General Wolfe Elementary School
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| General Wolfe Elementary School | |
| Address | |
| 245 South Wolfe Street Baltimore, Maryland, 21231, United States |
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| Information | |
| School number | 23 |
| School district | Baltimore City Public School System |
| Superintendent | Nancy Grasmick |
| Principal | Christopher Mark Hornbeck Gaither |
| Vice principal | Renata Plummer |
| School type | Public |
| Grades | Pre K - 5 |
| Language | English |
| Area | Urban |
| Enrollment | 135 (2006) |
General Wolfe Elementary School is a neighborhood public school in Baltimore, Maryland. General Wolfe Elementary School is named after James Wolfe an officer in the British Army. General Wolfe Elementary School is a unique school in the Baltimore City Public School System. Currently, this neighborhood is home to a large Latino population from Mexico and Central America. For this reason, the school provides English as a Second Language education to nearly fifty percent (50%) of its students.
While there has been a public school on the current site of General Wolfe Elementary School since the late 1800s, the current building and school was built in the mid-1970s.
Until the 2005-2006 school year General Wolfe Elementary School did not met state academic goals. As a result the school was placed on a State Restructuring List. After the arrival of many new instructional and administrative personnel in the 2005-2006 school year General Wolfe Elementary School met every academic and non-academic goal set by the State of Maryland and achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in accordance with national legislation. [1]
Early in the 2006-2007 academic year the General Wolfe Elementary School community submitted an application to become a Conversion Public Charter School in Baltimore City. On December 12, 2006 the Board of Education of Baltimore City approved the application to allow General Wolfe Elementary School to convert to a Public Charter School. This will allow the school more control over curricular, financial, personnel issues and professional development. As a conversion charter school the school will maintain a geographic enrollment zone that will allow any student living in that zone to attend the school. Any empty seats after all zone students were enrolled will be open to any student in Baltimore City as chosen through a lottery process. General Wolfe Elementary School is the first school nationally to attempt a charter school solution as a response to poor academic performance under the No Child Left Behind act.
The climate and culture of the school have changed in the past year. [2] The conversion to a Public charter School enjoys the support of all the different stakeholders in the community, including the administration, staff and faculty, parents, community associations and businesses. The approval of the charter school status paves the way for General Wolfe Elementary School to open in August 2007 as one of the newest Baltimore City Public Charter Schools, Wolfe Street Academy.
