Get to know Buckner Preparatory
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 - 7th 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
Meet the Teacher
Family Volunteer Day
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Literacy Nights
Father / Daughter Sweetheart Dance
Family Movie night
Math and Science Night
Fall Carnival
PreK Family Literacy Night
Extracurricular Activities
National Elementary Honor Society
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
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, ...
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 ...
Our middle school students created memorable experiences and developed new skills through The Congressional Award summit as part of Cityscapes Foresight Summer Camp!
Cityscape is proud to bring this first-of-its kind leadership program to our middle school students. This program traditionally engages students starting high school but thanks ...
We celebrated the end of a journey at Cityscape for our East Grand Preparatory 8th grade students last Thursday night as they graduated from middle school. The ceremony, which was the beginning of a new path for these students, brought tears to our students, staff and those who were present.
With much excitement we celebrated the graduation ...
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Ms. Sol Acuña, has taught Pre-kindergarten classes for the district since for the past four years. Since last school year (2021-2022) was the first year of TIA eligibility for Cityscape Pre-kindergarten teachers, Ms. Acuña earned T-TESS scores and student growth percentages high enough to earn a pending TIA designation!
When ...
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 ...
Mr. Carlos Cupido Pending TIA Designee for the 2021-2022 School Year!
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Mr. Carlos Cupido has been teaching at East Grand Preparatory since 2015. He currently teaches 8th grade mathematics. Before coming to Cityscape, Mr. Cupido taught for Dallas ISD for seven years and before that, taught university courses ...
National Leadership Day was created over 50 years ago and started as National Student Government Day. It wasn’t until 1979 that it was renamed “Student Leadership Day.”
In 1983 that the celebration was extended to a week, creating National Student Leadership Week to ensure all clubs and activities were included, such as student government ...
In February 2023, Mr. Angel Rodriguez was designated as Recognized status in TEA’s Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) program. Born and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Mr. Rodriguez was interviewed by Cityscape staff while living in Puerto Rico and came to Dallas for the sole purpose of teaching students at Cityscape Schools. He currently teaches ...