Centinela
Elementary School

155 W. Kelso Street Inglewood, CA 90301
Tel # 310-680-5440 

Major Achievements
• Teachers engaged in continual staff development with focus groups on increasing student achievement, improving student discipline, enhancing campus safety, and incorporating a technology center and a library media program.

• Students have biweekly visits to the library and are encouraged to read grade-level-appropriate materials. They also receive one-on-one assistance in selecting materials and in researching the reference materials to complete projects and reports.

• Our school participated in the Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program. Through the RIF program students are able to select three new books to add to their home library.

• Students are also given the opportunity to demonstrate newly acquired reading/comprehension skills by creating poems and making posters and artwork.

• We hosted the Scholastic Book Fair and Read Across America programs to promote literacy.

• We integrated technology across the curriculum in the classroom and in the computer lab. Teachers used technology to create lesson plans and to interpret assessment data. In the upper grades, the teachers used PowerPoint software and projectors to present lessons. Students used computers to complete homework assignments. We were excited to receive a technology grant to purchase laptop computers for school business use.

• We are using a comprehensive, standards-based curriculum that is selected by the district and aligned directly with California State Content Standards.

• We increased the number of support programs for students. Programs such as afterschool tutoring, afterschool intervention, intersession, and the ASES program are provided for students whose state standardized test results designated them as performing Below Basic or Far Below Basic.

• We have formed a data team of six teachers, the school’s administrative team, and one district staff member. The team’s responsibilities include collecting student data from district-administered tests, classroom mid-year and end-of-year tests, weekly lesson assessments, and California Standards Tests (CST) results;
examining the data to identify targeted learners for intervention programs and determining the need for professional growth among teachers.

• We conducted parent workshops, increased PTA membership, recruited parents to use our parents center to improve their students’ academic performance, and created new programs that promote parent literacy and English language development skills.

• Last year, eight teachers enrolled and received their Master’s Degree.