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7:15 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
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Mission<\/h2>\n
Gaenslen School will provide a supportive and caring environment for our enrolled students, parents, staff, and community by offering effective behavioral and academic interventions along with a rigorous, standards-based curriculum to prepare students for college, career, and future readiness.<\/p>\n
Vision<\/h2>\n
The Gaenslen School community reaches the hearts and minds of all of our students, helping every student reach their highest potential. We prepare our students to become career and community ready as we embrace neurodiversity through compassionate connections and equitable instruction.<\/p>\n
Specialized Education<\/h2>\n
Gaenslen School follows Milwaukee Public Schools\u2019 districtwide directive<\/a> to provide an education that \u201csupports the needs of students with disabilities, including the provision of behavioral and academic intervention services to students in need of support.\u201d<\/p>\n To support Gaenslen students who have special education needs, our faculty and staff includes four full-time nurses, resource teachers, student assistants, and a transition coordinator. Together, faculty, staff, and students embrace a schoolwide focus on the inclusion of students who have:<\/p>\n All our students receive a strong foundation in math, reading\/language arts, and other core subjects.<\/p>\n Completed in 1988 and renovated in 2023-24, the Gaenslen School campus is designed for accessibility and community. The building\u2019s wheelchair-friendly design includes extra-wide hallways, elevators, spacious bathrooms, and ramps. Every classroom has a flexible divider for collaborative learning opportunities that bring specialized and general-education students together.<\/p>\n Recent Gaenslen School additions and improvements continue our commitment to accessibility and community:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#d6d6d6″ custom_margin=”||60px||false|false” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#b7b7b7″ locked=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”60px|40px|0px|40px|false|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” header_2_font=”|||on|||||” custom_margin=”20px||||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Data from our most recent state report card<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_counters bar_bg_color=”gcid-primary-color” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” title_font=”||||||||” title_text_color=”#2B2B28″ title_font_size=”16px” percent_font_size=”15px” background_color=”#FFFFFF” custom_margin=”||60px|-30px|false|false” custom_css_main_element=”||” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-primary-color%22:%91%22bar_bg_color%22%93}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_counter percent=”81.3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” bar_background_color_default=”#0e2240″ use_percentages=”on”]Black or African American[\/et_pb_counter][et_pb_counter percent=”9″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” 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Gaenslen School plays a unique role within our Milwaukee Public Schools family. Located in a quiet Riverwest neighborhood, Gaenslen provides many academic programs, recreational spaces, and expertly trained faculty and staff ready to inspire and support K4 to eighth graders on their academic journeys. One hundred percent of our students benefit from learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n
Facilities<\/h2>\n
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Our Students<\/h2>\n
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\r\n\r\nGaenslen School welcomes and celebrates the individuality and diversity of our students, staff, parents, and the community. We educate with passion in a safe and respectful environment and pledge to prepare students to achieve personal success.\r\n\r\nOur school serves approximately 600 students in K4-8th grade. 39% of our student population has special needs, contributing to the diversity and enrichment of the school. The ethnic breakdown of Gaenslen\u2019s 21-22 population is as follows: 82% African-American, 9% Hispanic, 4% white and 6% other. Our mobility rate is low, 7%.\r\n\r\nGaenslen is an AGR School with three teachers at each grade level, K5-3rd grade. We are privileged to have enough space in the building so that all AGR teachers can have their own classroom, providing a 15:1 ratio of students to teachers.\r\n\r\nWe have two of each of the grade levels from 4th-8th with 25-32 students in each classroom. We have one K4 all-day classrooms that include students with special needs. All classrooms at Gaenslen School are equipped with dividers so that regular and special education teachers have the option of combining two classrooms into one for integration purposes.\r\nSpecial Education<\/h2>\r\n
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Gaenslen has the largest population of severe\/profound handicapped students in the state. We currently serve approximately 153 children that require a MRP (Most Restrictive Placement) unit. Consequently, Gaenslen has a very high ratio of classified to certificated staff.\r\n\r\nWhen the special education students come into our school as preschoolers, parents usually choose to keep them at Gaenslen until they graduate from 8th grade. Many parents of our special education students also choose to send their regular education siblings to Gaenslen in order to keep all of their children at one school.\r\nGaenslen School believes that...<\/h2>\r\nAchievement, sense of community, and utilization of technology, along with positive student relationships maximize the potential of all students. Emphasis is placed on developing the uniqueness of, as well as an awareness of, the similarities of all students. By reaching hearts and minds, our program strives to develop well-rounded students who are prepared to meet the future and have the skills and motivation to contribute to the community.\r\n\r\nGaenslen offers fully integrated programs for regular education, grades K-8, and students with disabilities, ages 3-14. A dedicated staff of 140 including administrators, teachers, aides and therapists work together to create a productive atmosphere for learning. This is accomplished by providing equity of learning opportunities and conveying high learning expectations to all students. Through a continuous, rigorous and sequential study of the core curriculum, the rate of learning is at a pace appropriate for each student.\r\n\r\nGaenslen is committed to having students reach their highest levels of academic, social, and personal potential in order to prepare them for high school graduation, the world of work, and life in the 21st century.\r\n
History<\/h2>\r\nThe school, named after Dr. Fredrick J. Gaenslen, first opened in December, 1939 as a school for children who were suffering with Polio. The original Gaenslen School was located on what is presently the parking lot and playground.\r\n\r\nIn the spring of 1988, Gaenslen, and our neighbor, Fratney School, merged and moved into the present facility, allowing for the total integration of exceptional education students with regular education students.\r\n\r\nThe new building was built to accommodate students in wheelchairs, i.e. extra-wide hallways, large custodial bathrooms, an elevator in each corner of the building, ramps that go from the second floor to the ground for fire escapes, and a full-size pool with a ramp for wheelchair-bound students.","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}