Chula Vista Elementary School District

Each Child is an Individual of Great Worth

Nearly 150 Chula Vista Elementary School District employees have been notified of immediate eligibility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This effort to offer vaccinations to District personnel who provide health-related student assistance is an important tool in the nation’s fight against the virus that causes COVID-19.

From dissecting a squid to building a solar tower, students in the Chula Vista Elementary School District explore exciting science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics activities during distance learning through weekly Innovation LIVE! events. Each Friday afternoon, hundreds of students tune in online to see what CVESD’s innovation teachers have planned to promote creativity and stimulate learning.

CVESD Safe! Testing and Tracing Program launched last week at six school sites over five days.

What’s a school library to do when schools are closed to in-person instruction because of the pandemic?

The Chula Vista Elementary School District is excited to announce its recent award of a nearly $900,000 grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).

As ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood!’ gifts go, Burlington Stores created a great first impression.

The Board of Education recently recognized its “District Wellness Champions” for 2019-20, which are individuals or schools that have worked diligently to improve health and wellness.

A limited number of students will be returning to campuses in our District as part of the Distance Learning Support Program.

Each school and the District will track whether students are participating in online classes and accessing remote learning. Students’ attendance in a virtual environment is just as important as it is during in-person instruction.

Help us reopen schools more quickly and safely. Wear a mask. Slow the spread. Learn how the Chula Vista Elementary School District is doing its part in this video for parents.

The Governor’s recently announced pandemic plan centered on five key areas, including public health guidance that recommends “staff in every California school be tested for COVID-19 periodically based on local disease trends and as testing capacity allows.”

Learn details about our District’s distance learning plan via a narrated presentation by Matthew R. Tessier, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent of Innovation and Instruction.

Board meetings will be conducted virtually and streamed until state and federal guidance allow in-person meetings to resume.

A new study from the Learning Policy Institute takes an in-depth look at strategies in our District that helped to raise student academic performance above their peer groups in other California school districts.

A former San Diego police officer, Superintendent Francisco Escobedo, Ed.D., wanted to make a difference earlier in children’s lives, before they became known to police. Today, he is a 'Superintendent of the Year.'

CVESD was the only elementary district among the eight in San Diego County designated as 'positive outliers' by the Learning Policy Institute