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Mission
Cityscape Schools exists to work in an educational partnership with families. We desire to provide a distinctive environment of educational opportunity for all children and young people in our community. Cityscape students will have the opportunity to become well prepared, life-long learners possessing the character, knowledge, and wisdom necessary to succeed, lead, and contribute to their community and to society.
Vision
Our vision is to work in partnership with families to prepare children and young people to fulfill productive leadership roles in society.
Instructional Highlights
Buckner Prep offers Pre K - 8th Grade
🏆 Points of Pride
Our Dual Language program provides students with the opportunity to learn how to speak, read, write, think and listen in English and Spanish.
Our population is reflective of the community, and we are proud to reflect EXCELLENCE in everything that we do.
This is known as the “BP Way!” At BP, excellence is not an act, it’s a habit.
Parental engagement
PTO
Literacy Nights
Volunteer Opportunities
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Lunch with your lion
school Wide Festivals and Dances
Family Movie night
Math and Science Night
Scholastic book fair
Extracurricular Activities
National Junior Honor Society
Student Council
Art Club
Crazy 8’s Math Club
Dance Club w/the Dallas Black Dance Theater
Boys/Girls Soccer
Boys/Girls Basketball
Boys/Girls Baseball
Cheerleading-Fall 2023
VOLUNTEER!
Are you a parent, community or local business leader?
Volunteering opportunities include events such as field trips, reading days, school festivals, book fairs and many more fun and engaging activities.
Visit: cityscapeschools.voly.org to learn how you can impact a student’s life.
Partners & Supporters
Buckner Preparatory is supported by a number of community partners who provide valuable resources that enrich and assist scholars, teachers and staff
Buckner Preparatory partnered up with Pleasant Oaks Recreation Center, part of the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department, to offer an opportunity for our students to engage in sports, such as soccer and basketball.
The Dallas Park and Recreation Department offers these youth sports scholarships to ensure that the students can participate ...
TIA Newsletter
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Ms. Margarita Esquivel, hails from Zacatecas, Mexico and came to the USA when she was 11 years old. She has been with Cityscape Schools since 2015, working first as a TA, then an IA, and after completing her bachelor’s degree and passing her required state certification exams, has been teaching ...
Meet Ms. Naima Howard TIA Exemplary Designee for the 2021-2022 School Year!
In February 2023, Ms. Naima Howard was designated as Exemplary status in TEA’s Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) program. Ms. Howard joined our district (via Buckner Preparatory) in 2020. She currently teaches 5th and 6th grade mathematics/science and has been teaching ...
As part of a tradition that grows every year, students at Buckner Preparatory shared holiday carols during the 4th Annual PreK Holiday Sing Along.
Students and staff wore cheerful holiday props and bells during the program. Performances, included songs in English and Spanish, such as Navidad “Ozuna”, Muñeco de Nieve, Santa Claus Llegó a la Ciudad, ...
As part of Cityscape School’s mission to work in partnership with families, a collaboration between the AVANCE North Texas Program and Cityscape was recently created.
The collaboration provides parents with classes, tools, and opportunities about early childhood education and will support them with parenting skills and child development.
Parents ...
Cityscape Schools is excited to recognize for the first time students who completed five or more consecutive years of dual language instruction in elementary school.
This student achievement is part of Cityscape’s commitment to growing global leaders, empowering them with the skill of learning two languages and being bilingual, biliterate, ...
Cityscape Schools is committed to growing staff, in order to provide a quality education to all students. For that reason, in 2022, district leadership created its own program to assist participants in obtaining their teacher certification, titled “Cityscape Empowering Rising Teachers (CERT).
The CERT program was also a result of Cityscape facing ...
Four EGP students get accepted into Townview Center.
This year was not only the first year with most applicants from East Grand Preparatory at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, but it was also the first year with the most students accepted!
Carlos Frias, Daisy Lopez, Johanna Rosas, and Diego Ramirez are the four EGP students who will ...
Buckner Preparatory partnered up with Pleasant Oaks Recreation Center, part of the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department, to offer an opportunity for our students to engage in sports, such as soccer and basketball.
The Dallas Park and Recreation Department offers these youth sports scholarships to ensure that the students can participate ...
During the district’s TIA steering committee meetings, input was gathered on the development of the TIA spending plan. The steering committee is comprised of the superintendent, district chief officers, principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and teachers, who all played an important role in decision-making processes.
While each ...
Students in the National Junior Honor Society - Leonard Brannon and Glenda Brannon Chapter - bring a new light to Cityscape’s East Grand Preparatory.
At East Grand Preparatory, it is an honor to be selected to join the society. Eligible candidates must be in seventh or eighth grade, or the second semester of sixth grade, and must ...
For the 2023-2024 academic school year, Cityscape’s Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) plan now covers all Reading, Math, Science, and Pre-K teachers, grades Pre-K through 8. Both certified and uncertified teachers are eligible to qualify for a TIA designation.
Cityscape’s district plan is comprised of:
Student Growth – 50 percent
Teacher ...
Attendance Awareness
Cityscape Schools acknowledges the importance of showing up every day! September is known as Attendance Awareness Month and we are dedicated to helping our families understand how being in class every day impacts their children’s learning.
Recent surveys have shown that some of the reasons that students are absent ...
Cityscape Schools and Head Start of Greater Dallas are partnering to provide high-quality child-development services to families of 3 and 4-year old students, enrolled at Cityscape’s Early Childhood Center.
Cityscape is one of the few charter schools currently partnering with Head Start. As part of the collaboration, Head Start provides income eligible ...
