About Us

After fifty years of history, Harman has been torn down, rebuilt and renamed.

Frank Hebron first attended what would become Harman Elementary School in 1933, when it was a segregated three-room schoolhouse in Hanover, on the site where St. Mark's United Methodist Church now stands. It was known as a Rosenwald school, named for the Sears, Roebuck and Co. chief executive Julius Rosenwald.

Hebron became the first principal of the new Harman Elementary School in 1955, serving in that capacity until 1962. Although Harman was built the year after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that called for the desegregation of public schools, the school remained segregated until the 1960s.

Now, 50 years after it was built, Harman Elementary School, which was renovated only once, in 1969, has been destroyed. The name change was unanimously approved by the Board of Education in April 2005. The new school opened in April 2007, and has be named the Frank Hebron-Harman Elementary School.

See the Dedication and unveiling of Frank Hebron mural in February, 2008

What We Offer:

We will create an environment that will respect and celebrate diversity within our school community.

We will model and provide students with the tools necessary to extend learning beyond the classroom.

We will actively engage parents in the support of school-wide activities and involve them in the social and academic education of their children.

We will align all instruction with state standards and assessments.

We will model an enthusiasm for learning in order to motivate students to become lifelong learners.

We will consistently model appropriate social interactions with students and adults.

We will plan collaboratively to provide an engaging learning environment, encompassing a variety of learning styles.