Barwell Road Elementary School

Thank you so much for visiting our site! Barwell Road Elementary School is a multi-track year-round school where educators collaborate to support each other in implementing best teaching practices in every classroom. We use data-based decision making to meet the needs of our diverse learners. All staff members know and use the principles of Positive Behavior Support to teach and reinforce expected student behavior consistently throughout the building. Barwell Road Elementary benefits from a significant community partnership with the City of Raleigh and shares its campus with the Barwell Road Community Center . Barwell Road Elementary School has talented students, supportive parents, and a dedicated staff!

We are exceptionally proud to announce that our preliminary (unofficial) North Carolina End of Grade test results for 2008-2009 indicate that our student achievement has increased by 11 percentage points over our 2007-2008 results! Check back on this site for updated information as it becomes available. We also invite you to return here for updates on our plans for continued improvement through implementation of the recommendations from our Individual School Audit.

New information describing the school choice process for Barwell Road Elementary School for the 2009-2010 school year can be found here.

Open Letter from Dr. Del Burns, Superintendent of Wake County Public Schools

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Barwell Road Elementary School will participate in an audit process to develop a plan to better align our work to improve student achievement. Click here for more information.

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The building design for Barwell Road Elementary has won an award! Small Kane Architects and Barnhill Contracting Company recently won an award and were included in the American School & University magazine's November issue!

"Barwell Road Elementary School shares its site and building with the adjacent Barwell Road Community Center. Pairing the two facilities provides long-needed amenities to the southeastern portion of the city and enables the school and center to reduce duplicate systems through shared mechanical infrastructure. The shared site also made for an efficient use of land space, with less disturbed forest area, and allows student access to gymnasium facilities during school hours.

The Elementary school was designed in accordance with the Triangle Region's High Performance Guidelines for sustainability. Light shelves bring daylight deep into classroom spaces, thus reducing the amount of artificial light needed. Also, by stacking the fourth/fifth-grade wings and the second/third-grade wings, the building footprint was reduced by 25 percent from a single story design.

The 40,000-square-foot, two story community center is integrated into the existing topography so that visitors enter the facility on the upper floor, looking down upon the two gymnasiums. The center also features north-south daylighting through translucent clerestory glazing panels."

American School and University • Architectural Portfolio • November 2008