Recreation & culture

Programs Field Trips

UCS provides numerous of field trips and outside-the-classroom learning experiences during the school day. Some recent cultural and educational destinations UCS students have visited include:

Urban Community School strives to provide off-site activities that enhance classroom studies and offer experiences to which students generally do not have access. The City of Cleveland and surrounding communities have vast academic and cultural resources, and field trips to these locales provide creative and innovative opportunities for students to learn and excel as individuals and classmates.

The majority of our students' families do not have the means or opportunity to take advantage of Cleveland's educational, recreational and cultural offerings. To provide our children with the chance to see a theatre production, to tour a museum or to study nature is a valuable asset to their curriculum and childhood. With field trips, UCS students are challenged in their learning and rewarded simultaneously.

Through the generosity of The Cleveland Automobile Club Orphans Outing Fund and other thoughtful donors, students have experienced, or plan to participate in, the following opportunities:

• The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Carnegie West Library
• The Children's Museum
• Cleveland Lakefront Park
• Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
• Franklin Plaza Nursing Home
• Gymnastics World
• Hale Farm and Village
• The Hanna Theater
• Lake Erie Nature Center
• Lake Farmpark
• Lakeview Cemetery
• Mapleside Farm
• Monroe Street Cemetery
• The Natural History Museum
• The Ohio Theater
• Progressive Field
• Preston's Hope Playground
• Rocky River Nature Center
• Great Lakes Science Center
• Temple Shari Tikya
• West Side Market and neighborhood tour
• Western Reserve Historical Society
• Cleveland Metroparks Zoo