Calvary Bilingual
Multicultural Learning Center (The Learning Center)
has evolved into a full-service education and family
support entity serving over 400 children ages 0-18
and families. The anchor of the center is its full-day,
year-round bilingual pre-school program for children
ages two to five. Other services offered by Calvary
include a family institute, healthy families program
for first-time parents, a technology learning center,
multidisciplinary arts opportunities, tutoring, and
professional development training. The learning center
strives to be an integral part of the neighborhood
environment in which culturally rich but economically
poor working families and their children reside. Many
of the families served are first generation immigrants
whose first language is Spanish. Children from The
Learning Center feed into four public schools; Tubman
Elementary is one of these schools.
Tubman Elementary
School will serve as the first partner elementary
feeder school for the SPARK initiative in this ward.
Of the children attending Tubman, 46.7% are African
American, 48.5% are Latino, 0.5% are White, and 4.3%
are Asian. Ninety seven percent (97%) of the students
attending this school are eligible for free or reduced
lunch (DCPS).
