O.W. Erlewine ES - SCUSD

Organization Description

Sacramento City Unified School District is one of the oldest K-12 districts in the western United States (established in 1854). SCUSD serves 43,175 students on 75 campuses spanning 76 square miles.

SCUSD is home to a 2013 California Distinguished School (West Campus High School), the only public Waldorf-inspired high school in the nation (George Washington Carver) and the only Hmong language immersion program in the state (Susan B. Anthony Elementary School).

Alumni from SCUSD’s schools include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, nationally renowned political scholar Dr. Cornel West and author Joan Didion. Recent graduates from SCUSD are currently attending Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and host of other prestigious universities.

Our Board-adopted mission statement promises the community that our students will “graduate as globally competitive life-long learners, prepared to succeed in a career and higher education institution of their choice to secure gainful employment and contribute to society.”

SCUSD’s students reflect the rich diversity that is the hallmark of Sacramento’s central city. Our student population is 37.1 percent Hispanic or Latino; 17.4 percent Asian; 17.7 percent African American; and 18.8 percent white. About 5.3 percent of students are of two or more races or ethnicities.

Residents within SCUSD speak more than 40 languages; 38 percent of students do not speak English at home.

SCUSD employs 4,213 people and operates with a budget of $383 million.

Program Information

Erlewine School is an Integrated Thematic Instruction School.  For those of you unfamiliar with ITI, it offers a well-balanced, thematic, standards-based instructional program which is closely focused on meeting the individual learning, emotional, social, and physical needs of each student.  Students will learn through different modes, styles, and multiple intelligences.  Themes will be used as a way of understanding and organizing new concepts.  This program has been shown to increase student achievement in part because it presents new information with existing knowledge rather than in isolation.  Teachers will be integrating the Common Core Standards into their themes.

Health & Safety
Address 
2441 Stansberry Way
Sacramento, CA 95826
United States
General Phone 
(916) 228-5870
Website:
http://erlewine.scusd.edu/
Program(s) 
Service Learning
Academic Internships
Organization type 
Education - Administration/District (Nonprofit)
Focus Population(s)
Children/Youth, Teens/Young Adults
Focus Area(s)
Education