Workman Avenue School is located in the city of West Covina. The school is part of the Covina-Valley Unified School District, which includes ten elementary schools serving grades K-5, three middle schools serving grades 6-8, three comprehensive high schools, and one alternative school.

Workman Schools opened in 1956 and currently serves 465 students in grades TK through fifth grade. Workman's diverse student population is represented by 73% Hispanic, 10% Caucasian, 6% African American, 3 % Asian, 3 % Filipino students and 5% other subgroups. Approximately, 19.4% of our students are English Language Learners.

Workman School, a school-wide Title I school, receives categorical funding from Title 1, based on its 65% free/reduced lunch population. Workman School received the Title 1 Achieving School Award in 2009. The special education program consists of two SAI (Specialized Academic Instruction) classes serving students in TK through fifth grades.

At Workman, learning is our daily priority. Our school wide instructional focus is Reading Comprehension! Our staff and faculty are utilizing research-based instructional strategies to ensure that all Workman students demonstrate significant measurable growth in their ability to read and comprehend grade-level text. Two practices that we see implemented daily in the classroom are teaching close reading strategies and utilizing Thinking Maps to increase reading comprehension. Every area of learning is important at Workman, but Reading Comprehension is invaluable for our students to grow into the lifelong learners that we expect.

Workman Avenue Elementary School has wide behavior expectations that consist of  intervention practices and organizational systems for establishing the social culture, learning and teaching environment, and individual behavior supports needed to achieve academic and social success for all students.

The main focus of Behavioral Expectations is to provide a clear system for expected behaviors at Workman Elementary.  We will work to create and maintain a productive, safe environment in which ALL school community members have clear expectations and understandings of their role in the educational process.

Workman staff promote a proactive approach to School-Wide Discipline that implements systems of behavior expectations and support focusing on taking a team-based  approach and teaching appropriate behavior to all students in the school.  Workman has been successful in building school-wide systems and develop procedures to accomplish the following:

1.  Behavioral Expectations are Defined.   A small number of clearly defined behavioral expectations are defined in positive, simple rules:

• Be Safe 

• Be Respectful

• Be Responsible

• Be Ready

2. Behavioral Expectations are Taught.  The behavioral expectations are taught to all students in real contexts.  Teaching appropriate behavior involves much more than simply telling students what behaviors they should avoid.