Joseph Estabrook School
117 Grove Street, Lexington, MA 02420
Martha Batten, Principal
Phone (781)861-2520 Fax (781)862-5610
Joseph Estabrook School
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Take a look at Snake,Snake Snake & Traveling Trip- A sample Bound Book project by Ellora Sen of Ms Lams Spring 2007 Second Grade and the Puffins Slide Show and the Half-a-Moon Inn Slide Show by Mrs Durkin's 3rd Grade.
Current news, announcements, and the school calendar of coming events are in the latest Estabrook Update.
The Joseph Estabrook School is an elementary school serving a diverse student body of about 456 students in grades Kindergarten through 5. It is one of the 9 schools in the 6,227 student Lexington Public School system. It is located in historic Lexington, MA, where the village common, now called the Battle Green, was the site of the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
Class size ranges from 15 in Kindergarten to 24 in Grade 4. For some interesting statistics about our students, our special characteristics, and some of the challenges we face, see Estabrook at a Glance (PDF Format). All our classrooms, the computer lab, and the library have computers with high speed connections to the Internet via our town's Ethernet fiber optic LAN.
The Estabrook FAQ page contains basic information for parents and the Estabrook Updates Index page contains links to additional information. It lists on-line archives of news, announcements, staff, policies and other useful information about the school.
Joseph Estabrook,1669-1733, was the first school teacher in Lexington. Born in Concord, he bought a 200 acre farm in Lexington in 1693. According to Hudson's History of the Town of Lexington, "In 1716 Captain Estabrook was employed as a teacher and continued his school five months, for which 15 pounds were paid him from the town treasury." Hudson's book, available at Lexington's Cary Memorial Library also indicates that Joseph Estabrook was Town Clerk, and was elected Selectman (still an important town executive position) several times and served a term as Representative to the General Court which was the Massachusetts Colony's legislature. As a Captain he also commanded a local military company.
The Estabrook Teaching Staff consists of 23 Classroom Teachers and about 26 specialists such as Art, Music, Reading, Languages, Special Needs, etc. shared in many cases with other Lexington Schools. We also have a number of tutors, classroom and other aides, secretaries, lunchroom staff, custodians and school volunteers who all contribute to the smooth operation of the school.
All Lexington Public School teachers now are on-line and have an E-mail account. Many, though not all, actually read and answer their e-mail from parents and students. You might inquire before relying on this form of communication for important messages.
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Last updated 9/24/07