Orchard Elementary School

At Orchard Elementary we are motivated by this belief: students and their families hold the power to reinvent themselves and their world.[i] They must be given the opportunity to develop a strong sense of self, a commitment to social responsibility and the academic agility needed to improve themselves and their community. Education should not be the repository of the status quo. Rather, it should be an instrument for freedom, teaching students how to deal effectively with the world and to help transform it.  

We believe in the power of the individual and the power of community. We provide rigorous academics that stress flexibility of thought as well as a social-emotional approach that emphasizes empathy amongst all members of our school community. We know that emotional intelligence is strongly correlated to success in life, both personally and professionally. We believe that the best students are complete humans.

[i] Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed