Francis Scott Key Elementary

{Key Immersion School} A Team School with Arlington Science Focus, Jamestown, and Taylor

Address: 2300 Key Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201

Phone: 703-228-4210

Fax: 703-524-2236

Principal: Marjorie Myers, MLMyers@arlington.k12.va.us

School hours:
Full Day - 9 a.m. to 3:41 p.m.
Early Release - 9 a.m. to 1:26 p.m.

Local School Report - English | Spanish

Test Scores and Statistics

Web Site: www.apsva.us/key

Key School/Escuela Key is a Two-Way Spanish-English Immersion school. Key School/ Escuela Key is committed to help and support each child to acquire the concepts and skills necessary to become a respectful, responsible, trustworthy, and contributing member of our school, community, and the world. Key strives for academic excellence while developing a lifelong love of learning. We support children as they learn to respect themselves and others as they attain a sense of self and an appreciation for the global community. We help appreciate beauty wherever it may be. While meeting all of these goals, we support and help them become fluent in both Spanish and English.

At Key School/Escuela Key, we believe in the uniqueness of all children and in responding to their needs as we teach them. We believe in working together with the home and the community to provide rich opportunities for cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. We further believe in the benefits of learning two languages in the context of their cultures, as our students become citizens of the world, while using technology as a tool for responding to the challenges of our ever-changing world.

Key School/Escuela Key is a Two-Way Spanish-English Immersion school. Every student at Key School/Escuela Key participates fully in Two-Way Spanish-English Immersion. This internationally recognized program is designed to teach children a foreign language in a natural way through everyday conversation and content instruction. Students at Key learn Arlington County's elementary curriculum. Math, Science, and Spanish Language Arts are taught in Spanish while Social Studies and English Language Arts are taught in English. The students use each other as language models, and, by the fifth grade, are able to communicate effectively in two languages. We celebrate bilingualism and our diversity.