About Us
 Parkway School is a great place for children to attend school. We continue to strive for improvement and excellence; we are extremely proud of our programs.
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Parkway School has an outstanding teaching staff. Fifty-three percent of our staff have Masters Degrees. We have a full-time nurse, librarian, reading specialist, physical education, speech therapist, and resource center staff. We also have a part time enrichment teacher. |
Unique Staff and Program Recognition
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Parkway School was one of the first elementary schools in Bergen County to receive the Presidential Award for excellence. |
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The Parkway School Kindergarten Program has won the "Best Practices" award from the New Jersey Department of Education. |
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Parkway School has a hands-on award winning Science Program. |
Specialized and Support Programs
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Band/orchestra and instrumental lessons for fourth grade students. |
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Books & Beyond – an incentive program to encourage reading and to significantly increase parent involvement in reading with their children. |
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Quest Skills for Growing Program – this program teaches students social interaction skills, respect, decision-making resistance to per pressure, and substance abuse prevention. |
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School Age Child Care (SACC) – this is a program for working parents. There is a morning and afternoon program. |
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Intramural Program – for third and fourth grade children which takes place mornings before the start of school. |
Technology
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Parkway has computers in all classrooms, a computer lab housing 24 computers, a wireless mobile computer lab with twelve laptops, and other educational technology tools including 11 Smart Boards (interactive whiteboards) and 8 Elmos, the document camera which acts an overhead and opaque projector. |
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The Parkway library is completely automated with 14,000 titles in its database. Children and teachers circulate books through the computer and bar code system. The library also contains eight computer workstations, whereby children can use reference materials to do research. |
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