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Dapplegray Elementary School |
With this 2009-2010 school year, Dapplegray is celebrating it's tenth year! We are a neighborhood, suburban school situated in the community of Rolling Hills Estates. It serves not only as a powerful learning facility, but also as a center for the surrounding community hosting activities such as scouting, Club soccer, music instruction, and a wealth of other extra curricular activities that take place year round.
One of ten public elementary schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Dapplegray serves a student body of 700. In addition to 29 regular education classes in grades K-5, our school has a Learning Center to help support many students.
Our school population is fairly stable, middle to upper class, with quite a number of former PVPUSD students now in the role of parents and local community leaders. Community members are mainly college-educated , professional, or technically trained individuals.
Dapplegray's staff is a dynamic group of highly supportive of each other and committed to our school goals as teachers and colleagues. Our classroom teachers are supported by a resource program specialist, speech/language pathologist, and psychologist. Additional staff members (media, library, and music specialist) are funded by private support.
Mission Statement
Dapplegray is committed to providing an educational program that will prepare students for the next level of education. Dapplegray believes each child is a gift and therefore is "gifted" in some way. Staff and administration agree that a strong literacy curriculum, balanced and enhanced by core curriculum programs in mathematics, arts, science, history and technology, will best serve our students in the twenty-first century. An important component of our mission of our mission is to implement instructional strategies that will satisfy individual learning needs.