Lindsey Catlett Educ.

514 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE Part I: Introduction I am completing my part-time student teaching internship at an elementary school in northeastern Virginia. The elementary school is located in a county that is semi-rural. I am working in a second grade classroom of twenty-three students with my mentor teacher who has been teaching for eleven years. She has been teaching eleven years at this school. Part II: The School and School System The school system with which my internship school is in has a total of thirty-three schools. There are seventeen elementary schools, seven middle schools, five high schools, and four other schools that are not specified. The total population of my practicum elementary school is 766 students. My elementary school is one of seventeen elementary schools in the whole county. There are roughly 10,500 students enrolled in elementary schools in this county. Out of those 10,500 students, 766 are enrolled in my host schools. In elementary schools in this particular county, there is a student-teacher ratio of 23:1. This elementary school hosts grades Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade, all of which are located within one building. The chart below shows the breakdown of males and females that are enrolled in my host elementary school. Student Population of the County School System & Elementary School by Gender Elementary School School System Male 418 12,279 Female 348 11,489 Total 766 23,768

The chart below shows the racial and ethnic diversity that comprises the student body in my host elementary school. Student Population of Elementary School by Race & Ethnicity Race & Ethnicity American Indian or Alaska Native Asian Black, not of Hispanic Origin Elementary School Total 1 8 114 School System Total 74 656 4,358

Hispanic White, not of Hispanic Origin Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Non-Hispanic, two or more races Race/Ethnicity unknown, not specified

103 483 1 56 0

2,716 14,828 27 1,109 10

Student Population of Elementary School Student Body by Group Student Population Group Students with Disabilities Economically Disadvantaged Limited English Proficient Migrant Homeless Number of Students 106 235 27 0 10

Teacher Population of Elementary School by Gender In this chart below, it is important to note that these numbers only show the teachers that are in the elementary school. Additional faculty such as counselors, Para-educators, nurse staff, office staff, administration, cafeteria and housekeeping staff were not factored into my population count. These numbers represent a small part of 1,712 total classroom teachers that teach in this county. Elementary School Male 4 Female 47 Total 51

In this county school system, the projected cost per student is $9,211. Out of all the students attending schools within this school system, 35.4% are considered economically disadvantaged. Part III: My Classroom For my part-time internship, I am working in a second grade classroom of twenty-three students with my mentor teacher who has been teaching for eleven years. This second grade classroom is comprised of a very heterogeneous group. There is one student who has an Individualized Education Program for Autism and speech. Each day, he gets pulled out of the classroom by the special education teacher from 11:45 to 12:15. During this time he is working on writing and social skills. On Mondays and Fridays he gets pulled out of the classroom from 2:00 to 2:30 for speech; and on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 2:30 for occupational therapy. A Para-educator also pushes into the classroom daily from 10:00 to 10:30 to help this

student. If needed he can be pulled out for math, but so far hes done very well and that hasnt been necessary. As for the rest of the class, there are three students in SCOPE. There are two students with ADHD. There are also four students who get pulled out of the classroom for PALS. Three of those students are pulled out five times a week. The other student, who is our English Language Learner (level 3 developing), only gets PALS twice a week because he works with the ESOL teacher those other three days. I think its also important to note that we have several students who have allergies within our classroom community. In second grade, there are six spelling groups, but these are spread out across the grade level. For spelling groups, the entire second grade population is divided into six groups. Each second grade teacher is assigned a spelling group meaning they teach students outside their class population. In my classroom, there are four reading groups. The four groups include Squares, Triangle 1s, Triangle 2s, and Circles. The Squares reading group is the highest reading group and they are above grade level. The three students in this group are reading around the 3.5 grade level. This group is at the O instructional level (as used by Fountas & Pinnell). The Triangle 2s reading group is made up of six students who are just slightly above grade level. The Triangle 1s reading group, made up of seven students, is below grade level. They are considered to be reading at the mid-1st grade level. The Circles reading group, made up of seven students, is the lowest group. They are all reading on the Primer level (roughly the beginning of 1st grade). All groups are rather large, except for the higher level group (Squares). Population of the 2nd grade classroom by gender 2 grade class
nd

Male 14

Female 9

Total 23

Population of the 2nd grade classroom by Race & Ethnicity Race & Ethnicity Race/Ethnicity Unknown American Indian Asian Black, not of Hispanic origin Hispanic White, not of Hispanic origin Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Two or more races Number of Students 0 1 0 2 0 15 0 5 Percent of Students 0% 4% 0% 9% 0% 65% 0% 22%

Part IV: Reflection In completing this demographic profile, I was able to learn a lot of specific numerical information about my host elementary school and the county school division in which its in. Even though I live in the surrounding area near this county (approximately forty-five miles), Ill admit Ive never really thought about the demographic profile. For my K-12 education, I attended school in a small school system within a small rural community. Therefore, knowing the demographic of that community, it was very interesting to learn about the demographics and diversity of a community much larger than the one I grew up in. I think this project was beneficial because it allowed us to find out important demographic information about a school and its schools system; and this is information we generally wouldnt consider. We might often think of only the immediate context of the classroom without thinking of how it fits into the bigger picture of the school and the entire county division. I found that it was much easier to obtain and learn about the demographics in my 2nd grade classroom than it was to learn about the school and the larger school system as a whole. For this project, it was interesting to see how parts make up the whole. First, I got to look at the classroom profile in the context of the school; and then I got to see the profile of the school in the context of the entire school system.