This school does well up against the average LAUSD elementary school. There are some minor flaws in their academic regimen, however the teachers are responsive and most are caring. Administration has never seemed overly courteous, but I do not deal with them often.
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This school is adcademically very strong and balances equally with child's social manners and skills. The teachers are very experienced and understand each child's needs and work with each child and the parent to accompolish the expected standard level. Kids are well trained in kindergarten level to
... Read more meet the challenges of further grades. Also kids are exposed to computers at kidergarten level each class have a computer to explore the topic assigned by the teacher under teacher's supevision. Also here is computer lab where kids are allowed to play educational games like jumpstart and other reading activities. also children have music class where they are taught music for all major religious celebration like christmas etc. Reading and Math are focused right from KG and emphasized at later grades so by 3rd grade each child will be able to read confidently and write grammatically and also add ,subtract and multiply and divide numbers Read less
Posted by a parent on 01/11/06
Center Street is a solid school with a great, supportive community. Parents are very involved, and my children (Kindergarten and 2nd Grade) have had wonderful teachers that are focused on learning. They do have a lot of parties and school events and performances, fields trips, etc., which I'm sure many
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Posted by a parent on 12/27/05
I liked my sons teachers and they did give good feedback and information but I didn't care for lack of consideration when things changed on the schools activities calander which was done by hard copy, I don't get them as I'm not the custodial parent and I believe this could be improved if someone at
... Read more the school could keep the online calander up to date which was not nor was the phone call in system for notification updated properly. This is an administration problem. I was generally ok with the principle but I hadn't had to interface with her to much. Overall I like the atmosphere of the school but I had concern over the computers at this school, they were very outdated which in this day and age is very important for the kids. Read less
Posted by a parent on 08/22/05
School atmosphere is great for children to be educated and grow together. Staff is not very informative regarding program and activities. Not very personal and misleading in some ways. Disappointed with their ideas and relations as far as education being priority rather than pettiness of excluding
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Posted by a parent on 02/23/05
I think Center Street is a wonderful school. I especially like the primary teachers who are caring and supportive.
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Posted by a parent on 01/25/04
We love CSS. The teachers and principals are great in teaching both academics and good values. The school offers a lot of extracurricular activities that go a long way in building kids' self-esteem. There is frequent recognition for participation.
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Posted by a parent on 01/24/04
This is an excellent school for excellent students, but a poor school for children with an learning difficulties. The Principal does not make herself available to parents, but delegates that responsibility to the Asst. Principal. There are some very good teachers and some very bad teachers.
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School Profile for Center Street Elementary School
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Student enrollment:
671
Students per teacher:
20
Full-time teachers:
34
Number of classrooms:
60
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creative and productive thinking, the ability to produce new ideas;
leadership ability, the ability to direct individuals or groups to a common decision or action;
visual and performing arts, special talents in visual art, music, dance, drama, or other related studies;
psychomotor ability, such as practical, spatial, mechanical, and physical skills.
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English as Second Language
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El Segundo schools — Center Street Elementary School is located at 700 Center St, El Segundo CA 90245. 700 Center St is in the 90245 ZIP code in El Segundo, CA The school district for Center Street Elementary School is the El Segundo Unified Sd. Center Street Elementary School is a Public school that serves grade levels PK - 5.
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