Strengths
The El Dorado Middle School CARES is a well established program with strong support from our community partners. We offer great student opportunities such as a very strongly supported sports program and a student service learning leadership program. We have a very diverse staff with a large variety of talents and interests.
Challenges
The challenges we face are maintaining ongoing student enrollment and retention. We hope to strengthen the alignment to the school day and staff and also face the challenge of staff retention and training, especially in classroom management, leadership and motivation.
Programs for Students and Families
After School Programming includes:
Homework Help, Nutrition and Physical Fitness Education, Arts and Crafts, Intermural Sports, Friday Night Live Mentoring, Student Leadership and Special Interest Clubs (Art, Film and Athletics).
Snack Programming includes:
Daily nutritional snack provided in partnership with Food Services Department and the USDA.
Links to the School Day
- Representative of CARES attends faculty meetings.
- Informal and formal means of communication in place between CARES staff and school day teachers.
- CARES staff sends bi-monthly progress reports to school-day teachers.
Description of Homework Assistance Programs:
- Homework Help: 1 hour of daily homework assistance 4 days per week by CARES staff.
- Assistance with homework and assignments by regular school day teacher, Kellie Spencer, for designated special needs students.
- Students have access to most textbooks and supplies needed to complete homework assignments.
Description of Enrichment Programs:
- Enrichment Opportunities: 1 hour structured enrichment or recreation. Programming includes: Intermural Sports, Student Leadership and Special Interest Clubs (Art, Film and Athletics).
- Nutrition and Fitness Education: 4 hours a week of nutrition education, cooking classes and physical fitness activity promotion.
- Friday Night Live: Students participate in mentoring and drug/alcohol education each week lead by the Center for Human Development staff and trained high school volunteers. Structured activities and discussions keep students interested, engaged and well educated.
- ASP Film Society: Each week, students in our Film Society watch a different type of film. Projects, discussions and film reviews follow each film. Students are exposed to various documentaries, classics as well as current releases.
- Extreme Team Sports: Twice a week students participate in team sports activities. Lead by our staff, games of flag football, basketball, soccer, softball, dodge ball and more are carried out on our blacktop and large field.
- The Artists Studio: Students have the opportunity to expand their creative talents through drawing, painting, clay work, sculpting, cartooning and more.
Description of Peer Resources:
- High school Volunteers from Concord High are qualified students who enjoy assisting our staff and students throughout the program day. Volunteers assist with homework, enrichment activities and overall supervision.
Who We Serve
Number of Students served: 132
Male: 46%
Female: 54%
Free & Reduced Lunch: 36%
English Learner: 10%
Special Education: 12%
Demographics
White: 56%
Latino: 24%
African American: 10%
Asian: 1%
Pacific Islander: 0.8%
How We Serve
Staff to student ratio: 1:20
Number of credentialed staff: 1
Number of volunteers: 5
Number of CARES staff: 7
Number of subcontractors: 0
Community Partners
