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Greenfield Home and School Association has successfully raised capital funds for a number of projects over the years. The playground equipment on the east side of the play yard and in the Kindergarten yard was purchased with Home and School funds and installed in 1998.
In 2002-2003 we focused our attentions on renovating our library. The Home and School Association had raised $25,000 and used these funds to purchase new custom made tables, upholstered chairs, custom built bookcases, and to refinish the original maple chairs. That same year the Greenfield Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to the school in memory of Gustav Amsterdam. It was stipulated that the grant would be used to purchase technology for the library - computers, computer furniture and software. The timing of this gift was perfect given our goal that year to update our library.
In 2005, after another couple of years of fund raising, we set our sights on renovating our cafeteria. Home and School had $20,000 to put towards this project and the funds were used to purchase and install a rubber floor. Here too we were fortunate in that the School District had funds available in their budget that year for cafeteria improvements. That summer our cafeteria project was completed. |
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Albert M. Greenfield Elementary School opened its doors in September 1970 to meet the needs of a growing Center City population. As the neighborhood public school for families residing in the Center City West area, the school continues to serve neighborhood families as well as students applying for admission under the School District's student transfer option (initially implemented to address desegregation in Philadelphia public schools).
With an enrollment of just under 500 students the demographics of the student population include 60.7% African American, 29.3% Caucasian, 4.6% Asian, 2.8% Latino, and 2.6% other. The school provides special education programs to 13.6% of the student population identified with special needs. Another 13.5% of the students are in the mentally gifted program. English as a Second Language is provided to 2.2% of the students. Nearly half (48.6%) of the students at Greenfield qualify for free or reduced lunch, compared to 74.4% of students in the School District citywide.
Academically, Greenfield is one of the top performing elementary schools in the Philadelphia School District. On the Terra Nova national standardized test given in Spring 2006, 59.6% of Greenfield students scored at or above the national average in reading, 63.2% of Greenfield students scored at or above the national average in language, 59.4% scored at or above the national average in math, and 62.5% scored at or above the national average in science.
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