Eugene Field Elementary School reflect, the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural community of East Rogers Park. Illustrative of this diversity are the fourteen languages represented among our student population. Over 640 children, from fourth to eighth grades are being educated in our main building and five mobile units. Our former pre-school through third grade students are now housed in a new building approximately three blocks away. The fourth and fifth grades follow the self-contained classroom model. The program for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students is a departmentalized model which better prepares adolescents for their high school experience. Children with special needs are served in appropriate ways in self-contained special education classes, by resource, and in general education classrooms. Additionally, special needs students are also served by inclusion teachers in general education classrooms. To further support student needs, Field’s social workers, psy chologist, and Group Homes liaison coordinate services within and outside the school for students and their families.