{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Leroy Greene Academy","outOfStateSupporters":38.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10317177,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of a brand new hi-hat stand for our drum set for our after school jazz band and regular concert band classes during the regular day. Our hi-hat stands have been in disarray, and to not function properly due to missing clutches and other parts. This makes it impossible for the hi-hat to open and close properly. Now, our students can play in the open and closed positions. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public school systems.","fullyFundedDate":1787290822231,"projectUrl":"project/a-better-stand-is-needed/10317177/","projectTitle":"A Better Stand Is Needed!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10317138,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation that led to the purchase of a new drum set for our after school jazz band. I was waiting for a drum kit to get start with the group and now feel ready to go. The drums are the most important piece in the jazz big band group and can really make or break the group. This kit has a smaller bass drum that will give us a more authentic jazz band sound than the big rock kits we currently have. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public school systems. Thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1787320690738,"projectUrl":"project/a-jazz-kit-that-fits/10317138/","projectTitle":"A Jazz Kit That Fits!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10208363,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four new classics for young concert band. The Great Rubber Chicken Galop has been getting lots of buzz from the band director community and I am excited to share it with my students and families as a novelty piece. Hypnotic Fireflies is a piece I've wanted to perform for a while but never had the right group. I feel next year could be the year. Lullaby for the Moon and Joyful Variants are new to me but I am excited to eventually program them.","fullyFundedDate":1787136752598,"projectUrl":"project/lullaby-of-the-hypnotic-joyful-rubber-c/10208363/","projectTitle":"Lullaby of the Hypnotic, Joyful Rubber Chicken!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10192786,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to these three compositions being purchased. Two of these works are Christmas songs, that would make wonderful, lyrical, additions to our Winter program. I'm excited to work with this very pastoral setting of \"Stille Nacht\" (Silent Night). I'm also looking forward to rehearsing the Polish Carol \"On Christmas Night\", a melody I've never worked with before. Both of these pieces would fit nicely into a \"Christmas around the World\" theme. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public school systems!","fullyFundedDate":1785302911177,"projectUrl":"project/a-christmas-who-done-it/10192786/","projectTitle":"A Christmas Who Done It?","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10206451,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four modern band pieces from Band Quest. Band Quest compositions commissions composers who usually write for collegiate and professional ensembles and has them write music for advanced middle school or intermediate high school ensembles. These compositions usually have advanced techniques or modern notation, but with limited note and rhythmic choices. Now that our bands are separated into three ability based ensembles, we should be able to achieve these pieces soon.Thank you for always supporting music education in our public school systems!","fullyFundedDate":1783862055676,"projectUrl":"project/fulfilling-our-band-quest-part-deux/10206451/","projectTitle":"Fulfilling Our Band Quest Part Deux!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10199382,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four orchestral transcription pieces for our concert band programs. Although I love new, original, hip concert band pieces from the past five years, it is important to be able to perform classical historical pieces from the renaissance, baroque, classical, and romantic periods. Teaching these types of pieces is vital to a complete music education, as they require different techniques and styles. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public school systems!","fullyFundedDate":1778034428708,"projectUrl":"project/music-works-man/10199382/","projectTitle":"Music Works, Man!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10198742,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four compositions meant for our sixth grade beginning band students. I like to have my students perform easy, full band arrangements for their end of the year, Spring Concert alongside their short, unison, method book pieces These four compositions are grade level one-half to one, which is would be easily playable by students in their first year of band. Thank you for always supporting arts education classes in our public school systems!","fullyFundedDate":1778548305253,"projectUrl":"project/spooky-dragon-starsplitter-character/10198742/","projectTitle":"Spooky Dragon Starsplitter Character","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10191387,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four new jazz charts for next year's after school jazz band. These charts will add variety and more options to our jazz library. This project features jazz standards like \"Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West\", \"There Will Never Be Another You\", and \"The Theme\", as well as a new composition, in \"Riffology\" that compiles a bunch of blues riffs into one chart. Thank you for all you do to always support music education in our public schools.","fullyFundedDate":1776493485253,"projectUrl":"project/two-degrees-east-there-will-never-be-an/10191387/","projectTitle":"Two Degrees East, There Will Never Be Another You, Riffology Groove Theme","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10113192,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of four new jazz charts by tenor saxophone performers and composers. This project features charts by Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, and Lester Young, three tenor saxophone giants. I am gathering charts to have a jazz music library set for when we start our after school jazz band next fall in the 2026-2027 school year. All four of these charts are wonderful standards and welcome additions to our library. Thank you for always support music education in our public school system!","fullyFundedDate":1776144114756,"projectUrl":"project/tenor-madness-for-our-jazz-band/10113192/","projectTitle":"Tenor Madness for Our Jazz Band!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10163134,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of five new \"Bubbert\" jazz compositions for our afterschool jazz ensemble. The \"Bubbert\" pieces are tongue and cheek composition that follow the spy \"Bubbert\" through an array of different places and therefore styles and genres. These compositions go from a 60's boogaloo to Brazilian bossa nova to western swing to lad back swing and straight eighths rock. Thank you are always for supporting music and arts education in our public school classrooms!","fullyFundedDate":1776109457645,"projectUrl":"project/bubbert-comes-to-lga/10163134/","projectTitle":"Bubbert Comes to LGA","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9893709,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of three compositions that were requested by one of our seventh grade alto saxophonists. I love it when my students take a vested interest in what we play and band music as a whole and love to reward them when they do so. This student has been listening to band music on J.W. Pepper and watching videos of bands play the selections of You Tube and sent me an email with his favorites. While we had most of them, these were the ones that we were missing. Thank you for helping me collect all the pieces a young music student wants to play!","fullyFundedDate":1773855070262,"projectUrl":"project/total-request-live-2/9893709/","projectTitle":"Total Request Live #2!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10120889,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led towards the purchase of these beginning band charts for our sixth grade classes. Each semester, I have three sections of thirty to thirty-five of sixth grade beginning band. Some years, I have them play together and some years they each play their own pieces. Because of this, it is important to have a wide selection of pieces that only use the first six or seven notes, since I do not like to repeat works. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public schools.","fullyFundedDate":1773901760247,"projectUrl":"project/beginning-charts-for-better-starts/10120889/","projectTitle":"Beginning Charts for Better Starts!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_103799","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":753,"numTeachers":40,"percentFrplEligible":64,"percentAsian":15,"percentBlack":13,"percentWhite":15,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":44,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":1,"percentMultiracialImputed":9,"gradesServed":"6 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"18.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":61.7,"schoolId":103799,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Leroy Greene Academy on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Leroy Greene Academy","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/natomas-unified-school-district/leroy-greene-academy/103799"}