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Christopher Farms ElementaryBy, Taylor Chappell
Home of the Colts
Dr. Amy Cashwell Mr. Bruce Clarke Principal Assistant Principal
Location2828 Pleasant Acres Dr.Virginia Beach, VA 23453
School Layout
About CFESChristopher Farms Elementary is located in the
Christopher Farms housing development. Their doors opened in September 1997. The school won the Superintendent’s Best-of-the-Beach Award, houses the Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy, and has past all SOL test for five consecutive years. The mission of Christopher Farms Elementary School is to maximize student learning using research-based instructional strategies to prepare their students.
STAFFChristopher Farms Elementary StaffAdministration: TwoOffice: ThreeKindergarten Teachers: Three and two assistantsFirst Grade Teachers: Six Second Grade Teachers: Five Third Grade Teachers: Six Forth Grade Teachers: Six Fifth Grade Teachers: Six Special Education Teachers: Six Assistant Special Education Teachers: Four Resource: Four teachersSpecialist Teachers : Sixteen
5th Grade TeachersMrs. BagnallMrs. GaskinMr. KenisonMrs. MoranMrs. Sulich
Mrs. WaldmanSpecial Education: Ms. Sawyer
Ethnic DiversityAfrican American : 12.1%
American Indian: 0.1%Asian: 4.6%
Caucasian: 70.0%Hispanic: 5.8%
Native Hawaiian: 1.4%Unspecified: 6.0%
Student to teacher ratioPupil-Teacher Ratio(without resource personnel)
Pupil- Teacher Ratio(with resource personal)
K 1 2 3 4 520:1 24:1 20:1 20:1 23:1 19:1
K 1 2 3 4 517:1 19:1 17:1 17:1 19:1 15:1
Spanish Immersion Program The Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy at Christopher Farms
Elementary School, is a program designed to offer students a foreign language class in the elementary school. Christopher Farms has developed the Foreign Language Partial Immersion Academy to provide additional educational choices for students to expand their learning and careers. All Virginia Standards of Learning are still covered in the program.
The curriculum is divided into two sections, one taught in English and the other in Spanish. Mathematics, science, and health are taught by the Spanish language immersion teacher to help them learn numbers and words that are not used in every day language. The grade level language arts and social studies are still taught in English. However, both the language immersion teacher and the grade level teacher work together integrate all the curriculum.