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Mission:
West Middle Elementary School is a multicultural environment that dynamically educates children by fostering high expectation through a joint collaboration of school, home and a supportive community.
Located in Asylum Hill, grades include Pre-K-6, Bilingual, Special Education, and Language Transition Support Service classes. Nearly 800 students from 18 countries speaking 14 languages are housed in a campus of three buildings bordered by Asylum Avenue, Sigourney Street and Niles Street.
Special Programs:
School-day activities include Suzuki Violin for Pre-K to first grade, instrumental music for fourth, fifth and sixth grade, Reading Buddies- Grade 3, Breaking the Cycle- Grade 5, DARE- Grade 6, Compass Learning- Grades 2-6, Literacy Tutoring- Grades K-3, Italian Instruction Pre-K, Albanian Resource, Sunshine Club, Lutz Museum Class and Museum Visits, Morton Salt Mystic Aquarium Coastal Visits, Class Meeting, Hartford Symphony, Connecticut Opera, Music Speaks to Me and Chamber Music Plus.
Activities:
After school activities include Boys and Girls Club which has affiliation with Dance Connecticut, Mark Twain Public Library, Kingswood Oxford Tutoring, and other local cultural and enrichment resources, ConnectiKids, League Basketball, Drill Team, Summer School, Power Hour, Girl’s Inc., Artists Collective, and Light and Peace at Trinity Episcopal Church,
Community Partners:
Supporting WMES are Hartford Financial Services Inc., Neighborhood Revitalization Zone Education Sub-Committee, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, ConnectiKids, Boys and Girls Club, Community Services Inc., and CT Parents Plus. The community connections are continuing to grow along with active participation. Representatives of these organizations are on the School Improvement Team and are part of the leadership.
Grants:
The Connecticut School Reform (CSR) grant provides increased funding for our literacy-based programs and implementing our School Improvement Plan Goal for literacy. The Connecticut Reading Excellence Act Grant (CT READS) supports professional development in science-based reading research instruction, and collaboration with community based organizations including early childhood programs, and family literacy providers. WMES has become a Blue Chip school as a recipient of the Enhancing Education Through Technology grant to integrate technology into the curriculum. The Haskins Early Reading Success Initiative provides an on-site ERS Fellow to assist with classroom guidance, provide consultation and demonstrations guided by scientific research with on-going evaluations.
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