Park Terrace Elementary School - Spring Lake Park Schools

Who We Are

High expectations.
High achievement for all.
No excuses.

Welcome to Park Terrace Elementary School in Spring Lake Park! We are one of three elementary schools serving Spring Lake Park Schools' students in grades preK-4.

Innovative and Personalized Learning

Each student at Park Terrace Elementary School is known by name, strength, interest and need, leading to personalized student work and learning experiences.

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Focus on Literacy

All elementary students in Spring Lake Park Schools spend 120 minutes each day on reading instruction with 60 minutes in smaller groups focused on specific student needs.

STEM and Real-world Learning

We continue to expand our STEM learning for each student in Spring Lake Park Schools. We are redesigning traditional learning experiences and transforming our classrooms to help our students become creators, designers, inventors, thinkers and leaders.

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Career and College Readiness and 12 x 12

We are collectively committed to designing engaging learning experiences that lead to each student earning 12 college credits by the end of 12^th grade.

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Low Class Sizes

One of our top priorities is to maintain low class sizes. Our class sizes at elementary grade levels are among the lowest in the metro area and among neighboring districts.

State of the Art Facilities

Many portions of Park Terrace have been redesigned to provide flexible learning environments that allow teachers to meet the varied needs and interests of students.

Panther Pride

Amazing things are happening every day at Park Terrace Elementary School – learn more about our Park Terrace stories and voices.

Why I’m #SLPPantherProud

Hear from our staff, students and community about the amazing things that are happening in Spring Lake Park Schools every day.

Park Terrace teacher Justine Hryhorysak laughing with a student

Justine Hryhorysak (opens in new window/tab)

Teacher, Park Terrace

In order to personalize learning, you really have to think about what this child need and every child needs love and compassion and encouragement. I let them know that it's totally okay to do whatever they need to do to continue to move forward because you can't stop until you're proud.

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English Learner Specialist, Park Terrace

I personalize learning by building relationships with each student I work with. It is incredibly important for students to have their unique perspective seen as an asset to the learning community.

Yesica Garay-Muñoz (opens in new window/tab)

Parent, Park Terrace

Park Terrace is a wonderful place. I love that when you come in its so welcoming.

Sam Miller

Teacher, Park Terrace

I joined Spring Lake Park Schools because of the incredible students here and the wealth of experiences and background knowledge they bring with them to school. I am constantly in awe of the connections they make and share from their lives.

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Superintendent Ronneberg smiling with three students

Planning for the 2020-21 school year

As we continue to live with COVID-19 in our communities, planning the approach to the 2020-21 school year requires managing an evolving set of complexities. While we all hope school buildings are able to open, safely, for students in September, planning is happening now to ensure learning continues in a variety of scenarios.

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Trimester 3 Report Cards: Reporting on Student Learning During COVID-19 and Extended Flexible Learning

Trimester 3 report cards will be available beginning Wednesday, June 10. Because all of Trimester 3 occurred in a flexible learning environment, we wanted to provide a guide specific to Trimester 3 report cards for students in grades K-5 and 6-12 and instructions for accessing report cards

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Two students holding up Extended Flexible Learning Signs in English and Spanish and smiling

Learning our way through a pandemic

As Minnesota reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 6, we were headed into spring break. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about resilience, flexibility, creativity and the extraordinary things we can accomplish as Spring Lake Park Schools. As we look ahead to finishing the year in extended flexible learning, we will embrace this as an opportunity with optimism and confidence despite the sadness of not being together.

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Weekend Food Pack program provides 1,600 packs of food to families

As school buildings continue to be closed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Spring Lake Park Schools has been feeding children through meal distribution at 10 sites throughout the community. During the Friday meal distribution, the Spring Lake Park Schools Panther Foundation has provided more than 1,600 Weekend Food Packs to families over the last several weeks.

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Learning to resume March 30-April 30, 2020 using extended flexible learning

Spring Lake Park Schools will move to an extended flexible learning environment March 30-April 30, District activities, athletics, programs and services are canceled now through May 4, 2020. Free meals continue to be available for students.

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2020 Census: What to know

Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau works to count everyone in the United States, including everyone in Minnesota. This year, the counting process, or census, will kick off in March. Learn more and find out what to expect.

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