Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School (EBCS)

Student achievement: Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School serves over 700 students in grades prekindergarten-8. Our goal at Henderson-Hopkins is to unlock students' joy and passion while preparing them for college and 21st-century careers. Part of this work is ensuring that students are making rapid academic progress. To support this goal, we have partnerships with achievement network, literacy lab, amplify, springboard collaborative, and more organizations that provide personalized academic support to all learners.

Strengthening Community: Henderson-Hopkins strives to be A pillar of its surrounding East Baltimore Community. Henderson-Hopkins started A weekly food distribution at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic that still operates today. Open to anyone in the Community, Henderson-Hopkins has served over 2 million pounds of food to 65,000 families. In this and other ways, Henderson-Hopkins has made A commitment to serving the East Baltimore neighborhood.

Health and wellness: ensuring that our students are healthy and safe is one of henderson-hopkins' key priorities. Henderson-Hopkins continued to use second step, A social-emotional learning curriculum, accross elementary grade levels and rythm, an sel curriculum, in middle School grades. The School partnered with concious discipline to train all staff in support youth through A brain development lens.