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Garrison Elementary School
PRINCIPAL:
Salyon Johnson
ADDRESS:
649 W. Jones St., Savannah
PHONE:
651-7601
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:
752
RACIAL MAKEUP:
93 percent non-white; 7 percent white
STUDENT/TEACHER RATIO:
15 to 1
MAGNET:
The Biological Sciences Academy
SCHOOL SUMMARY:
Garrison Elementary School, which opened in the early 1990s, was named for the late Esther Garrison, who served on the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education for 20 years and was known for her efforts to integrate the city's schools. She was appointed to the board in 1965 as one of its first black members.
The school's magnet program offers specialized instruction in the study of plants and animals. The learning environment features classroom containing a garden laboratory program, animals, aquariums and Internet access. Curriculum includes weekly hands-on science activities in a lab setting. Outdoor classrooms include three courtyards, a greenhouse, wildlife habitat and garden plots. Students also go camping, "adopt" streams and beaches, and go on overnight visits to local environmental education camps.
All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
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