Harlem Elementary School

Preparing a child for success in tomorrow’s world is an awesome task. Here at Harlem Elementary School, that’s our goal: to help all students become successful by providing the best learning opportunities. We achieve this through the hard work of our veteran faculty and staff, our positive learning environment, good communications with parents, and strong instruction, standards, and technology.

We have approximately 280 students, kindergarten through 6th grade, with three classrooms/teachers at each grade level to better support our students and to provide more teacher contact for each student, each day. We also offer a full-time certified counseling service to support qualifying students, and a school nurse.

Harlem Elementary School (HES) has a strong and well-established reading and math program and a Title I teacher to support those areas. Additionally, all of our students receive highly qualified instruction in Art, Physical Education, Library, Technology and Music.  We also provide additional inclusion of area native culture (Gros Ventre and Assiniboine) in all areas of instruction.

HES also provides an after-school tutoring program each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and summer school opportunities—both to support our students academically and to assist the families.

With a motto of Follow our Tracks as We: Learn from the Past, Live in the Present, and Prepare for the Future, HES students are proud of what they accomplish here and love to share what and how they are learning. So come and visit our school.

Harlem Junior/Senior High School

With approximately 238 students in the 7th-12th grades, our teaching philosophy centers on RESPECT—for and between students, parents, faculty and staff. We care about the well being, academic and emotional, of all who come to learn in our classrooms, and are particularly dedicated to helping elementary students transition to junior high school (7th -8th grade). We also believe that discipline is a form of love, which means we hold our students accountable for their actions. All this helps us with our goal of again graduating 100% of our students toward a successful life path.

To help boost student achievement during the critical Criterion Reference Test—which measures learning in math, science and language arts during the month of March—we offer our Building Leadership Team. Comprised of teachers, the group meets monthly to discuss ways to increase student achievement and to reward hard-working students who attend class.  We also have leadership teams in the areas of math, reading and social sciences

Harlem High also encourages our students to aspire to higher education: After graduation, many attend nearby Fort Belknap Community College — on the Fort Belknap Reservation three miles from Harlem—and other primary schools in the state, such as Northern Montana University in Havre.

But while here at Harlem High, we want to give our students the best balance of work and fun. So we also offer extracurricular activities that can improve the mind, spirit, and body. Many also emphasize team playing, which is also important in academics. Our students are dedicated players and we all in the community who support these activities. Remember, together we can do what we can’t do alone. Thank you for supporting our school district.