School: Huckleberry Hill Elementary School
School Contact Person: : Mary Robertson
Email Address of Contact Person: robertsonm@lynnfield.k12.ma.us
School Mailing Address: : 5 Knoll Road
City: : Lynnfield
State: : Massachusetts
Zip Code: 01940
Country: USA

Approximate Number of Students Participating: 80
Ages and Grades of students competing: ages: : 8-10 Grade: 3

Description of your school:
Huckleberry Elementary School is a public school for grades kindergarten through fourth grade. There are two public elementary schools in our town and a small parochial school. Class sizes range from 18-24 students.

Our elementary students have a variety of subjects including math, social studies, language arts, science, physical education, art, media center and music. We have a computer lab for classroom use but it is not taught as a separate subject.

Our physical education classes are held in either our indoor gym or outside on a field. For our Teleolympics, we ride a bus down to the center of town and participate on the track located behind our middle school.

Description of your community:
Because of Lynnfield's location, a mere 15 miles north of Boston, we are home to many professional athletes including the following:
Dwight "Dewey" Evans - Boston Red Sox Outfielder 1972- 1990.
Ken Hodge - Boston Bruins Right Winger 1967- 1976.
Sib Hashian - Drummer, formerly of the band Boston
Nancy Kerrigan - Ice Skater, present
Pedro Martínez - Former Boston Red Sox pitcher
Andy Moog - Boston Bruin Goalie
Dave Reid - Boston Bruin
Mike Milbury - Former Boston Bruin Coach
Chris Ford - Former Boston Celtic Coach
Brad Park - Former New York Ranger
Hank Finkel - Former Boston Celtic Center
Rico Petricelli - Former Boston Red Sox player
Garnet Bailey - Former Boston Bruin player

Lynnfield is a small suburb which is primarily residential. Our total area is only 10.5 square miles and it has a small pond in its center that takes up 0.3 sq miles. We have approximately11,542 people making up our 3348 families in town.The family median income is $92,000. To learn more about our town of Lynnfield, go to www.town.lynnfield.ma.us

Description of sports done in your school:
We do NOT have competitive sports teams at our school because we are an elementary school. However, between our physical education program and our after schoo programs we have flag football, floor hockey, basketball, capture the flag, snowshoeing and pilo polo.

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