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San Diego City Schools, also known as the San Diego Unified School District, is the school district of San Diego, California. It was founded in 1854. As of 2005 it represents over 200 institutions and has over 15,800 employees. School districts are a form of special-purpose district in the United States (amongst some other places) which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. ... Nickname: Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: , Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850 Government - Mayor Jerry Sanders - City Attorney Michael Aguirre - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The district includes 113 elementary schools, 23 middle schools, 4 atypical schools, 10 alternative schools, 27 high schools and 25 charter schools. Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... High school, or secondary school, is the last segment of compulsory education in Hong Kong, United States, Australia, Canada, China, Korea and Japan. ... Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school...

1 Schools
- 1.1 Senior High schools
- 1.2 Middle/Junior High Schools
2 Elementary Schools
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Schools

Senior High schools

Clairemont High School is a high school located in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, California belonging to the San Diego Unified School District. ... Patrick Henry High School can be: Patrick Henry High School (San Diego, California) Patrick Henry High School (Ashland, Virginia) Patrick Henry High School (Glade Spring, Virginia) Patrick Henry High School (Roanoke, Virginia) Patrick Henry High School (North Minneapolis, Minnesota) Patrick Henry High School (Hamler, Ohio) Patrick Henry High School (Stockbridge... Herbert Hoover High School is a public high school in Glendale, California. ... Kearny High School is located at 7651 Wellington Way in San Diego, California. ... La Jolla High School Caption La Jolla High School (LJHS) is a comprehensive high school for Grades 9â€“12 located in La Jolla, a community within the city limits of San Diego. ... Abraham Lincoln High School may refer to: Abraham Lincoln High School (Des Moines) in Des Moines, Iowa Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, California Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco) in San Francisco, California Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose) in San Jose, California Abraham Lincoln High... Madison is a name for several high schools in North America, including: Madison High School, Rexburg, Idaho Madison High School, Madison, Kansas Madison High School, Adrian, Michigan Madison High School, Madison Heights, Michigan Madison High School, Madison, New Jersey Madison High School, Brooklyn, New York Madison High School, Madison, Ohio... Mira Mesa Senior High School is a public high school in San Diego, California. ... Mission Bay High School is a public school located in the Pacific Beach suburb of San Diego, California. ... JunÃpero Serra High School is situated in the community of Tierrasanta within the city of San Diego, California and nearly adjacent to Murphy Canyon, a large military housing complex. ... University City High School, located in the University City section of San Diego, California, United States, is a comprehensive, four-year public high school, part of the San Diego Unified School District. ... Scripps Ranch High School, located in Northeast San Diego, serves the Scripps Ranch community as well as students participating in the VEEP program of the San Diego Unified School District. ...

Middle/Junior High Schools

Bell Junior High School
Challenger Middle School
Clark Middle School
Correia Middle School
Dana Middle School
DePortola Middle School
Keillor Middle School
Kroc Middle School
Lewis Middle School
Mann Middle School
Marshall Middle School
Marston Middle School
Montgomery Middle School
Muirlands Middle School
Pacific Beach Middle School
Pershing Middle School
Roosevelt Middle School
Standley Middle School
Taft Middle School
Wangenheim Middle School
Wilson Middle School

Clark Middle School is a middle school located in the north portion of Laredo, Texas and is a part of United Independent School District. ... Marshall Middle School, founded in 1998, is a middle school in the San Diego City Schools school district that is named after Thurgood Marshall and is in San Diego, California. ... Pershing Middle School, founded in 1964, is a middle school in the San Diego City Schools school district that is named after John J. Pershing and is in San Diego, California. ... Standley Middle School is located in University City, a community of San Diego, California. ...

Elementary Schools

Balboa Elementary School, recognized as one of six nationwide winners of the 2007 Intel Schools of Distinction awards, for excellence in science education in an elementary school program.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Balboa Elementary School is an elementary school serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade in the San Diego, California, United States, as part of the San Diego City Schools. ... The IntelÂ® Schools of Distinction Awards is a national education awards program sponsored by the Intel Corporation that recognizes K-12 schools in the United States that have demonstrated excellence in implementing innovative, replicable programs supporting positive educational outcomes in the areas of math and science achievement based on the...

References

^ Tintocalis, Ana. "Balboa Elementary Wins $170,000 for Nation's Best Math Programs", KPBS, May 30, 2007. Accessed June 17, 2007. "A San Diego school gets national attention for having a one of the country's top math programs. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has more."
^ "Balboa Named Nation’s Top Math Elementary: Intel’s award goes to Shelltown neighborhood school", San Diego City Schools press release dated June 1, 2007. Accessed June 17, 2007. " Balboa Elementary has been named top elementary school math program in Intel Corporation’s annual Schools of Distinction Award. "
^ Fabiano, Giovanna. "Bergen Academies wins national math award", The Record (Bergen County), June 16, 2007. Accessed June 16, 2007.

KPBS is a public broadcasting organization based in San Diego, California. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Heroes stamp using the Thomas E. Franklin photo The Record (also called The Bergen Record, although this has never been the newspapers name) is the second largest daily newspaper in the US state of New Jersey. ... is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

External links

Categories: School districts in California | Education in San Diego | Education in San Diego County, California

Results from FactBites:

Journal of San Diego History (6137 words)
	A milestone for education in San Diego was the land boom of the mid-1880s.
	The city's resources, including the schools, were stretched well beyond their normal capacities, and this may well have been reflected in many of the city's youth not enrolling in school because of a lack of desks in the classrooms.
	As in the cities along the eastern seaboard, when San Diego changed from a frontier town to a young city, the male teachers in Old Town and the Government Barracks were at first augmented by and then replaced by young women eager to enter the work force.

San Diego city schools \| The San Diego Union-Tribune (669 words)
	San Diego's course should be guided by whether or not the reforms worked – and evidence from a new study published by the Public Policy Institute of California indicates that with a couple of notable exceptions, they did.
	At the middle school level, racial gaps in reading achievement also declined as a direct result of the blueprint, but by a lesser extent, about 2 percent for the Hispanic-white gap and 3 percent for the fl-white gap.
	Betts is professor of economics at the University of California San Diego and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.

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