Add an Article Add an Event Edit

San Rafael City Schools

310 Nova Albion Way
415-492-3200


Mission Statement

The mission of the San Rafael City Schools, a multicultural community with a commitment to build a school system of unparalleled quality, is to guarantee to students and parents that all students will acquire knowledge and skills essential for life-long learning, responsible citizenship, and fulfillment of their greatest potential through a challenging personalized education in collaboration with parents, staff and our diverse community.

District Goals

- Ensure a rich, holistic, high-quality education that inspires and supports all students to reach their full potential and prepares them to succeed in college, work, and a global society.

- Promote high academic achievement of students of all levels and abilities.

- Encourage the positive physical, social, emotional, and ethical development of all students.

- Recruit, retain and support highly-qualified, highly-effective teachers, staff and administrators.

- Provide safe, well-equipped and well-maintained school environments that support the academic and extracurricular activities of the schools and district,

- Allocate resources based on desired outcomes and locally determined accountability measures identified as essential for the success of the schools.

- Promote active parent involvement and community participation to support the goals of the schools and district.

- Create open, effective, proactive communication that is responsive, informative, values input of all stakeholders, promotes cross-grade and school transitions, and increases knowledge about the quality of the schools.

- Maintain a collaborative, shared leadership model that taps into the talents, knowledge and experience of stakeholders throughout the school district and the community to examine issues and create solutions.

- Strengthen and maintain a system of accountability and evaluation based on specific, shared outcomes.

- Provide organizational andoperational excellence, a responsive customer-friendly service orientation and efficient data management and information systems.