groups. Every student participates in an intervention group daily. Data is collected bi- weekly and the groups are flexible. Since the 2022-23 school year, Keller extended their school day by 30 minutes. Likewise, students who are identified as gifted and talented receive additional enrichment opportunities within or outside of the homeroom classroom. All students are scheduled to participate in specials classes to include vocal music, PE, art, and engineering lab. Parents may choose to have their 4th or 5th grade student participate in instrumental music instruction within the school day.    The parents/guardians of all students who enroll in District 11 fill out enrollment paperwork that includes questions about the family's living situation. If parents/guardians indicate that they are living in a potentially McKinney-Vento eligible situation, an enrollment follow-up letter is given to the family to gather further information. Both the enrollment form and the follow-up letter are faxed to the Title I office for a determination of McKinney-Vento status. Schools are notified either way (eligible or not eligible).    In the event that a family becomes eligible for McKinney-Vento during the school year, school secretaries/data processors/registrars/liaisons are trained to inform parents/guardians of their right to remain at that school, regardless of where the family is currently living, with district-provided transportation, if the residence is outside the school of origin's attendance areas or in a transported zone.    A team composed of our building leadership team, School Accountability Committee members, and PTA members met to analyze data and develop the Unified School Improvement Plan.
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