Discover Woodcrest

• Kindergarten – 22 to 1
• Grades 1-2 - 24 to 1
• Grades 3 - 25 to 1
• Grades 4-5 - 28 to 1

Spring Lake Park schools is a vibrant school community serving more than 6,200 students from the suburbs of Blaine, Fridley, and Spring Lake Park in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Click here to view the interactive map, which is designed to help families determine what neighborhood school their child will attend. Please note, students must apply to be a part of the Woodcrest Spanish Immersion program.

A guide for families and students on the operation and policies of Spring Lake Park Schools.

A student’s school experience is an important part of your family’s life. Each day, we work tirelessly to know each student’s strengths, interests and needs, create a sense of belonging and learning experiences that engage and delight.

There are also the practical aspects of school – start and end times, procedures for absences, transportation, meals and more. We’ve compiled the basic information about how our schools operate in this handbook for students and families. Please review the information and refer to it, as needed, throughout the year.  

You’ll also find a comprehensive list of our district policies for your reference.

Please contact your school as you have questions throughout the year.

View the School Handbook

Each year, we develop a School Improvement and Innovation Plan. The plan aligns to our Spring Lake Park Schools strategic plan and vision and includes projects to ensure – engaged and enthusiastic learners, effective operations, and communications and connections. Projects are identified based on student learning results and an assessment of how we are doing in implementing our plans and strategies. These projects guide our focus for staff professional learning and implementation activities.

Engaged and Enthusiastic Learners: Continuously improve personalized instruction and responsiveness to meet our students’ unique and varied needs.

• Expand Strategies to Build Language Acquisition: Review, refine, and expand our additive multilingual language practices to build the language acquisition of each learner
• Deepen Innovative and Personalized Learning: Continue to refine, develop and implement the core elements of personalized learning that contribute to global citizenship – competency-based learning, learner profiles, personal learner maps, flexible learning environments
• Deepen Responding to Difference: Deeply knowing each student’s strengths, interests, and needs in order to respond to differences in a way that ensures each student receives ongoing, timely, and personalized supports

Effective Operations: Improve our effective management of human, financial and physical resources

• Study Apprentice/Intern Opportunities: Engage in the design process to study opportunities for multilingual and multicultural educational apprentices at Woodcrest for the 2023-2024 school year
• Study Immersion Program Models for Spanish Language Arts and English Language Arts Instruction: Study best practices and models for implementing both Spanish Language Arts and English Language Arts in a one-way immersion and dual language programming

Communications and Connections: Increase the connection, engagement and support of our families and communities

• Enhance Partnerships with Families: Continue to review and refine current and future flexible uses of time and space for community engagement – curriculum events, conferences, celebrations of learning, and other community and family events