- Osseo Area School District 279
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Osseo Area School District 279 is a school district in Hennepin County, Minnesota providing free public education from the primary level to the secondary level in the following areas: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Osseo, Plymouth, Corcoran, Dayton and Hassan. District 279 is the fifth largest district in Minnesota, with a student population of 22,071 in 2006. The superintendent is Kate Maguire.
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Overview
Osseo Area Schools serve all or parts of Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Corcoran, Dayton, Hassan Township, Maple Grove, Osseo, and Plymouth. District 279 has 19 elementary schools (K-6), four junior highs (7-9), three senior highs and an area learning center (9-12).
A comprehensive preK-12 school district, Osseo prepares students for college, post-secondary vocational training and the job market.
Elementary schools focus on reading and math achievement. Students also receive instruction in writing, research, science, social studies, phy ed and the arts. Literacy in technology, media and information retrieval is taught within subject areas. Many schools offer a variety of programs such as Be Four preschool, all-day kindergarten, multi-age classrooms and team teaching. Title 1 programs provide academic support to improve reading and math skills through an individualized plan for improvement.
The district's magnet school program offers value-added curriculum at two elementary schools: Birch Grove Elementary School for the Arts and Weaver Lake Elementary, a Science, Math, and Technology School. North View Junior High and Park Center Senior High (grade 10) offer students the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (applicant status).
Junior highs offer middle-level programming designed to let students sample elective courses and advance according to aptitude. Senior highs offer more than 250 basic, advanced, online, and elective courses including calculus, advanced math and science classes. Each school provides three years of French and Spanish; some offer German.
The district has taken an effort to increase technology integration in the classroom, this program is called the TICT Initiative. This program assists teachers in using technology as a supplement to their curriculum. In this program teachers have access to coaching, professional development, access to new technology.
Each school provides a wide variety of talented and gifted program services, from enrichment at elementary level to secondary-level advanced classes in English, math, science and social studies.
District 279's highly ranked special education program provides services from birth to high school graduation or age 22. Whenever possible, services are provided in regular classroom settings with children of the same age.
Renovation and construction that began in Spring 2000 improved facilities and added classroom space across the entire district.
For more information, call the Division of Leadership, Teaching, and Learning at 763-391-7084 or visit http://www.district279.org.
Schools
Here is a complete list of schools in the Osseo Area School District 279 (from primary level to Secondary level, including magnet schools and educational learning centers (school opening dates in parentheses):
Primary Level
- Basswood Elementary School
- Birch Grove Elementary School for the Arts
- Cedar Island Elementary School
- Crest View Elementary School
- Edgewood Elementary A Science, Math and Technology School
- Edinbrook Elementary School
- Elm Creek Elementary School
- Fair Oaks Elementary School
- Fernbrook Elementary School
- Garden City Elementary School
- Oak View Elementary School
- Palmer Lake Elementary School
- Park Brook Elementary School
- Rice Lake Elementary School
- Rush Creek Elementary School
- Weaver Lake Elementary School
- Woodland Elementary School
- Zanewood Community School
Junior High Schools
- Brooklyn Junior High School
- Maple Grove Junior High School
- North View Junior High School
- Osseo Junior High School is a public junior high school located in Osseo, Minnesota, at 10223 93rd Avenue North. The junior high school was annexed from Maple Grove to Osseo shortly after its construction, which is why the school has a Maple Grove address even though it is in the city of Osseo. The athletic field east of the school is still in Maple Grove. The current principal is Brian Chance. And the current assistant principal is Dianne Thomas. It has a student population of 1255. The junior high school was separated from Osseo High School in 1961 and was located the East Wing of the high school building. The Junior High was located there from 1961-66. In 1966, Osseo Junior High School was established in its own new building west of the high school. The building won an award as the outstanding new school in Minnesota of 1966. The building received additions in 1969 (a swimming pool) and 2005 (a classroom wing to the south). At one time, the school was home to the only instructional television station in Minnesota. The schools in the district each had a directional microwave tower that pointed to Osseo Junior High School and could receive programming from the school's television studio and control room. By the late 1970s, this system was obsolete, and the district distributed programming on video tapes.
Senior High Schools
Educational Learning Centers
- Osseo Area Learning Center
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See also
Categories:- School districts in Minnesota
- Suburban Minneapolis School Districts
- Education in Hennepin County, Minnesota
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