Jones Cove School

Jones Cove is a K-8 school. We do not have an in-house pre-school program, nor do we have a separate facility on our property. County pre-school programs do no have enough Jones Cove students to warrant creating a program at our school. Parents send their children to Harrisburg Head Start or to Sunset Gap if they want them to have pre-school experi... ence. Our facility does include a gymnasium, a playground, a cafeteria and dining hall, a library, a science lab that has been converted to a regular classroom, and a computer lab that must share space with the music and art classes. Our building and grounds are clean and well maintained, as 75% of community and 80% of students agreed on the survey. The community has an interest in the upkeep as is evidenced in the playground committee's work to install and repair equipment. Glenda Bradley's family and other community members often visit our school to maintain her memory garden. We have a convenient location that is secured by a surveillance system. We currently have enough classroom space by combining art, muic, and computer class space to allow for smaller class size in seventh grade. Handicap access is adequate. We have city water and underground electricity. We recently installed dormer windows above the doors in the third and the fifth grade classrooms so that those rooms have some natural light. New tile floors were installed in five rooms last summer to cover old asbestos tile and to remove old carpet. Although our facility is clean and well maintained, there are several improvements that we would like to see. We would like to see the oldest restroom facilities remodeled, fans in all restrooms, and stall improvements in all the restrooms. We would like to install drop ceilings in the fifth grade and third grade rooms to reduce echoes. We would like to see a computer lab equipped with PC's instead of Apple II e computers. We would like to have additional lighting and video surveillance cameras outside the building. Our cafeteria staff would like to upgrade the ...Read More