Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School

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The Keller community celebrates uniqueness and demonstrates respect for all teachers, students, and parents. We believe in the possibilities of new ideas and work cooperatively to bring them to fruition We provide high quality, rigorous instruction for first through eighth grade gifted and talented children from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. We endeavor to work together to create a cooperative, nurturing and respectful learning environment that honors diversity and encourages student responsibility in their quest to reach their highest potential.

Our Mission

The mission of Annie Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School is to ensure that all students are provided a differentiated, accelerated, and gifted curriculum, which emphasizes Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Science with the integration of technology and leadership development as part of our goal for students to become globally competitive. The vision is for administrators, teachers, staff, community, parents, and all students to work together to create a cooperative, nurturing, and respectful learning environment that honors diversity and encourages student responsibility to produce world class citizens.

At Keller, we envision that all students will be provided with continuous, high quality instructional excellence. Our goal is to successfully educate all students by recognizing and addressing the unique needs of our gifted and academically talented students.

On behalf of children,

Mrs. Chalese A. Conley-Dunbar, Principal
Mrs. Katrina N. Copeland, Assistant Principal

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings

~ William Hodding Carter, Jr.

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11/09/2016 - LSC STATEMENT REGARDING 19TH WARD EDUCATION PROPOSAL

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• 2017 5Essentials Performance Overview

• Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School tops list of highest-achieving Southland elementary schools

• School Digger rank #1 of 2,078 Illinois elementary schools based upon 2016 PARCC - https://www.schooldigger.com/go/IL/schoolrank.aspx

• Chicago Magazine (September 2012) ranked Keller as one of the best public schools in Chicago and the suburbs. Keller is “one of only five CPS elementary schools where every child meets or exceeds state testing standards”

• Chicago Public Schools’ (2015) Computer Science for All, Cohort II member bringing high quality computer science training to staff and learning to students

• Keller RGC ranked #1
2014 Top 50 Illinois Middle Schools

• Inside CPS - Meet Diannia Jemison, Keller's 1st Grade Teacher