{"id":23462,"date":"2019-08-15T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:42:06","slug":"ems-starts-year-with-record-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2019\/08\/ems-starts-year-with-record-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS Starts Year with Increased Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eastern Mennonite School will welcome 354 students this fall, up 11 students K-12 from the previous year with 94 students in K-5, 100 students in middle school and 160 in high school. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled with the high energy and growing diversity of our student body, faculty and staff,\u201d says Paul Leaman, head of school. \u201cOur vision is to be a school where every student thrives and belongs,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe are working hard to fulfill that vision and welcome each person and the unique story they bring.\u201d<\/p>\n

This years\u2019 students come from a wide range of communities with family addresses in Bergton, Bridgewater, Broadway, Churchville, Dayton, Edinburg, Elkton, Grottoes, Keezletown, Linville, Hinton, Harrisonburg, McGaheysville, Monroe, Mount Jackson, Mt. Crawford, Mt. Sidney, New Market, Penn Laird, Port Republic, Quicksburg, Rockingham, Singers Glen, Staunton, Timberville, Waynesboro, Weyers Cave and Woodstock. <\/p>\n

Two out-of-state students are coming from Illinois and Michigan to live with local host families, while eight international high school students come from Nigeria, South Korea, China, and South Africa, also will live in local homes. <\/p>\n

Faith traditions represented among students include Anglican, Buddhist, Catholic, Church of the Brethren, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Evangelical, Judaism, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Mennonite, Muslim, Nazarene, Seventh Day Adventist and United Methodist.<\/p>\n

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The 12 people joining EMS faculty and staff bring varied experiences as well. Pictured front row, left to right: Erin Williams (EMES art and K assistant), Claudia Fencer (HS science), Jen Stoltzfus (EMES office assistant), Erika Gascho (5th grade teacher), Laurie Loucks (academic lab, English for Internationals), Sarah Mitch (HS science and boarding coordinator). Back row, left to right: Kristi Sturm, Edith Emswiler, Deb Pardini, Devin Archie (dining hall team with Pardini as manager); Emily Moyer-Warren (reading assistant, 3rd grade assistant teacher). Not pictured, Valeria Eshleman-Robles (HS Spanish). Photo by Andrew Gascho.<\/p>\n

Two are native Spanish speakers. One is a veterinarian, one is a dance choreographer, another a mixed media artist, and one played professional basketball in Croatia for a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a diverse community of learners we are,\u201d concludes Leaman. \u201cCelebrate with us!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eastern Mennonite School will welcome 354 students this fall, up 11 students K-12 from the previous year with 94 students in K-5, 100 students in middle school and 160 in high school. \u201cWe are thrilled with the high energy and growing diversity of our student body, faculty and staff,\u201d says Paul Leaman, head of school.\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[26,319,40,133,25],"class_list":["post-23462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-academics","tag-diversity","tag-elementary","tag-emhs","tag-middle-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}