Key Facts
Black Pine Circle School
Lower School

125
students

6:1
student-faculty ratio
Upper School

199
students

7:1
student-faculty ratio
Whole School

21
typical class size

324
students

100%
students learn Spanish in grades K-5
(grades 6-8 choose Spanish or Mandarin)
Full-Time Teaching Assistants
in EVERY classroom, grades K-5
Whole Child Approach
social and emotional learning curriculum, including Responsive Classroom, Kimochis, Second Step, advisories, and buddies
Student Support Services
learning specialists and school counselors
Outstanding Campus Facilities
music, art, and drama, new science and maker space, climbing wall, and athletic field
Where do our graduates go to high school?
About half of each graduating class goes on to public high school. Others choose independent or parochial schools. All have excellent choices!

Three-year average 2020-2022 graduating classes
Diversity by the Numbers

who identify as people of color
who identify as people of color
who identify as people of color
born outside the US
in the student body
percent of families
* self-identified; most facts as of Sept 2022
Every day, Black Pine Circle School’s teachers put the nurturing of young minds at the center of their personal mission. Our talented faculty bring a wealth of personal interests and skills to their classrooms: they are poets and songwriters, makers and artists, ultramarathoners and Olympic swimmers.

46
faculty

1850
aggregate hours of
professional development

50%
faculty with advanced degrees

10.5
average years
teaching at our school

19.5
average years
teaching experience
Paths of Belonging

74
upper schoolers in sports teams playing co-ed basketball, volleyball, and soccer

15
consecutive years
All-Star Mathletes

73
students
played violin & cello

59
students in our
band program

62+
students who joined the Maker Club and ran booths at the East Bay Mini-Maker Faire & Bay Area Maker Faire

4
chickens hatched on campus and living
in coop built by students, parents and faculty

600,000
words collectively written by 67 students during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)