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Civic Center Secondary School

School code number: 483
Grade Level: County School
Hours: -

300 Seneca Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94112
Neighborhood: Outer Mission
Phone: (415) 469-4040
Principal: Elisa Villafuerte

Uniforms

None

Special Education Programs

Language Programs

Civic Center Secondary School, an Integrated Behavior Academic School, receives supplemental funding through San Francisco Department of Public Health to provide Aggression Replacement Training for staff to provide this necessary service. The Department of Children, Youth and their Families provides funding for our comprehensive Career Education Program, and Proposition H provides funding for Physical and Arts Education. The Public Utilities Commission provides tutoring services for students on an individualized basis. Plans for onsite City College Emergency Medical Technician classes are currently being explored to provide this exciting service for our students in spring 2008.

Opportunities for Parental Involvement

Parents are encouraged to participate fully in their children's education on a variety of levels. The unique IBA School model includes case management and individulized student services geared specifically toward our unique population, and requires participation of every school staff member. Daily communication with parents addresses attendance, behavior, academic and transition issues. Parents are always included in school functions regarding their children's progress and that of the school in general. Teachers, counselors, county psychologist and principal regularly meet with parents regarding student issues.

Additional Info

Civic Center Secondary, located at 300 Seneca Avenue, serves school students grades 7 through 12.  Students from many areas of The City are provided with a middle and high school curriculum aligned with State and District Standards. The school offers over 300 instructional minutes per day. 

Classes include Grade 7-12 Language Arts; Integrated Mathematics and Algebra; World, US History and Government; Integrated Sciences Lab and Biology; Physical Education, English, Math and Exit Exam Intervention; Cyber Online High School, Arts Education, GED, City College transition classes, a comprehensive Career Development program including training, placement and job coaching.  Special Education is provided for RSP and SDC students in accordance with IEPs written, updated and implemented onsite.  Special Education staff includes an SDC teacher, RSP teacher and paraprofessional. 

Civic Center Secondary is the site of a unique and comprehensive program for SFUSD: an Integrated Behavior Academic (IBA) School.  The program has several critical characteristics specifically tailored for students reentering an academic setting.  It creates a professional learning community in which responses to student needs are systematic, timely, and directive.  This allows students to be identified as soon as they experience difficulty, allowing the focus to be on intervention rather than remediation.

The IBA program is targeted for the most at-risk students, those with habitual truancy, significant behavior issues, and histories of suspension and expulsion.  The program's goal is to change behavior so that these students will stay in school and earn enough credits to graduate.

To achieve this goal, the IBA School program provides a flexible, purposeful, and coordinated system of support for both students and teachers.  Students are provided with a 'tool box' for learning, including those tools needed for mastery of basic skills.  Special emphasis is placed on programs related to numeracy and literacy.  To address students' emotional needs, individual, group counseling and other research-based programs model are implemented.

Working as a team under the direction of the County Psychologist, teachers and counselors develop a plan for intervention, and along with students establish a collective commitment based on student needs.  The IBA program also involves student groups, pre-job training and placement; and the Step-to-College Program.  Marks of achievement will be a significant reduction in truancy and for students to be working collaboratively on programs such as Student Council and the Model United Nations.

The structure of the program is based on dividing the students into teams of about forty individuals.  Each team has a counselor and teachers assigned to it who become the team leaders.  The counselors support teachers through training, monitoring student behavior and progress, and facilitating interventions when necessary.  Every staff member is affiliated with a team.  The teams are overseen by the County Psychologist.  A specialized mentoring program utilizing SFUSD Superintendent's Office staff is available for specific students identified by teams.

Civic Center Secondary School at the John Swett Campus proudly houses both San Francisco School Volunteers and our County School, and is consistently undergoing continuous building improvements to better serve its constituents. The beautiful, immaculate building was constructed in 1911, and has been retrofitted to accommodate its new tenants. The facility blacktop and sports yard has been completely renovated and provides a multitude of uses for students and staff.