
Como Park Elementary
Welcome Back
Administration Team
Welcome Back!
We are so excited for the 23/24 school year. We look forward to partnering with you so that we can provide your child with an incredible education. We will have monthly family meetings and we will send out information regarding the day/time/topic each month.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Jennifer Ewald, Principal, 651-744-6055
Meera Patel, Assistant Principal, 651-744-7883
PreK
Pre-K Teachers: Jill Maxe and Lori Sherry
Welcome to the Pre-K 2023-2024 school year! We are looking forward to working with you and your child in partnership. Our focus in Pre-K is learning through play. We will build instruction on children’s curiosities and wonderings. We are excited for a great year ahead!
Kindergarten
The kindergarten team, Ms. Melissa, Ms. Olson, and Ms. Angela, would like to welcome you to the 2023-2024 school year! We look forward to helping the students learn the ritual and routines, make new friends, build a classroom community, and make academic progress.
First Grade Team
Como's first-grade team consists of Dayna Thomas, Melissa Anglum, Gao Vang, and Lindsey King (MLL). Together we have 82 years of teaching experience. We look forward to a fabulous year, full of learning and fun. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact your child's teacher.
Second Grade
Greetings from the 2nd grade team. We are excited for the new school year. At the beginning of the year, we will be focusing on building our classroom community and getting to know each other. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Third Grade
Hello! We are the third-grade team. Ms. Holly Mischel-Moe, Ms. Halvorson, and Mrs. Jennrich. We are so excited to start this school year with your students. So far we are off to a great start!
4th Grade Team
This is the 4th grade team, consisting of classroom teachers Mr. W and Mr. Binns and MLL teacher Teacher Ravi are excited to build a strong learning community this school year!
5th Grade
Mr. Prescott and Ms. Halvorson have each been teaching for over 25 years in St. Paul Schools. We have high expectations for students and help them prepare for their transition to middle school experience. We love teaching the core subjects and enjoy helping students experience other aspects of learning through field trips. We look forward to working with our students this year.
WINN and Intervention
Meet your Intervention/WINN team! Ms. Rennerfeldt (or Ms. Renny) is the WINN (What I Need Now) teacher. She will work with k-2 classroom teachers to provide small-group reading instruction. Ms. VanKampen will work with students in grades 3-5 who demonstrate a need for additional practice with reading or math skills. She is Como Elementary's SIPPS teacher.
Student Support
We are happy to serve students and families at Como this year. If you need community resources or social work/counseling support for your family or your child, please reach out. Let us know if you are having trouble getting your child to school. We are also here to offer support for the social/emotional needs of Como children. When school staff and families work together, children are able to get more of what they need. Our job is to listen and help in whatever way we can. Together, we can do more! Please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We are here for you!
Special Education Classroom Teachers
We are part of the special education team. We collaborate with other educators in the building to meet our students' needs. We are excited to be part of the Como Park Elementary School Community! We look forward to our partnerships with families this school year! Ms. Overvig, Miss Sandi, Miss PaYia, Ms. Cox
Como Speech and Language Pathologists
Early Childhood Special Education
Mr. Tyler, Ms. Kathryn and Ms. Natalie are looking forward to welcoming Early Childhood Special Education students and their families to Como Park Elementary School. It is going to be a great year!
Specialists
At Como Elementary, students get exposure to many different subject areas. These areas include Music, Technology, Art, Science, and Phy Ed. These subjects are taught by our specialist teachers who help students achieve a well-rounded understanding of the arts and sciences and include many opportunities to learn in small groups, large groups, and performance in ensembles.
Nurse
Special Education Teachers
Ms. Lori Seath and Ms. Kia Xiong are special education teachers at Como. Ms. Kia works with students in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. Ms. Seath works with students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade
Quick Links
ENGLISH
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KAREN
ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-293-8820 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
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Como Park Elementary School
Website: https://www.spps.org/comoel
Location: 780 West Wheelock Parkway, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone: 651-293-8820
Twitter: @ComoElementary
Translations of required school-related communications can be made available upon request. Our school can also provide translators. Please contact the office or your student’s teacher if you are in need of these services.