• DEMOGRAPHICS
    YEAR SCHOOL OPENED
    1955
    ATTENDANCE RATE (%)
    95.0
    student Enrollment
    382
    Race/Ethnicity (%)
    African American....................... 5.7
    Hawaii/Pac. Islander.......................... -
    White.............................. 80.1
    Multiracial...................... 5.7
    Hispanic......................... 7.0
    American Indian/AK....................... -
    Asian.............................. -
    GENDER (%)
    Male................................ 50.1Ā 
    Female........................... 49.7
    Special Services** (%)
    FARMS........................... 15.6
    504.................................. 5.1
    Special Ed..................... 10.8
    LEP................................. -
    Title 1............................. No

    Ā **Special Services Terms Glossary

    School Renovation Details - 2008 - Reconstruction

Pasadena Elementary School

Belle Grove

Who We Are: Our Community and School Culture

  • Each of our schools’ leadership teams analyzed the factors that impact their students’ ability to engage deeply and achieve academic success. They shared stories of their students and families, some of whom are facing serious challenges associated with physical wellness, social-emotional stability, unique learning needs, family security, mental health, violence, and food/housing uncertainties. They discussed the obstacles that their students face daily when preparing to come to school on time, ready to learn.
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    Questions such as the following drove discussions around Anne Arundel County: 

    • What are the challenges and obstacles that negatively affect our students’ engagement and achievement most significantly and why?
    • Are we analyzing our data and listening closely to learn about all of our students when we seek to understand our learners’ social-emotional and academic struggles?
    • How do cultural differences, language challenges, transportation difficulties, health problems, and frequent family relocation (mobility) serve as obstacles to school success for our students?
    • What resources and supports are available within AACPS and across our county to support students and families in need?  How do we help our families receive the supports they need?

Our School Culture

  • Pasadena Elementary Below is the school’s story as seen through the eyes of school leaders. They discuss the culture of their school and the community.

    Acknowledging those who follow “The Panther Way” plays an integral part in growing our students. Since Pasadena Elementary School utilizes a multi-tiered system of support, students who are recognized for displaying positive characteristics and behaviors are eligible for classroom and school incentives. Weekly, teachers select role model students to be acknowledged in the classroom, during announcements, and by the school administration. The school day ends with announcements of “Proud Panther Awards” for students and staff members displaying school values, acts of kindness, or reaching personal academic or behavioral goals. Staff are recognized in the weekly Panther News (staff bulletin), over the public address system, at weekly meetings, and during Teacher Appreciation Week; this builds a feeling of staff unity. At the end of each marking period, “Success Celebrations” recognize student efforts in meeting personal goals and encourage students to look forward to the next marking period.

    Pasadena Elementary students also learn to fill leadership roles. They take ownership in creating a safe school through safety patrol, recycling team, morning announcements, student government, and responsibilities within classrooms. In addition, the Buddy program enables fourth- and fifth-grade students to partner with students in the Specialty Site classes as well as primary grades, assisting during morning transition, inclusion classes, and dismissal. Intermediate students also partner with primary students to review sight words and read. Our students contribute to their community by facilitating service learning projects including Harvest for the Hungry, the Holiday Giving Tree, Red Ribbon Week, and Operation Welcome Home for deployed troops. Pasadena Elementary students and staff also participate in service-learning projects including RISE for Autism, Autism Speaks, and Pennies for Patients to support local families while striving to support a culture and climate that fosters a growth mindset, kindness, empathy, and inclusivity.
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    Community connections with stakeholders including the PTA, high school interns, and community business partners are instrumental in providing essential support to students and faculty. Local community members, family members of current and former students, and other volunteers log many hours annually supporting the school’s literacy and mathematics initiatives, extracurricular clubs, and one-to-one tutoring. These positive role models demonstrate a collaborative partnership for success. Additionally, they have provided funding for an outdoor classroom, incentives, community projects, and educational cultural arts assemblies, all of which have enhanced our students’ learning experiences. Past and present generations participate in Literacy, Science, Technology Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education, and our Enhancing Elementary Excellence (EEE) program through activities such as our Global Studies events that take place with community partners at the local public library. The school comes together annually for “Light It Up Blue” and  Autism Awareness, Unity Day, and All Children Exercise Simultaneously (ACES) Day. Families are invited to American Education Week and other parental involvement events including artist in residency programs such as ballroom dancing and ballet. In addition, grade-level parental involvement events, guest readers for “Along the Way Career Day” and “Read Across America,” and opportunities to see learning in action throughout the year bring members of the community together.

    Pasadena is dedicated to creating a growth mindset through “The Panther Way.” Examining the climate and culture, staff plan an environment that encourages students’ academic, social, and emotional growth. Purposeful instructional tasks connect real world applications and engage students in rigorous and meaningful ways. STEAM lessons, Discovery Learning, Discovery Streaming, SMART Technology, and current news articles infuse diversity into instruction and maintain engagement. Sea Perch, NASA Best and Science Lab experiments provide authentic applications of science and engineering and foster collaboration. EEE Global Studies provides students with a powerful lens for examining and understanding the world's people, places, and problems. By focusing on world issues, students examine other nations and societies. Through inquiry-based learning, students research big concepts across the disciplines to connect children to the world around them, encourage their natural curiosity, help them develop essential thinking and learning skills, and guide them to become stewards of the environment and responsible global citizens.

CHALLENGES TO STUDENT SUCCESS

  • The leadership team in each AACPS school reviewed all of the factors that may influence their students’ engagement and achievement in school; these challenges include academic data elements, community history, and socio-economic aspects of each community. The school’s leadership team identified the following elements as impactful for their students.

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