Cesar Chavez Elementary School

At 1221 Anderson Road, Davis, California lies Cesar Chavez Elementary School. Originally at this location was the prior school, West Davis Elementary school. In 1997 they turned West Davis Elementary School into Cesar Chavez Elementary School, a Spanish immersion (just like Language immersion) school. The hope with making the school the first Spanish immersion in Yolo County was to teach children at a young age (early immersion) the Spanish Language both verbal, writing and the culture. Cesar Chavez is a Spanish immersion school, meaning that at the school they learn both Spanish and English. The Spanish thus is integrated into the standard curriculum.Overview of DJUSDCesar Chavez elementary school is part of the Davis Joint Unified School District which includes Elementary Schools; Robert E. Willett, Valley Oak Elementary, Birch Lane, Cesar Chavez, Pioneer, Patwin, North Davis, Marguerite Montgomery, and Fred T. Korematsu. Middle Schools; Harper Junior High, Holmes Junior High and Emerson Junior High. High Schools; Davis Senior High, Martin Luther King Jr. High, and DaVinci High School. The Davis School District also offers alternative schools which include Davis Adult School, Davis School Independent Study, Children’s Center, and Martin Luther King High School. Davis’s public schools are known for their stellar performance on standardized testing. As of 2006 the Superintendent is David Murphy.Spanish immersionAs pointed out above, Spanish immersion at this school is believed and known to be a way of initially teaching the children at the school how to speak and write in Spanish at the starting age of 6 or 7 and continue until graduation in 6th grade. By this time they hope that the children have a good boost to being fluent in the Spanish language later on in life. At Cesar Chavez, all courses; Spanish, Math, Social Studies, Science, and even P.E. and Computer arts are taught in Spanish.