Monroe is an at-risk Title I school with a population of 744 students and 120 preschool students. Sixty-five percent of Monroe students are English Language Learners. Twenty-one different languages are spoken at the school. Eighty percent of the students at Monroe qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Monroe Elementary needs books for their library and for their families. The books collected by Rowland Hall will be used to support families who are learning English. Not only will the children benefit from your donations, but the parents will as well. These books will be sent home with the children so that parents may also learn English. All levels of books are needed-pre-school, elementary, and junior high school books are all appropriate. Even some adult books would be appreciated. 

Donation boxes will be available at each of four locations: the beginning, lower, middle and upper schools, through the closing day of the book fair. A donation box will also be available in front of the library on the McCarthey Campus. As a special incentive, on October 9th, Home & School will have a limited number of free book bags to give to the first donors bringing ten or more books to the four primary locations.

Let's see if we can send a book home with every child from Monroe!