About
Happy Hollow
School
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Opened in January, 1955, the Happy Hollow School
is the oldest of Wayland's "new" schools. Enrollment in the school
has ranged between its opening number of 225 pupils and 590 during
the sixties when school additions were constructed in rapid
succession. The school underwent space additions in 1963, 1974, and
1999. Its core facilities were renovated in the summer of 1993.
Currently, it houses an enrollment of about 400 children in 18 class
sections, grades K-5, with about 80 full-time and part-time faculty and
support staff.
The school has a system of core values which it
attempts to live out through active teaching of social competencies
skills. Key to the school's success is its instructional program
which is rich in literature, mathematics, composition and technology.
Music, art, physical education, library and research skills, band and
orchestra are all part of the school's basic program. Happy Hollow
has a long established philosophy of inclusive instruction for
children with moderate to significant challenges. The school also has
a well developed attitude with parents that "we are in this
together."