Mountain View Elementary

Our goal is to create a garden space where displaced and low resource families can have grow boxes, elementary school students can have outdoor science opportunities, community learning center clients can have a quiet moment, and the entire community can come together in an inviting space in a low resource inner city neighborhood. 90% of Mountain View's 649 students are low resource, 58% are English language learners and 31 native languages are represented in the school population. 86% of the children are 'minority' making this a minority majority school. The entire campus consists of Mountain View Elementary, Glendale Middle School, and the Glendale Community Learning Center (CLC) which houses a health clinic, early childhood education classrooms, ESL classes, a large kitchen for classes and cultural exchange, after school tutoring facilities and a computer lab, and many other community partner offerings. The garden will replace one that was torn down due to construction.