Bradley Elementary School

School Description

Bradley is the first elementary school in Denver Public Schools to be authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School offering the IB Primary Years Programme for students Pre-K through fifth grade. The IB PYP is an international curriculum that focuses on the students’ social, physical, emotional, and cultural development in addition to academic growth. IB PYP schools have proven to promote critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and informed participants in local and global affairs. At the center of the IP PYP curriculum are five essential elements: knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes, and actions.

Bradley Elementary was named in honor of Charles Allen Bradley, a teacher at East High School in 1883, a vice principal at East in 1891, and principal of the Manual Training High School in 1893. He retired in June of 1928. Bradley Elementary School was one of twelve elementary schools within the Denver Public School system completed in 1952. The building houses twenty-nine classrooms, library, gymnasium, auditorium and cafeteria. It has a capacity of about 700 students. Bradley offers Early Childhood Education (ECE), Kindergarten, and first through fifth grade.

Learning Landscape Description

The design reflects Bradley's newly aquired International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. The Learning Landscape features three age appropriate play areas, turf play area, crusher fine track, community gateway, and a shade structure built upon the focal point of the design, a five foot high mound. Two acres of the site will be completed during phase II of construction when the remaining antiquated play equpment and pea gravel will be replaced with community garden and sod area.