Kettering Elementary is a Comprehensive School with enrollment of 449 students. The School offers the following core curriculum: Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Technology. Students in primary grades K-5 receive instruction in traditional self-contained classrooms. Teachers implement daily instruction using block scheduling as follows: K-1 instruction for reading in 150 minutes, Gr. 2-5 instruction for reading in 120 minutes. Grade 6 will not be apart of our instructional program for the very first time. Students in grade 6, 2005-06 will experience Middle School this fall. Math instruction is 90 minutes for grades K-5. The instructional day begins at 7:45am and ends at 1:55pm. All teachers implement the Voluntary State Curriculum (VSC) by using the aligned curriculum frameworks.

Kettering Elementary School’s student population is predominately from the Kettering-Largo areas of Prince George’s County. There are seventy-seven (77) students enrolled in full-day kindergarten; seventy-three (73) students in first grade; one hundred four (104) students in second grade, one hundred nineteen (119) students in third grade; one hundred seven (107) students in fourth grade, one hundred twenty two (122) students in fifth grade; and one hundred fifty six (156) students in sixth grade. This population is comprised of three hundred sixty-three (363) males and three hundred ninety-five (395) females. The student teacher ratio is 28:1 in primary grades and 32:1 in the intermediate grades.

The professional staff is comprised of one (1) principal, one (1) vice-principal, 43 professional staff members of whom 27 are African-American and 16 are Caucasian. Among the staff 27 teachers have advanced professional certificates, 8 have standard professional certificates and 8 have provisional certificates. The number of faculty by years of teaching experience is: 8 teachers have 0-2 years, 5 teachers have 3-5 years, 4 teachers have 6-10 years, 3 have 11-15 years and 23 staff members have 16+ years. The support staff consists of 22 members of whom 20 are African-American and 2 are Caucasian. The support positions include 3 secretaries, 1 health aide, 1 building supervisor, 1 cafeteria manager, 4 instructional aides, 7 group activity assistants, 1 Before and After Care coordinator, and 4 cafeteria assistants.