Grimes Elementary School
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Grimes Elementary School is located at 58 South 8th Street in Mount Vernon, New York. It is one of eleven elementary schools serving the City of Mount Vernon in northern Westchester County. Close to 1,000 neighborhood children, in grades K through 7, attend classes in the new state-of-the-art 56,000 square foot building.
Opened in 1995, the building features new computers in every classroom, a Read 180 Lab, a fully equipped auditorium, an outdoor playground and basketball court, an indoor swimming pool and a Library Media Center that is run by the wonderful Mrs. Joyce and Ms. Johnson.
Grimes is a Performing Arts Magnet School that engages students in African Dance and Drumming, Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Irish Step Dancing and Band and String Instrument Instruction.
