Point Road School services approximately 450 children in grades K-4. In addition, we offer services to a small preschool population (ages 3-4).

A significant degree of the success of Point Road School has been due to its blend of a dedicated and professional staff along with the cooperation of the parents and the supportive community-at-large. This support encapsulates a variety of school programs, most notably the assistance offered by the PTO and the Education Foundation of Little Silver. These organizations have worked diligently to bolster the school goals with technical and fiscal donations.

Each classroom now boasts five high-speed computers as well as printers, TV's/VCR's and the appropriate software to supplement our overall curriculum. Classrooms also have access to the internet with appropriate safe-guards established.

In order to meet the needs of all the students, the school maintains a number of co-curricular activities. The co-curricular activities encompass a variety of areas. They include: band, chorus, newspaper, homework club, safety patrol and an introduction of stringed instruments to all third grade students. For those students with special needs, there are Basic Skills and Resource teachers available to ensure student success. The Basic Skills teachers work with students in small groups to supplement the mainstream curricular efforts while the Resource teachers provide replacement instruction in designated subject areas. Our Gifted and Talented Program, known as "Challenge", incorporates a specialized Challenge teacher who services children within the mainstream classrooms. This is accomplished in conjunction with the classroom teacher. Speech and counseling are available to all students in need of services.

In addition to the PTO supporting the aforementioned technology efforts, they are truly a dynamic force behind the entire scope of the school's vision. Their fund-raising activities ensure cultural arts programs and provide for additional teacher purchase requests. The PTO's impact has been one of positive enhancement for all the children. The PTO involvement has helped to ensure a mutually cooperative environment between staff and parents resulting in an overall focus on excellence.

The techniques of instruction employed by teachers help develop skills among the students to become lifelong learners. Curriculum is routinely reviewed and updated. Most recently, the teachers and curriculum coordinator have reviewed all aspects of the entire range of curriculum to ensure that the State's Core Curriculum Content Standards have been met. The entire teaching staff contributed to this review, thus guaranteeing the efficacy of our curriculum. Furthermore, a combined mixture of traditional and innovative teaching strategies also help to meet the varying and individual needs of the children. Some of these strategies include: cooperative learning techniques, "Junior Great Books", daily journal writing, "no excuse" spelling lists, novel studies and the use of math manipulatives. An award winning school garden ("The Enchanted Garden") serves as an outdoor classroom in which aspects of the curriculum are integrated across subject and grade levels.

In summary, Point Road School continues to teach those values and curriculum necessary to establish the solid foundation necessary for young children to grow and prosper. Concerted attempts are made to enlist the support of the entire school community. In this fashion, the children's education has been anchored in the school's belief that the children's learning must be multi-faceted in order to be able to explore new horizons and to capitalize on each child's strengths. A superior staff is well qualified to meeting the changing needs of the world around us. A dynamic parental support base works in conjunction with the school to create a school community which is centered around its children and their future.