- Labor Day
Welcome to the Burlingame School District’s Website. We serve approximately 2,400 pre-kindergarten through eighth grade children in this beautiful city on the San Francisco Peninsula, just south of San Francisco Airport. Burlingame is a city with a well-developed sense of community identity where all are considered partners with the schools. Our outstanding educational system is highly valued and parents participate and take a great deal of interest in the schools. Beyond the outstanding regular instructional program, Burlingame schools are also known for their strong and well-supported music and physical education programs. Excellence is our goal and our schools rank at the highest level in the California State Testing measures. We hope this website provides you with good information about our neighborhood schools and the services we offer. Please feel free to contact us with specific questions that may not be addressed here, or with suggestions for additional information we might include.The Board took action at the February 9th board meeting regarding registration for the 2010-2011 school year. The Board has created an enrollment window of February 1 – March 31. The students enrolled during that window will be accommodated at their neighborhood school. Students enrolled after March 31 may attend their neighborhood school if space allows or will be assigned to attend the District’s overflow school for 2010-2011. Students hosted at the overflow school will be allowed to return to their neighborhood school the following year if and when space becomes available.
On January 20th, the Rotary Club of Burlingame began its annual distribution of a hard cover dictionary to every third grade student in the city.
Among the many community service activities of the Rotary Club of Burlingame is supporting education in Burlingame. In addition to presenting dictionaries to third graders, the Rotary Club sponsors a mentorship/scholarship for intermediate school students, a college scholarship for high school seniors at Burlingame High School and Mercy High School, and a scholarship program for students who attend the county junior colleges.
 Highlights
Overview The Burlingame School District is recognized as one of the most desirable public school systems in the Bay Area. Five neighborhood schools serve grades K-5 and these students come together in one middle school for grades 6-8. Our highly qualified teachers ensure that all students meet or exceed the state’s adopted standards in English/language arts, mathematics, history/social science, and science. Individual students’ needs are met through the use of a variety of instructional strategies. The acquisition of skills, the application of knowledge to real life, and the ability to think critically are valued and provide the basis of a balanced curriculum and instruction for our students. Additionally, each school is vigorously supported by parents and community members through active PTAs and the Burlingame Community for Education Foundation (http://www.bcefoundation.org). In this environment, children are challenged and stimulated to excel academically, socially and physically. Language Arts and Social Science
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Science
Library, Research, and Technology Resources
Physical Education
Visual and Performing Arts
Foreign Language
Supplemental Learning Programs
Teachers and Staff There are many factors that distinguish the BSD experience – small classes, individual attention, and opportunities in science, arts and athletics – but central to these factors are outstanding instructors who are passionate about teaching. Their dedication to their students inspires the students to set high aspirations. All first and second year teachers work with an Advisor for two years in a special program for new teachers called the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program (BTSA). Specialists Equally valued in what is taught and learned in Burlingame are services provided by our specialists in their fields. Through collaborative efforts of the district and the Burlingame Community for Education Foundation, our students’ learning is enhanced by our physical education specialists, our music specialists, our English learner specialists, our reading specialists, our library/media specialists, and our special education services: special day classes, resource specialist program, psychologists, and speech Assessment One only has to look at our test scores to see that our students are succeeding. However, we continue to analyze our assessment data to ensure that all of our students and subgroups are succeeding and c
ontinue to be challenged. We make instructional decisions using the state’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) data; district performance based assessments in early literacy, writing, and mathematics data; and daily classroom assessments based on students’ performance. With the advent of the Academic Performance Index (API) in 1999, the State began to formally and statistically compare school districts. Results from the STAR Program are used in calculating the API for elementary school districts such as Burlingame. The statewide API performance target for all schools is 800. A school’s growth is measured by how well it is moving toward or beyond that goal. The schools in the Burlingame School District have scored in the 800s and beyond (out of 1000). See below for our district resu lts. LEA is the local educational agency – in this case Burlingame School District.
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