FIRST WINNER
OF THE PEARL COOPER
“SCHOOL
THAT READS” AWARD
PRESENTED BY
PEGGY COOPER CAFRITZ, DCPS SCHOOL BOARD
PRESIDENT
Benjamin Stoddert Elementary School, named after the first
U.S. Secretary of the Navy, is located in the Glover Park
neighborhood of Northwest Washington, DC just north of
Georgetown. The Glover Park community is an established
neighborhood full of old trees and housing dating back to
the 1920s and 1930s, and surrounded by forested parkland,
the Glover-Archbold Park. The community is rich in
resources such as Stoddert Elementary School, the
Georgetown Public Library, the DC Parks and Recreation
Department's Guy Mason Center, Georgetown University,
American University, as well as Georgetown University
Hospital. Residents are proud of their community, and value
its greenspaces and proximity to urban amenities.
Stoddert's
student population is drawn from the neighborhoods of
Glover Park and Burleith (between Georgetown and Glover
Park), as well as welcoming a number of Out-of-Boundary
students who reside throughout the District and Bolling Air
Force Base. Today, Stoddert is a diverse school that lives
global interdependence and cross-cultural understanding.
Indeed, over half of the students are identified as
language minority students from numerous Asian, European,
African and Latin American countries.