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1571 East 1300 South Principal: Shauna Carl |
Uintah Elementary School has served families in the historic Harvard/Yale neighborhood for almost 100 years. Workers cleared land for Uintah Elementary back in 1915. In 1993, the original structure was demolished to make way for a new building which continues to stand as an anchor in the community.
Facts About Uintah
- The teacher/pupil ratio in grades K-3 is approximately 1-to-22 and 1-to-28 in grades 4-6.
- The magical unicorn is our mascot. Our school colors are purple and white.
- Uintah remains one of the state’s top schools, with exemplary test scores.
Uintah Highlights
- Our PTA and parent involvement is second to none. Volunteers bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience to help sharpen and expand young minds. Volunteers are used in a variety of ways, ranging from working with individual students to whole class music and art lessons. Our high level of parent involvement reflects the high value placed on education.
- Our Hands-On Science program is offered to students in grades 3-6. The program includes a wide variety of physical science experiments, such as chemistry and electricity. Life science experiments in fifth and sixth grade also include dissection. We also have Hands-On Science enrichment lessons for our K-2 classrooms.
- Uintah is a Gold Medal School. We continue to maintain our platinum status!
- Our faculty has worked with the State Office of Education to design positive behavior support for our students. We explicitly teach and reinforce expectations and have positive behavior support in place, such as U Club and our Ultimate Unicorn Treasure Tower. We also have additional interventions, such as Think Time and the U Win program.
- We are an Artstream school. The arts are integrated across the curriculum.
- Two sixth-grade classrooms are involved with the Enriched Technology Classrooms project. These teachers received extensive training to help them integrate technology. There is one computer for every two students.
- Integrating technology is a professional development focus for our school. All classrooms have an interactive white boards and LCD projectors. We also have carts with netbooks that can be used in classrooms.
- We continue to work with Community Education to offer both Kindergarten Enrichment and Extended Day programs.
This page was last modified
October 25, 2011