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  • Welcome to Midtown Academy - Center for Cultural Arts & Gifted Studies

    Our Midtown scholars experience the best of all worlds – academics and the arts – in classrooms centered around hands-on learning with STEM enrichment. Midtown is the only south Pinellas elementary school offering:

     

    • Double the arts! Four times per week arts/music classes.

    • Full-time gifted! All-gifted, all-day instruction (Gifted FAQs)

    • Project-based learning! MakerSpace and student-led enrichment clusters weekly (School Wide Enrichment Model)

    • Cultural immersion field trips! Frequent visits to museums and local cultural institutions.

    • All instructors gifted trained! High-level teaching strategies in every classroom. 

     

    Our small-school environment ensures that every child receives the personalized tools to succeed academically and become a real-world problem solver. Seeing is believing. We invite you to tour our historic campus, and explore our classrooms in action! 

     

    Late applications will open March 23rd for the 2020-2021 school year and a few spots remain available in both programs! For additional information, contact our magnet coordinator at 727-893-1358 or at griffinas@pcsb.org or sign up to take a tour. 

     

    Principal's Message

    Welcome to Midtown Academy Center of Cultural Arts and Gifted Studies home of the Mustangs. I am Keila Victor, the principal. I have been an educator for over 20 years, previously at Pinellas Park, Madeira Beach Fundamental and Bay Vista Fundamental Elementary.

    The staff of Midtown Academy is committed to a safe learning environment that is academically focused, but we still make time to have fun and celebrate our successes. We focus on providing a quality education for students in our community through relationship building, quality instruction and development of a strong home school connection.

    As you walk through the campus please take note of our Guidelines for Success:

    Cooperation

    Assertiveness

    Respect

    Empathy

    Self-Control

    We welcome your participation in the school improvement process through membership or attendance of the School Advisory Council (SAC), meetings and active PTA involvement. Your partnership is a valuable asset to our success.

    I look forward to an excellent year at Midtown Academy.

     
    Keila Victor

     
    Keila Victor, Principal
     
     

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    End of School Year Information:

    Personal Item Pick-Up / Exchange Property with Students/Families

    Personal Item Pick-Up- 5/27/2020 from 2pm-4pm

    · Please pull around as you normally would for dismissal.

    · Employees will have appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (masks, gloves).

    · Students and families should stay in their vehicles.

    · Please have your student(s) name printed on a sign and prominently placed in car window for easy identification.

     

    Summer Bridge:

    Midtown students who register for Summer Bridge will work with Midtown teachers! All students who have been previously registered for Summer Bridge must re-register when the reservation system reopens on May 11th. · Register at reservation.pcsb.org

    · Registration info: Call the Student Assignment office at 588-6210. · Questions? Contact our front office at 893-1358 or visit www.pcsb.org/summer bridge.

     

    Upcoming Dates:

    MAY

     · May 18-29, End-of-Year Virtual Parent Conferences

    · May 25th, Memorial Day, NO SCHOOL

    · May 26-29, Ungraded Enrichment Activities on Teams-ATTENDANCE WILL BE TAKEN

    · May 29th - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL-Report Cards can be accessed online. Hard copies will not be provided.

    JUNE

    · June 8th, First Day of Summer Bridge (Virtual)-4-day weeks (M-Th)

    JULY

    · July 16th , Last Day of Summer Bridge

    · Week of July 27th - 2020/21 teacher assignments available in Focus

     

    AUGUST

    · August 10th, Meet the Teacher (Times TBA)

    · August 12th, First Day of School

    · August 12-14, Parents may escort student to their classroom

    · Wed., Thurs., Fri., August 12,13,14-Parents may walk students to classrooms

     
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  • Personal Item Pick-Up is May 27th from 2:00-4:00 PM

    The process to pick-up student personal items is listed below. This is the only way we will be returning items to families. Please see the guidelines below. If you have any questions, please contact your classroom teacher.

    • Families will pull into the car line in a single line. 
    • Please pull around as you normally would for dismissal.
    • Employees will have appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (masks, gloves).
    • Students and families should stay in their vehicles.
    • Please have your student(s) name printed on a sign and prominently placed in car window for easy identification.
    • An employee will be designated at each stopping point and will radio to staff inside the building to retrieve each student's personal bag.
    • Please also return library books or teacher books at this time.

    One employee will be designated to retrieve library books/teacher books being returned to prevent mix contamination.


     
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  • SSYRA

    You can get a head start reading our SSYRA books (Battle Books) and have a chance at competing and helping us hold onto our title of South County Battle of the Books Champions! Click the image to learn more or check out the book lists below. Happy reading!

     

    2020-2021 SSYRA Annotated Book List (3rd-5th graders)

    2020-2021 SSYRA Annotate Book List (6th-8th graders)
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  • Schools will be closed from March 24th - May 29th, 2020.

     
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  • School tours are offered  on Tuesday at 9:00

    To Schedule a tour you may sign up here:

    Sign-Up or contact Ashley Orvik at 727-893-1358, Ext. 2060 or griffinas@pcsb.org

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