2188 Londin Ln
St Paul, MN  55119

Highwood Hills Elementary School is a diverse neighborhood school with approximately 450 students located on St. Paul's east side. The school's focus is "a place to learn, participate and grow" and its vision is to "improve the academic achievement of all our students."  

Responsive Classroom is the basis for our social skills curriculum and cooperative learning which has created a safe, warm, welcoming environment.  Specialty classes include social skills,  physical education, and science.
The curriculum incorporates  Reader's and Writer's Workshop, Harcourt-Brace Balanced Literacy Program and Everyday Math, which are programs that are used to teach reading, writing and math.

Progress indicators are  the Diagnostic Reading Assessment, which is administered three times a year, and Progress Monitoring using running records, which are given every two weeks to students who are below grade level in reading.  Progress in reading is monitored regularly to ensure reading growth for all students. Every Day Math skills are progress monitored regularly as well measuring the skills that have been secured after each unit test.

Special Features

• Students are required to wear uniforms (red or white top with navy blue bottoms)
  
  
• Full-day kindergarten
  
  
• Our daily average attendance is at 98%
  
  
• Recognized as "beating the odds" due to the significant progress made on the MCAII
  
  
• An extensive literacy center with thousands of leveled readers
  
  
• A faculty that has been extensively trained through the University of MN in the area of reading utiliizing the Project of Academic Excellence and Reading First grants
  
  
• Language academy classes at each grade level for K-6 students who need language proficiency skills
  
  
• Partnership with Hamline, River Falls, and the University of MN to receive student teachers that are knowledgable about current practices
  
  
• Special education programs including the Learning Center
  
  
•  Early Childhood Special Education classes
  
  
• School Readiness for four-year-olds who meet the qualifications
  
  
• Early Reading First Program for teaching literacy skills to three and four year olds
  
  
• A state-of-the-art computer lab
  
  
• Mobile laptop computers with Discourse program (a tool for teaching reading, writing and math)
  
  
• Gifted and talented program (SEM) that includes participation in History Day, Young Authors Conference, and Destination Imagination competition
  
  
• SALT program offered to Somali students twice a week to learn about literacy in the Somali language
  
  
• 6th grade environmental camp yearly and after-school program that meets twice a week