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Awards |
California Distinguished School (2006) |
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School Mission
- Arroyo Vista is a community of learners where ALL children are given skills to make them successful citizens of the 21st century.
A T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More)approach to learning, which includes staff, students, parents, and the community, establishes a foundation of collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality to set high expectations and to promote student success.
Curriculum and instruction is driven by the California State Standards with a school-wide goal that each child will achieve mastery of his/her grade level standards.
| Curriculum |
- Dual immersion programs in Spanish.
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Instructional Program Highlights
- In every classroom, instruction reflects best practices and is designed to meet the varied learning styles of all students.
- A celebration of diversity is emphasized through literature, music, art and technology.
- Through a differentiated curriculum ALL children are challenged to use higher-level thinking skills as they develop skills to make good choices.
- Reflection, inquiry, dialogue and action are the basis for consensus building and the premise for ongoing staff development.
| Activities and Sports |
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: Fishing Club; Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots; Safety Patrol; Odyssey of the Mind; Book Club and Battle of the Books.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: art and music.
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Parent and Community Support
- Generation Junction program: Seniors are working as tutors to the children, enhancing by the wisdom, knowledge and life skills that the more mature generation has to offer and the lives of our older adults are made brighter.
PTA: The PTA is an active positive force on campus
Classroom volunteers and tutors
| Technology and Facilities |
- This school has 5 students per computer. Numbers used to calculate this ratio were provided by the principal. This ratio may differ from the ratio given elsewhere on this profile where the numbers were provied by the state.
- 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- This school was established in 2000.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Almost all of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
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| Safety, Discipline and Support |
- Safety and discipline-related resources include: Peer mediation or conflict resolution program;
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- This school has an emphasis in: standards based, best-practices.
- Regular classroom hours: 8:40 am to 3:15 pm.
- Principal has been at this school for 9 years.
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| Source of Data |
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 06/22/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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