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Your donations have impacted my student's learning in a very positive way. The impact will go further than you could ever imagine. We greatly appreciate your support.","fullyFundedDate":1754256458789,"projectUrl":"project/getting-ready-for-the-kindergarten/9515381/","projectTitle":"Getting ready for the Kindergarten!","teacherDisplayName":"Teacher Morales-Montelongo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4351431_orig.jpg?crop=640,640,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659844140959","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4351431"},{"teacherId":9152502,"projectId":9667106,"letterContent":"Our students have LOVED using the tonie boxes and figures! It has been a fun, calming and engaging activity for students to do independently. Thank you for the donation to our classroom. Your generous donation has made a positive impact in our classroom. Our students feel empowered because they can operate the Tonie box on their own and they are learning through the stories and activities. \r\n\r\nThank you again for your donation, we can thank you enough for all you have done to contribute to our classroom! \r\n\r\nWith a grateful heart,\r\n\r\nMrs. Selbo and class","fullyFundedDate":1760693521115,"projectUrl":"project/story-time-comes-alive/9667106/","projectTitle":"Story Time Comes Alive!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Selbo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9152502_orig.jpg?crop=1170,1170,x0,y66&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1691033325665","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9152502"},{"teacherId":3682974,"projectId":9465440,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to my project, Welcome to Kindergarten! The beginning of a new school year is so exciting and I love setting my classroom up for student success. This project helped me provide my students with individual supply bags, that has everything they need throughout the day. Students are able to access their supplies and books independently throughout the day, to complete all our reading, writing, and math activities each day. My class also uses dry erase markers, sleeves and erasers each day during our phonics lesson. These dry erase supplies allow my students to learn how to form each uppercase and lowercase letter and now my students are starting to write words by themselves! 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Once on the carpet I heard things like, \"This is so soft!\" and \"I love this!\" \r\nThey sat their little bodies down and then started rubbing their fingers over the carpet. To get their attention back we played a game about our five senses. Touch: soft; See: bright, pretty; Smell: new smell, fresh; Hear: quiet when we walk; and Taste: we decided we couldn't eat our new carpet; we love it too much!\r\nWe use our new carpet every day. We meet for our morning meeting, our main lesson on letters and sounds, we listen to books, we learn about our calendar and have our math lesson. Other fun things that occur on our carpet: we get to dance, put together puzzles, and read books (both big books and our library books!)\r\nThank you again for your generosity and supporting our classroom! 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Students were excited to wear their badges and are already motivated by the reward system. \r\n\r\nThanks to your support, we're starting the year organized and engaged. Our next step is using these tools during math problem-solving projects where students rotate through stations and work together on challenges.","fullyFundedDate":1746785457998,"projectUrl":"project/ready-to-learn-supplies-for-a-new-schoo/9285139/","projectTitle":"Ready to Learn: Supplies for a New School Year","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gossett","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9789382_orig.jpg?crop=956,956,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1727908816922","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9789382"},{"teacherId":8535687,"projectId":9390293,"letterContent":"The Books Bins and Belonging project has had a wonderful impact on pur library. 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About this school
Cleveland Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that is part of Oklahoma City School District.
It serves 441 students
in grades Pre-K - 4 with a student/teacher ratio of 22.0:1.
Its teachers have had 238 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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Source: the National Center for Education Statistics
53%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
Data about school demographics comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. The numbers in this chart may not add up to 100% because of limitations in the available data.
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Last updated Dec 5, 2025
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Cleveland Elementary School
$131,114
raised using DonorsChoose
238
projects
funded
50
teachers
funded
499
donors
16
projects
for
basic supplies
25
projects for
technology
35
projects for
books
11
projects
for
art supplies
Cleveland Elementary School has received support from
384 individuals from Oklahoma and
115 individuals out-of-state.