School Information
Canyon View
Based on student learning results, Canyon View School has distinguished itself over its fourteen years of existence. Earning an Academic Performance Index score of 966 in 2011, Canyon View continues to be recognized as a top performing school in Orange County. Canyon View contributes the largest number of elementary science projects at the district science fair. School artists and musicians are regularly featured in I.U.S.D. Honor Band and chorus performances, as well as numerous art shows, such as the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, the Imagination Celebration, City Hall and local merchant displays.
Canyon View School opened our doors for kindergarten through grade 6 at an interim portable site in September 1998, and moved to our current facility in spring, 2000. The Canyon View staff, in collaboration with our parents, students, and community partners, has created a broadly effective K-6 educational program that has received the highest state recognition -"California Distinguished School" both in 2002 and 2008, as well as national recognition as a "NCLB National Blue Ribbon School." Canyon View parents are deeply committed to our school and our staff, and ALL our students, and constantly look for ways to enrich our instructional program.
Our Facility
Our facility houses 36 classrooms, including dedicated spaces for special programs, such as music, art, science, and special day classes. The school has state-of-the-art tech infrastructure to support technology including 300 ports to the Internet and school-wide video capacity. An Information Resource Center (IRC) serves as an electronic hub for the three major wings of the school, providing information access and communication throughout the building, community and world. Each classroom is self-contained, and clusters of rooms adjoin a common technology satellite area to facilitate technology-supported teaching and learning.
School Mission
Our mission is to empower all students to succeed in a diverse and changing world.
Staff Beliefs and Philosophy
- Every student is entitled to a safe and orderly learning environment.
- Each child deserves to be treated with respect.
- All students can learn and succeed, including the mastery of challenging concepts and processes.
- A challenging, safe-to-risk environment promotes successful learning and performance.
- Each teacher is responsible for meeting the needs of all students in the classroom.
- Thinking, values education and life-long learning skills are equally as important as content-based instruction.
- Students need many and varied opportunities to apply their learning in authentic contexts to successfully internalize and generalize their learning.
Our Staff and Community
Our dedicated staff has carefully addressed various learner needs, including gifted and talented students, special education students and limited English students representing twenty-two ethnic and language groups, through our standards-based system of education coupled with a system-wide 3-tier model of curriculum. Our success is a result of the hard work of your hugely committed stakeholders AND the effectiveness of our dedication to link rigorous standards, academic support, and assessment components to student outcomes. It’s through our leadership as well as collaboration with our families and community partners that, a positive school culture exists with targeted professional development to support all students. Our parents value literacy and learning, and they generously support the goals of the school program. Our mission is to empower students to succeed in a diverse and changing world. We welcome visitors to our campus and would like to invite you to experience our educational community firsthand.
Our School Homework Plan
The Canyon View Staff is committed to supporting children in realizing their full academic, social and emotional potential. An essential component is a strong partnership between staff, students and their families. We believe that homework should be purposeful, reflect the rich instruction in our classrooms, and provide a vehicle for increased communication between staff, students and families. All homework assignments at Canyon View are designed to provide students with opportunities to practice academic skills, construct new meaning from content, instill foundational study skills and bridge school learning into the home environment.
Please click on the link below to access our homework plan.
Canyon View Elementary Homework Plan
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