Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences

Bailey's Elementary is a public school located in Bailey's Crossroads, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The school was founded in 1952. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). The school is by far the most culturally, economically, linguistically diverse elementary school in FCPS and is a Title I School. Bailey's is the first magnet school in Fairfax County and offers Spanish immersion instruction in Math and Sciences. Bailey's ES Representative on the FCPS School Board is Sandra Evans.Bailey's Elementary is considered of particular note as it was specially selected in 1997 by President Clinton's One America Initiative Advisory Board on Race (consisting of John Hope Franklin, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Suzan D. Johnson Cook, Thomas Kean, Angela E. Oh, Robert J. Thomas, and William Winter) as a model for educational excellence in diverse communities, as a commissioned case study, "Bailey's Elementary: Educational Strategies for Making Diversity an Asset that identified the school as "An educational, social and cultural haven for students from all backgrounds".And President Clinton’s One America Initiative on Race Report "AMERICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: FORGING A NEW FUTURE Report" quotes Linda Chavez-Thompson, who was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Board on Race when she visited Bailey's Elementary in December 1997