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Our PTA's mission is to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
Long Branch Elementary is a public school in the Lyon Park/Ashton Heights neighborhood of Arlington, VA. Over a third of the students attending Long Branch receive free or reduced lunch. At Long Branch, 31% of our students are English Learners and 15% are students with disabilities.
Our PTA works hard to make school events and activities accessible to everyone. We pay national and local PTA dues for all families. Our community building events – including the Spring Fling, Science/STEM night, Movie Night, and dinner/babysitting at all monthly PTA meetings with Spanish translation – are free. We also provide stipends and scholarships for students to attend after-school enrichment programs and underwrite the costs for field trips that might not otherwise take place.
The funds we raise also help to keep our school in good shape. Funds go directly to our budget to fund stipends for out-of-pocket teacher school supplies, staff and teacher appreciation events, community building events, and a school grant program among others. In the past, proceeds from our auction have provided Smart Boards in every classroom, books for the library, new furniture for the cafeteria and library, and technology accessible to all students in the school.
