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Macy School Profile
Macy is located at the base of La Habra Heights and is one mile from the most northern end of Beach Blvd. in the city of La Habra. Macy is one of five elementary schools in Lowell Joint School District. All Lowell Joint schools feed into Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate School.
The student make-up at Macy School shows the following percentages to be represented on our campus: 63% Caucasian, 30% Hispanic, 4% Asian American, and 3% Other. Macy has an average enrollment of 500 students and is currently operating 21 self-contained classrooms that span kindergarten through sixth grade. All classes in first through third grade are 20:1 in student to teacher ratio and both the kindergarten and first grade run split or "staggered" sessions of Early Bird and Late Bird student groups.
The campus has one fourth through sixth grade Special Day Class as well as a Resource Specialist and Speech and Language Specialist who serve all qualifying students. Every student at Macy participates in weekly visits to the library, which boosts a ratio of 20:1 library books per child, and first through sixth graders receive computer lab instruction once a week in a fully equipped lab. Teachers provide weekly music instruction to every class, and once a quarter a trained art specialist gives art instruction to the classes on our campus.
Our campus provides categorical services for qualifying students in the Gifted and Talented Program. Other students who qualify may also receive intervention services through the Reading Assistance Program (funded by categorical school improvement monies). Macy’s population of English Language Learners is ‘small and scattered’. Although Macy does not receive categorical monies for English Language Learner students on campus, the district supports us with a part-time English Language Learner aide who sees qualifying students each week to help them develop their English skills.
Macy is proud to offer a well-established and highly respected Character Education Program that involves both home and school components. Teachers in kindergarten through sixth grade connect monthly themes and parents are encouraged to use the ideas found in their parent handbook on Character Education. At the end of every month, students are recognized at the SOM/VIP awards ceremony for making character count. Student names of Character Education recipients are posted in the monthly PTA newsletter The Eagle Eye and in the school display cases.
Every teacher implements the lessons found in the Patriotic Guide where the values of social responsibility and good citizenship are emphasized daily. While fostering a strong appreciation of the great heritage of America, students also become aware that they are part of a diverse global community, rich with cultural variety. The purpose of the guide is to instill in our children the richness of our American heritage in an ongoing and monthly format. Even the current events of September 11th, 2001 are now addressed with honor and reverence at the beginning of the school year.
The strong and effective staff at Macy School is valued as knowledgeable and energetic individuals who continue to excel in their professional requirements. The teachers work under an umbrella of collaboration and share ideas and strategies with enthusiasm. The teachers are mandated to meet once a week in grade level teams so that the core curriculum is consistent between classrooms. However, on any given day (including weekends), a visitor to Macy will find the teachers meeting and discussing grade level planning. Teachers at Macy are sensitive to the whole child and provide an optimum learning environment that is warm and nurturing, well organized and managed, stimulating and exciting.
Aware that the school is a microcosm of the larger community, the Macy staff and families conscientiously strive toward building lasting school-community relations. Macy has an ongoing an active partnership with: The La Habra Police Department, The Whittier Police Department, The La Habra Fire Department, The La Habra Heights Fire Department, The La Habra Mayor’s Task Force, The Kiwanis Club, The Daughters of the American Revolution, Albertson’s Supermarket, The Whittier Area Credit Union, Mervyns, Burger King, and Islands restaurant. Community members share their expertise, time, and talents as volunteers while students participate in various community-based activities. This interaction emphasizes the public’s responsibility for education, while reinforcing in students their role in American society.
Macy Mission Statement
Macy Elementary School is a Kindergarten through Sixth Grade learning center where the administration, faculty, students, parents, and the surrounding community share in the exciting challenge of preparing our youth for their paths of tomorrow.
Macy is rooted in the stable traditions of American educational philosophies and ideologies. Our Macy family reaches toward the future with a determination to produce capable, confident, and innovative citizens for the new century. We meet this goal by providing every student with the opportunity, resources, and skills they need to be successful. The Macy staff and parent community work together everyday to see that all children are developing to their fullest academic, intellectual, physical, personal, and social-emotional potentials.
At Macy Elementary School We Believe That …
- Students will be held accountable for their learning; teachers will be held accountable for their instruction; administrators will be held accountable for protecting and safeguarding the students and staff, the core curriculum, and the structural integrity of the campus facilities
- All students will make positive contributions to the learning process
- All students are capable of being self-starters and independent learners
- Upon mastery of the core curriculum, all students shall take risks and meet new challenges head-on by applying what they have learned in their studies
- 100% of students will demonstrate proficiency on the California standards by the state target date of 2014
- All students shall be provided a broad range of opportunities to be leaders among their peers
- Social and moral responsibilities are demonstrated through good citizenship and strong character and students must possess these characteristics everyday
- All students shall develop an awareness of the diverse global community of which they are a part
- The Macy faculty works best when they collaborate and share ideas on all instructional, structural, and humanistic components of school programming
- The Macy faculty shall practice life-long learning and become proficient in all domains of learning and curriculum
- Teachers must provide a safe and inviting classroom environment that promotes the optimum learning experience
- Parents and family support systems are critical to our success and the partnership between home and school will only thrive in an ‘open-campus environment’
- Macy is a microcosm of the larger community and as such, it is our duty to strive for stronger school-community relations
- Sound management and flexibility are keys to forward progress
- Education is an on-going process
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