{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Pritchett Academy","outOfStateSupporters":41.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10318581,"projectId":9842666,"letterContent":"When our new materials arrived, my students were so excited—they could hardly wait for me to open the boxes. As we unpacked everything together, their faces lit up with curiosity and joy. Many of my students immediately gravitated toward the calm-down corner items, exploring the sensory tools and learning how to use them to regulate their emotions. Others jumped right into sorting books, organizing supplies, and helping set up the new shelves. It instantly made our classroom feel more structured, calm, and inviting.\r\nWe've already started using the resources daily. The calm-down tools have given students a safe space to reset when they feel overwhelmed, which has made a noticeable difference in our classroom climate. The prize bin has become a motivating reinforcement system, and the added storage has helped us keep materials organized so students can engage more independently. One moment that really stood out was seeing a student who normally struggles with frustration independently go to the calm-down corner, use a sensory tool, and return ready to learn—something they hadn't been able to do before.\r\nBecause of your generosity, my students are better equipped to stay focused, build independence, and feel proud of their learning environment. Our next steps include diving deeper into literacy activities using our now-organized book area and continuing to strengthen self-regulation skills with the tools you helped provide. Your support didn't just supply materials—it transformed daily routines and opened new opportunities for growth.\r\nThank you for making such a meaningful impact on our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1760982200244,"projectUrl":"project/building-readers-together/9842666/","projectTitle":"Building Readers Together","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hunt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10318581"},{"teacherId":1845636,"projectId":9847385,"letterContent":"THANK YOU! I am truly grateful for Donor's Choose setting up the Donor's Choose Student Hunger Fund that was established to support project ideas that address food insecurity and projects supporting ways to bring easy access to shelf-stable and easy to prepare meal items to our students and their families. I am so thankful for Donor's Choose, for this platform, helping us obtain important and necessary resources for our families, and for all the donors that have contributed across the country to the Student Hunger Fund. Thank you so much for funding my entire project, \"Help Restock My Classroom Pantry for Families this Winter Season!\" Your kind hearts and your generosity make the world a better place. \r\n\r\nI was so excited to be able to re-stock my classroom pantry for families, ensuring families that are unhoused or in need of food resources have quick access to easy to prepare meals and breakfast items. My heart was so happy to see my project fully funded within 7 days of my project being posted and then food items started to arrive almost instantly, arriving just in time for the Thanksgiving break, where I was able to provide and deliver food items to families for the long break! Just INCREDIBLE! This would not of been possible without your generosity and quick response to support my project. \r\n\r\nThank you to all the donors for making the world a better place for our students and families and for supporting educators in their efforts to bring important resources to their schools and classrooms.","fullyFundedDate":1763498709050,"projectUrl":"project/help-restock-my-classroom-pantry-for-fam/9847385/","projectTitle":"Help Restock My Classroom Pantry for Families this Winter Season!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Eller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1845636_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1532705285613","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachercity"},{"teacherId":1845636,"projectId":5399365,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing instruments to our school community and for supporting my project, \"The Halls are Alive with the Sound of Music\" in honor of your beautiful sister. It was an absolute blessing to receive so many instruments through your generosity and your kind hearts! We were able to provide instruments to students when we did not have instruments available for them and this would not have been possible without your support and kind hearts. \r\n\r\nIn addition, we were also able to start our middle school band program on time because of your generosity as we did not have instruments at the time for students to get started. Your kind and generous hearts made this possible. \r\n\r\nThank you again for your kindness. I am truly grateful for your support and for all of the instruments your funding provided to students. Thank you for supporting educators through the Donors Choose platform and thank you for making the world a better place.","fullyFundedDate":1621523997828,"projectUrl":"project/the-halls-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-mu/5399365/","projectTitle":"The Halls are Alive with the Sound of Music","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Eller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1845636_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1532705285613","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachercity"},{"teacherId":9159390,"projectId":9416314,"letterContent":"This project has been incredibly beneficial to my students. The books we received have greatly enhanced our classroom library, and the teacher read-alouds have provided valuable opportunities for whole group learning, building both knowledge and community.