Pacific Beach Elementary
Features at a glance
An organic garden on campus
Ecology and environment learning programs
School-based sports and athletics clubs
Parent involvement programs, including a parent center
Additional support and programs for military families
Wellness programs and onsite wellness coordinator
Safe and inclusive anti-bullying leadership programs
Community and business partnerships
After-school learning enrichment opportunities
Before and after school care
Additional Visual and Performing Arts clubs, partnerships, and opportunities
Gifted and Talented Education
Integrated project-based learning
State-of-the-art STEAM Makerspace
Music
Performing Arts
Pacific Beach Elementary offers a unique, challenging, and highly motivational curriculum that nurtures critical thinking skills and enhances the educational experience for children at every grade level. Our superb staff, active and supportive parents, and high-achieving students make our school one of San Diego Unified School District's best kept secrets.
PBE offers:
- Differentiated instruction for all learners, including GATE and GATE/Seminar
- Partnership with San Diego Youth Science to facilitate science programs that encourage students’ active engagement through hands-on learning and inquiry-driven experiences that allow students to explore and communicate understanding about real world scientific phenomena.
- Lessons in the Visual and Performing Arts (Dance, Music and Art) for all students grades TK-5
- Additional Music Classes for students in grades 4 & 5
- The Arts Attack art program which won praise from the San Diego Unified School District's VAPA organization
- A garden science program with each grade level planting, tending and sowing vegetables, herbs, native plants, fruits and cotton
- After School enrichment programs
- Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Program (PBIS)
- Safety Patrol
- Student Leadership Club
- a variety of educational assemblies
- classroom enrichment activities including field trips and guest speakers
- instruction responsive to the individual needs of students
- active parent and community involvement
- A Science Lab and Maker-Space
- A mission and vision that aims to realize that worth and potential of all learners
- Excellent teachers that are innovative and understand that they are preparing our students for careers that have yet to be invented
- School-Community partnerships
