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Why Choose
Gravenstein Schools?Gravenstein Elementary and Hillcrest Middle School offer outstanding academic and creative arts programs for your children.
California Distinguished Schools!
Highest Test Scores in Sebastopol/
West Sonoma County Area
ENRICH! Creative Arts Magnet Program
Our acclaimed ENRICH! Creative Arts Magnet Program draws students from many neighboring districts and cities. Find out why!Our Award-Winning Music Program Expands!
One of the broadest music programs in the West County keeps getting better!Exceptional Physical Education Program
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Come meet "the best physical education teacher in the North Bay" according to the San Francisco Chronicle.Spanish & Art Classes at Gravenstein and
Hillcrest Schools
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Academic Pre-Kindergarten Program Integrated with our Kindergarten and On-site Before / After School Care
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Rigorous Standards-Based Education
for All Students
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We Welcome Interdistrict Transfers!
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Why Choose
Gravenstein Schools?
California Distinguished Schools!
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The California Distinguished School Award program identifies and honors some of the state's most exemplary and inspiring public schools.
Hillcrest has received a Distinguished School Award three times in the last decade -- unprecedented in Sonoma County! Hillcrest was the only Sonoma County middle school chosen to receive this prestigious award for 2005.
Our Gravenstein elementary program has been recognized twice as a Distinguished School and received an Honorable Mention in 2006. You can read more about the California Distinguished Schools Award program here:
Kindergarten & Pre-Kindergarten Openings!
Pick up forms at Gravenstein School
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Gravenstein School boasts a great kindergarten program that is fully integrated with our on-site Preschool and our first grade curriculum. All of our kindergarten classes have 21 students or less. We offer extended day kindergarten, on-site daycare
(7 AM - 6 PM), and a wide range of academic, music, art and sport activities for our students.
Please call our school office at 823-5361 for more information.
Gravenstein Excels in Test Scores! (back)
In the latest state Academic Performance Index, the Gravenstein district received the highest overall test scores of all West Sonoma County / Sebastopol districts -- for the NINTH time in the last 10 years.
The Academic Performance Index (API) measures student achievement and success in meeting the state's rigorous academic standards. The API is one measure of Gravenstein's successful educational program.
You can read more about California's API here.
Spanish & Art Classes at
Gravenstein and Hillcrest Schools
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We provide regular Spanish and Art instruction for all Hillcrest students
At Gravenstein, we offer the acclaimed "Artist in the Classroom" program to all students.
We also offer Spanish language instruction for students at Gravenstein Elementary School. Contact the school office at 823-5361 to learn more about fees and grade schedules for this extracurricular program. ENRICH! students at Gravenstein Elementary receive Spanish instruction as part of their regular curriculum.
These popular enrichment classes are funded through generous support from the Gravenstein Schools Foundation (GSF) and the Gravenstein Schools Magnet Program Foundation (MPF), our partners in providing a first-class education for Gravenstein district students! Thank you, GSF and MPF!
Exceptional Physical Education Program
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Our wonderful PE teacher, Simon Lewis, was named as the
best physical education teacher in the North Bay by the San Francisco Chronicle.
"It's not just that he gets the kids playing rugby and cricket, or that the Hillcrest student body is rated 96 percent fit (compared with about 50 percent when he came on board) -- Lewis cares, and the kids know it."
Read the full article on Mr. Lewis here.
Rigorous Standards-Based Education
for All Students
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While excelling in creative arts, music and physical education, we haven't lost sight of the basics. Gravenstein and Hillcrest offer rigorous standards-based curriculum for all students. Read more about California's state education standards here.
We Welcome Interdistrict Transfers!
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