This is school is great and is fun for my daughter which is her 3rd year there and now my nephew attends there as a 1st grader. They really encourage on reading and keeping the parents posted and encourage for our support.
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Posted by a parent on 09/24/09
Junipero Serra Elementary is off to a great start. The teachers, principal, and extended staff were eager to start a new school year. My son loves being a student at J.S. and the teachers are absolutely wonderful. Mr. Schmella, the principal, is a great leader for the school and is always making himself
... Read more available to parents as well as to students. He can be seen every morning talking to parents and students before school. He always has a smile on his face. This is a great school! Read less
Posted by a parent on 08/29/09
Love this school, teachers and support staff are really good!
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Posted by a parent on 08/28/09
Junipero Serra Elementary School is going in the right direction after Mrs. Brown sudden departure. The only problem I have with the school is the after school recreation program. How can the children do homework with all of that noise. Children on cell phones, screaming, and children running all around
... Read more campus unsupervised. On the other hand the school run day care is excellent. The leaders are very knowledge about their jobs. Very well run program. Read less
Posted by a parent on 02/03/09
This school is great! My children's teachers are very pleasant, professional and they always keep me informed on how they are progressing. The afterschool childcare is wonderful! Although the afterschool recreation program is very unorganized, unsupervised and noisy, I hope the school will do something
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Posted by a parent on 01/13/09
Overall the school is doing well, hope the new principal makes some important changes. The afterschool recreation program is highly unorganized. Noise levels are over the top. The children are all over the campus unsupervised. The school day care program, which my child attends, is outstanding.
... Read more The teachers are very professional and courteous. I am always informed about how my child is doing. They take the time to talk to every parent. Outstanding job. Read less
Posted by a other on 08/30/08
School is very un-organize, from staffs to Principal Brown. Particularly to Principal Brown's leadership, she doesn't socialize professionaly with parents and parents involvement are very, very poor. Part-time staffs and Recreation staffs are very unprofessional. Safetty and Dicipline are also very poor.
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Posted by a parent on 08/26/08
My grandson has been at Junipero Serra for two years and I am very happy and pleased with the education he is receiving. Academically he is doing well and his reading has improved since attending the school. Junipero Serra offers before school programs that assist in learning for children. My grandson
... Read more was involved for two years in the 'Wake Up to Math' Program. This math program gets the students excited about math and more involved. It offers prizes to encourage the children. My grandson also participated in the Holiday Production and learned about the whole process of putting a play together. Ms. Gavin the Principal is caring and understanding but runs an organized and well disciplined program. There is great community support with the fire, police, library and neighborhood businesses all joining in to support the school. My favorite days are 'Giving Day,' 'To Grandmother's House We Go,' and Math Day. Read less
Posted by a parent on 01/03/06
Juniperro Serra is a great school! Ms.Gavin, the principal and the teachers are all wonderful. The teachers are very supportive of their students. The school encourages their students to do well academically and to be a better person as a whole. This is to commend the parents involved in PTA, they are
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Posted by a parent on 03/31/05
Junipero Serra is an excellent public school. The principal, Mrs. Gavin is very passionate about her work, and it shows in the results. The teachers that my daughter had were all very wonderful. They employ a good mixture of traditional and alternative teaching methods which result in very motivated,
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School Profile for Junipero Serra Elementary School
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Student enrollment:
401
Students per teacher:
17
Full-time teachers:
23
Number of classrooms:
19
Special Education
Speech/Language Pathologists
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Gifted and Talented
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general intellectual ability or talent - high intelligence test score (usually two standard deviations above the mean), and high levels of vocabulary, memory, abstract work knowledge and abstract reasoning;
specific academic aptitude or talent in one area such as mathematics or language arts;
creative and productive thinking, the ability to produce new ideas;
leadership ability, the ability to direct individuals or groups to a common decision or action;
visual and performing arts, special talents in visual art, music, dance, drama, or other related studies;
psychomotor ability, such as practical, spatial, mechanical, and physical skills.
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Special Education Classes
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Adult Education Classes
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English as Second Language
English language classes for students whose first language is not English.
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Daly City schools — Junipero Serra Elementary School is located at 151 Victoria St, Daly City CA 94015. 151 Victoria St is in the Serramonte neighborhood and 94015 ZIP code in Daly City, CA The school district for Junipero Serra Elementary School is the South San Francisco Unified Sd. Junipero Serra Elementary School is a Public school that serves grade levels K - 5.
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