\r\n\r\nThe classroom supplies—including markers, paper, and pencil sharpeners—have been a fantastic addition. Having these items readily available ensures that students can focus on learning without worrying about materials.\r\n\r\nThe cleaning supplies and organizational items have helped keep our classroom tidy and well-structured. Students truly enjoy being in a clean, welcoming environment, and it motivates them to come to school ready to learn. Additionally, the large chart paper has been especially helpful for creating anchor charts that support my visual learners.\r\n\r\nThank you for supporting our classroom and helping create a space where students can thrive!","fullyFundedDate":1756497370482,"projectUrl":"project/new-year-new-supplies/9416314/","projectTitle":"New Year New Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Jones","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9159390_orig.jpg?crop=1805,1805,x0,y48&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725798750981","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9159390"},{"teacherId":1845636,"projectId":8888837,"letterContent":"My heart is incredibly grateful for all the support and funding I have received through the Donor's Choose platform. I thank each of you, from the bottom of my heart, for your immediate response in supporting my Donor's Choose project, \"Help Re-Stock Our Classroom Pantry with Motel Friendly Foods!\" As educators, we can identify a need and/or barrier we see as a classroom teacher for our students and families in accessing resources and supports and create an innovative project and/or solution to address the need and/or barrier that is sustainable using the Donor's Choose platform to help bring our ideas to life! As a result, because of individuals like each of you, that have an incredibly HUGE HEART, we have immediate access to supports and resources! I thank each of you for your help and for supporting our ideas and projects! Your kindness and your donations allowed me to restock my classroom pantry and have motel-friendly and shelf stable food items readily available for families including can openers. I also started a Sunshine Bag project a few years ago to help support our families experiencing displacement and homelessness. Through generous funding received through the Donors Choose platform, I have been able to provide families that are unhoused or displaced with a duffel bags, when I have the resources available, filled with motel friendly foods, toiletries, blankets, laundry detergent, pajamas, socks, activities for kids, books and so much more! When the duffel bags needed to be refilled for families, students would bring the duffel bags back in and I would be able to fill them with any items they needed all because of the support from the community and from donors. The funding you provided allowed me to have a stocked pantry in my classroom and when families are in need of food I am able to have items readily available. I am forever grateful for the continued support through this platform and thank you for your giving heart.","fullyFundedDate":1734575989146,"projectUrl":"project/help-re-stock-our-classroom-pantry-with/8888837/","projectTitle":"Help Re-Stock Our Classroom Pantry with Motel Friendly Foods","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Eller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1845636_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1532705285613","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachercity"},{"teacherId":9159390,"projectId":9059602,"letterContent":"Thank you for your contribution to my classroom. Having headphones for my students allowed them to be able to focus during state testing time, as well as during small groups and independent times. They enjoy being able to listen what was is happening on their iReady and or Imagine Learning games and lessons. Having more pencils allows my students to be able to complete their school work and have a writing utensil everyday.\r\n\r\nMy students were very excited when they saw that we received new headphones and pencils for the classroom. They were happy to have new items to use while learning in the classroom and during small group time. \r\n\r\n As we gear up the end of the school year, we will continue using these items to use during independent time learning.","fullyFundedDate":1745953554250,"projectUrl":"project/sharp-learning-and-listening-ears/9059602/","projectTitle":"Sharp Learning and Listening Ears","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Jones","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9159390_orig.jpg?crop=1805,1805,x0,y48&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725798750981","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9159390"},{"teacherId":420192,"projectId":8770242,"letterContent":"The project \" Characters that look like me\" was very successul. Some of the books vibrant pictures really helped my students that struggled with reading to be able to participate in classroom discussions. \"Characters that look like me\" led to really great conversations about what Africans Americans have gone through during slavery, the civil rights moment and even today. Students love to read the stories with characters that remind them of themselves. It helps them to connect with the text they are reading about which helps to build a stronger love for reading.","fullyFundedDate":1736437959852,"projectUrl":"project/characters-that-look-like-me/8770242/","projectTitle":"Characters that look like Me!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. E.