Key Facts
Black Pine Circle School
Lower School
Upper School
Whole School
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 choices!
Three-year average 2016-2018 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
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.
How Our Faculty Hone Their Craft
Black Pine Circle School is as committed to encouraging lifelong learning in its faculty and administration as it is to encouraging its students to be lifelong learners. Each year, we invest over $100,000 in workshops and training, both on site and by sending faculty and staff to important local and national conferences. Providing teachers and administrators with the opportunity for professional growth and personal development is key to their retention and job satisfaction. It is also an important component of what drives BPC to improve its program year after year.
- Art and Curriculum Design at SFSU
- Autism, Asperger’s, Sensory Processing Disorder, and ADHD
- Bay Area Teachers Development Collaborative Training
- Bridges in Mathematics
- Computer Using Educators
- Contexts for Learning Mathematics
- Council in Schools | The Ojai Foundation
- Differentiated Instruction Training
- Exploratorium: Summer Institute for Teachers
- FabLearn Conferences
- Gender Spectrum Train the Trainers
- Learning and the Brain Conference
- Lucy Calkins: The Reading and Writing Project
- Maker Ed Convening
- National Council for Teachers of Mathematics Conference
- Orff-Schulwerk Association
- Origins: Developmental Designs
- People of Color Conference
- reMAKE Education
- Responsive Classroom
- Socratic Seminars International
- SXSW Edu
- Teach21
- Teaching for Social Justice
- Women Rising, Honing Leadership
* self-identified; most facts as of May 2018
Paths of Belonging
