Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Student:
School:
Term:
Your site visit experience offers you the opportunity to learn how schools operate as a large community promoting the growth of a
learner. School environment is determined by the schools culture, its history, its belief in how to do things and what is worth doing.
Become familiar with the school environment by completing the table below. Accomplish this by using the host schools website, the
Illinois Public K-12 School Rankings based on the Report Card and school personnel interviews.
Demographics
The following elements look at the demographic information of a school.
The demographic information of a school can provide an excellent look at the diversity of the school environment.
What is/are the
Answer
Resource for the Answer: Persons
name and title, document or website.
Current school enrollment
545
Report card
Percentage of various races and ethnicities
Number of males and females as per school
report card
Percent of low income students
92% white
Report card
Report card
Report card
0%
23% meet or exceed PARCC
Report card
Report card
118
Report card
School Organization
The following elements identify various aspects of the organization of the school.
By understanding the school organization, teachers can better plan their lessons and their day.
School Mission Statement
Length of school day for students
8:25-3:23
School website
7:45-4:00
School website
52mins
School website
Report card
School website
teacher
teacher
School website
teacher
teacher
teacher
Teacher
Policies
The following elements provide a greater understanding of the policies that exist in a school environment.
Read and summarize the Schools
yes
Student handbook
digital etiquette policy for students.
Staff credentials to sponsor
Must be an employee or approved by school
teacher
extracurricular activities
board
Philosophy of the school library or
Allowed to come in during study halls and before teacher
learning center
and after school
Study hall policies for students and
Students can only have two study halls if in a
teacher
teachers
sport and get out of P.E.
Lunchroom policies for students and Open campus lunch
teacher
teachers
Hallway policies: during class time
Students have open campus lunches and teachers teacher
and between classes
are in the halls watching over them
School discipline policy
In the hand book and told to students at
Teacher
orientation
Emergency procedure plans (fire,
Yes
Teacher
tornado, evacuation, and lockdown)