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp420192_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1449404019847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/misst-everett"},{"teacherId":1845636,"projectId":8165204,"letterContent":"Good Morning! Thank you so much for your support and generous donation to help fully fund my \"Grow Our Own Garden Library\" Donors Choose project. It was truly EXCITING to put so many amazing brand-new picture books to inspire gardening and innovation in the hands of students in my first grade buddy classroom. They did such a wonderful job last year learning about gardening and growing fresh greens right inside their classroom. Our 1st grade \"gardeners\" learned how to prepare and grow their seedlings, transfer their seedlings to a classroom hydroponics system and finish their first harvest of fresh lettuce in collaborative, innovative and exciting way! When their harvest was ready, they led the work in preparing fresh bags of lettuce for a local shelter near our school. This year, as second graders they are going to lead the work with our new first graders during the school day and in our after-school programming! \r\n\r\nIt was so EXCITING to see all of the brand-new picture books arrive! Students were surprised when they walked in their 1st grade classroom and saw so many books displayed on their desks. Some of the titles they received included \"Something, Someday\" by Author and Poet Amanda Gorman and Author and Illustrator Christian Robinson and \"Miguel's Community Garden\" by Author and Illustrator Janay Brown-Wood and Samara Hardy. So many fun and inspiring titles to spark the joy of gardening and envisioning what could be with a new idea and some teamwork. They also received \"In Our Garden\" by Author Pat Zietlow Miller and Illustrator Melissa Crowton, \"Jayden's Impossible Garden\" by Author and Illustrator Melina Mangal and Ken Daley, \"Lola Plants a Garden\" by Author and Illustrator Anna McQuinn and Rosalind Beardshaw! Many of the authors also commented online regarding their stories being a part of this project! \r\n\r\nYour generosity helped to spark so much joy in reading and make connections to what students were working on and learning in the classroom about gardening and watching fresh greens grow and come to life right inside their classroom! This year we also just received new equipment from Fork Farms for students to grow their impact even more and student gardeners will be working on bringing back to life a community garden. \r\n\r\nThank you for helping teachers with bringing their projects to life and also helping us build on what we are doing inside our classrooms and in our schools. The books you helped to fund was the perfect ending and surprise to their hard work at the end of the school year as they left for summer vacation. Our 1st grade gardeners were able to keep all of their books and take them home for some fun summer reading. \r\n\r\nI will forever be grateful for your generosity and kindness.","fullyFundedDate":1712349250658,"projectUrl":"project/grow-our-own-garden-library/8165204/","projectTitle":"Grow Our Own Garden Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Eller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1845636_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1532705285613","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachercity"},{"teacherId":1845636,"projectId":8165719,"letterContent":"Greetings & Happy Fall! \r\n\r\nI wanted to share with you how incredibly grateful I am for your generosity in helping to fund my Donors Choose project, \"Support Our Athletic Program-Healthy Snacks for Our Amazing Student Athletes\" when it was posted. I posted my project and within 5 days it was fully funded by each of you and the incredible staff at Donors Choose then ordered the items the very next day and they were ready to ship. Your kindness provided after-school snacks to our student athletes. Whether it was before practice, after practice or even during the school day having snacks readily available ensured students were able to be energized during the day and after a full day of learning and before and after practice! Having snacks available to our middle school student athletes after school provided a resource I did not have for students and I was so grateful to each of you because this project you funded allowed me to have snacks available for all of our student athletes across all of our sports. Middle school lunches start early and after a full day of learning, it was super awesome to have snacks available after school. \r\n\r\nI am truly appreciative of your thoughtful contribution. Thank you for investing in our amazing and incredible students. Thank you for believing in the work we do. Your investment in my classroom made a real difference and your continued work in supporting schools, educators and students is making a true difference in the world. Our student athletes appreciated the snacks and it was awesome to have them readily available which was only because of your kindness. Thank you for your commitment to education and for helping provide valuable resources not only to my school but to all of the classrooms and schools you continue to help and support. \r\n\r\nThank you for making the world a better place.","fullyFundedDate":1708223482836,"projectUrl":"project/support-our-athletic-program-healthy-sna/8165719/","projectTitle":"Support Our Athletic Program-Healthy Snacks for Our Amazing Student Athletes!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Eller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1845636_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1532705285613","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachercity"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_44577","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":615,"numTeachers":30,"percentFrplEligible":71,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":84,"percentWhite":5,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":6,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"1 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"20.5:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":58.6,"schoolId":44577,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Pritchett Academy on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Pritchett Academy","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/delaware/christina-school-district/bancroft-elementary-school/44577"}