Welcome to Stagg Elementary School! You will find that we are a community of learners that always strives to do our very best. We are proud to say that we have been named a Title One High Achieving School for the sixth year in a row, with an API of 848.

Our teachers collaborate to bring all of our students lessons tailored to their needs. We monitor our students’ progress carefully, so that intervention is given early and when needed. We also provide high level School for Advanced Studies (SAS) and Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) differentiation at Stagg Elementary.

The year, Stagg was a nominee for a Music Center Bravo Award for our exciting music program. Every third grade student receives weekly violin lessons from our orchestra teacher. We have fourth grade beginning strings and band. By the time our fifth graders get to the orchestra, they have had two years of instrumental music experience, for the most part. Our Spring Concerts highlight our band and orchestra, and our third graders have their own day to shine in performance. Stagg is the only school in Los Angeles Unified School District that is participating in the Inspiring Notes music program. Inspiring Notes, funded by private donors and grants, provides chamber concerts for all of our students, and weekly semi-private professional music lessons for our band and orchestra students.

We are also extremely fortunate this year to be an Arts Prototype school, with District paid visual, performing, and theater arts teachers coming into our school all year long. Additionally, every other week, high school students from Cleveland High School in the work experience teacher training program come to teach art lessons to twenty-one of our classrooms, under the direction of their wonderful teacher. The Stagg PTA sponsored a grand event for the first time in many years—The PTA Reflections Arts Program. One of our students is going on to further competition with students at other schools later in the year! The arts program at Stagg has become quite well-developed.

There are many opportunities for parents to be involved at Stagg. We have a very active Parent Center, with regular parent classes on Mondays beginning in March, ESL classes on Fridays beginning in March, and Parent Council meetings that are always open for anyone to attend. We also have weekly Wednesday coffee gatherings all year long, where parents get together and do crafts, talk, plan, meet with our Parent Representatives about anything happening at our school. Once or twice a year, our kindergarten teachers hold parent education workshops to help parents understand how early reading and writing develop. Every weekend, there is a phone call home from the principal updating parents about the upcoming week. These phone calls happen either Friday or Sunday night around 7:00 or 7:30.

As you can see, we have many exciting things happening at Stagg Elementary. We all work together to make sure that students are learning at a high level, and meeting the standards of the State of California. And, as a community, we come together for our children, to create a love of learning to last a lifetime.