Size in California:
27th largest
Size in San Diego County:
3rd largest
Geographic size of District:
100 sq. miles
Communities Served:
Poway, Rancho Peñasquitos, Rancho Bernardo,
Sabre Springs,
Carmel Mountain Ranch, Torrey Highlands, Black Mountain Ranch, 4S Ranch,
Santa Fe Valley
Number of Schools: 32
22 elementary schools
5 middle schools
4 comprehensive high schools
1 continuation high school
Location of Schools:
11 schools in city of Poway
21 schools in city of San Diego
Number of Students:
32,532 (K-12)
Total Elementary
(K-5)....14,289
Total Middle
(6-8)....7,863
Total High School
(9-12)......10,380
Adult Education: 10,352
students
(CBEDS 2002-03)
Ethnic Diversity:
American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.5%
African American 3.0%
Asian
10.3%
Filipino
6.9%
Hispanic
8.8%
Pacific Islander
0.5%
White
67.8%
Multiple/No Response 2.3%
Number of Employees:
3,296
Budget:
$206 million
Lottery:
2% of total budget
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CHARACTER
COUNTS!
Focuses on Pillars of Character
Trustworthiness, Respect,
Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship
Character Counts is a districtwide program that is making a difference. The
program has set the foundation for school management, said Damen Lopez, Los
Penasquitos Elementary School Principal. Forty office referrals for
disciplinary reasons in September, 2003 have been reduced to 7 in September
2004.
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Dear Parents, Staff, and Community
Leaders,
Together we are building an educational program that will challenge all
students to do their very best. We appreciate and value the importance of
helping every child succeed. We recognize that when we all work together in an
active partnership between the home and school and in a cooperative relationship
with city offices, businesses, nonprofit groups, local citizens, and higher
education institutions, the youth of our community receives the greatest
benefits.
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Poway Unified School District
is honored to have two district
teachers selected as San Diego County Teacher of the Year Finalists.
Thirty-eight Teacher Nominees represented the 26,000 teachers
and 27 school districts in the County of San Diego. Two Poway Unified teachers
were selected as two of the ten finalists. They are Barbara Charlebois
and Tanya MacMartin.
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Superintendent's
Guest Editorial:
Your Prop. U dollars at work
This editorial appeared in the
Poway Chieftain, Corridor News, Rancho Bernardo Journal
September 21, 2004
By Donald A. Phillips, Ed.D., Superintendent, PUSD
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Midland Elementary School Architectural
Rendering
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Many of you are
seeing school construction at sites throughout the district. Thanks to
the passage of the $198 million Building for Success, Proposition U school bond
passed by PUSD voters in November 2002, 24 older schools will be renovated and
expanded during the next seven years.
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The Poway Unified School District
utilizes grants to fund programs that assist in meeting the district’s
goals and targets. Accessing grants is a challenging process because the
district is considered suburban and middle class. Careful analysis of individual
student needs plus visionary ideas for programs that assist students resulted in
the grants below.
Information about
PUSD Grants
Listings of Grants Available |
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Parents, every child's first and most important teachers, are
critical to Kindergarten readiness. PUSD's
Preschool/Extended Student Services developed an informal list of desirable
readiness skills that will help children when they begin school. The list is a
guide to help reassure parents that their intuitions and experiences with their
own children give them valuable insight about readiness for kindergarten. For
more information, call 858-748-0010 ext. 2075.
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In our efforts to communicate quickly with our community, we are asking
others to subscribe to this e-bulletin. For parents, any change in e-mail
addresses or additions need to be made at the school where your child(ren)
attend. Other community members please contact sraffer@powayusd.com if you wish to
subscribe.
If you received this bulletin, you are already subscribed. In case of emergency,
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The federal government has begun implementing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) by
holding states accountable for developing plans and reporting progress toward
meeting the requirements of NCLB.
The overall goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to have all students
– 100 percent – achieving at grade level by 2014.
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