Bennett Valley Union School District serves students from preschool to grade six in its two schools, Strawberry and Yulupa. The district's schools are located in Southeast Santa Rosa in quiet, residential neighborhoods combining the best of rural and suburban settings.  The Bennett Valley Union School District is a school community where the state of the arts in teaching and learning meld with the past, teaching children of their roots, while providing them wings for tomorrow. Within a learning climate that encourages innovation and creativity, children are nurtured to learn a broad-based academic and extended curriculum necessary for their continuing education and future success. Parent involvement, a hallmark of our district, is vitally important to our overall educational program. Parents and educators work together in an ever-evolving partnership for the children of Bennett Valley.

The BVUSD mission is based on the three pillars of Scholarship, Mentorship, and Friendship.

SCHOLARSHIP 

Our goals to increase the academic achievement level of all students:

• Implement Common Core in a mindful, comprehensive manner to support students with high quality materials and teachers with high quality training.
• Provide students a way to get to school and eat nutritious food. Provide support for truant students and those who might benefit from additional instructional time due to disciplinary concerns
• Provide parents ways to be meaningfully involved with the education of their children

District Initiatives to Accomplish the Goals

• Provide effective Instruction for ALL: Provide first, best instruction to all students in a high-quality academic curriculum 

MENTORSHIP

Our goals to close achievement gaps between subgroups:

• Implementation of Common Core: Provide students, particularly those struggling, socio-economically disadvantaged, and English learners with the support necessary to achieve proficiency in State Standards
• Provide parents ways to be meaningfully involved with the education of their children

District Initiatives to Accomplish the Goals

• Provide a Multi-Tiered System of Academic Supports and Interventions to struggling students that include after and during school programs and to gifted students

FRIENDSHIP

Our goals to ensure a safe environment that nurtures student social/emotional development:

• Enhance student social/emotional safety and skills to maintain a positive school climate for all

District Initiatives to Accomplish the Goals

• Provide a Multi-Tiered System of Behavioral and School Culture Supports that focuses on Safety, Respect, and Personal Responsibility: BEST, Tool Box, Second Step, Recess Options, Counseling Groups, Buddy bench