Seven Generations Charter School
in Emmaus, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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Seven Generations Charter School is a small, suburban, public charter school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States.The school was founded in 2009. Seven Generations Charter School is operated under the oversight of a local Board of Trustees, the East Penn School District and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In 2013, the enrollment was 351 pupils, with 12% of pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level. Additionally, 17.94% of the pupils receive special education services and 3.7% pupils were identified as gifted. Seven Generations Charter School is a federally designated Title I school. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 10% of the school's teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, the school employed 34 teachers yielding a 9:1 student teacher ratio. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 10% of the school's teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Seven Generations Charter School is one of four public charters schools operating in Lehigh County in 2013. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, in 2012, there were 50,605 children in Lehigh County that were enrolled in public charter schools.Originally, the school provided Kindergarten through fourth grade. By 2013, it has grown to offer kindergarten through eighth grades. The school is housed in a former silk mill originally built in 1892 and is located near residential neighborhoods, a small town business district, several local historical sites, the main headquarters for Rodale Publishing, and an expansive local community green space. In 2010, students from 23 school districts in the Lehigh Valley region attend Seven Generations Charter School.Seven Generations students participate in the surrounding community activities like parades and special events. Seven Generations Charter School embraces the EIC program requirement that all students improve their local environment through community-based service learning activities. First grade students raised community awareness about how to protect a local pond by petitioning the mayor and council to have signs posted and giving presentations at the local library. Third graders wrote letters to local community leaders to acquire resources to purchase of native plants to replace invasive species on our adjacent riparian zone. The plants were chosen by third and fifth grade students, collaboratively, so that they supported the fifth grades service project of honey bee hives that ensure sources of pollination. In 2012, Seven Generations Charter School received national recognition as an EIC Model School.In Pennsylvania, charter schools are initially approved and subsequently overseen by the local school board. They make in depth, annual reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In Pennsylvania, charter schools are a public school alternative the local public schools. Students may seek admission to a local charter school. The student's home public school district pays the tuition costs on the student's behalf. Additionally, when the local school district provides transportation to its students it must also provide transportation at no costs to charter school students when the receiving school is within 10 miles of the District's borders. Pennsylvania charter schools have the same academic accountability as traditional public schools and must give the PSSAs to their pupils each year, working to achieve AYP status.According to Pennsylvania charter school law, if more students apply to attend than there are open slots available, Charter Schools are required to use a random lottery system to select new incoming students.According to the Charter School law, siblings (brothers and sisters), and children of individuals who help establish a charter school, are granted an “admissions preference.” Students residing in the East Penn School District are selected first, according to the number of slots available for local resident students. If there is space available for more students, seats will be declared open for out-of-District students.The Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit IU21 provides the school with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.
