Academics | Almaden Country Day School

Top Private School in San Jose – Pre-K, Kindergarten, Elementary & Middle School

Our students gain confidence and thrive in an opportunity-rich, high-challenge, low-stress environment.

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Founded on Balance

Almaden Country Day School’s instructional program is founded on balance: academic rigor, character development, and joyful learning.

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Middle School electives

Sports

No-cut team sports and clinics

STEAM

Taught in our labs, open spaces, and outdoor gardens

Makerspace

For inventing, engineering, and design thinking

30+

Theater performances annually

Languages

Spanish, French, and Mandarin

Robotics

Coding and programming in science and electives

Big Buddies

Pairing older students with our youngest for activities

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A Rich and Extensive Learning Program

In addition to our innovative mathematics, STEM, literacy programs, social studies, and technology education, the ACDS curriculum features enrichment and elective courses taught by specialist teachers supporting an array of exciting learning opportunities.

An Individualized, Engaging Learning Experience for Children

Our rich and extensive academic program, combined with small class sizes and dynamic, caring expert teachers, creates a highly personalized and engaging learning experience for every child at our school. Our goal at ACDS is to ensure that every day, every child is challenged, stimulated, and cared for. That’s our promise to our families.

A Developmental Instructional Approach

Through a developmental instructional approach, which is supported by research and endorsed by leading international education experts including Dr. Diane Ravitch, Sir Ken Robinson, Stanford’s Dr. Jo Boaler, and others, our students are inspired to pursue a wide range of academic interests and options beyond our core curriculum. ACDS students become curious, confident, self-directed learners who thrive in a high-opportunity, low-stress campus environment.

Exceeding the Standards

The ACDS curriculum itself is designed to exceed state and national academic content-area standards, while affording our teachers considerable flexibility to meet the learning needs of individual children. Teachers collaborate with our Assistant Heads of School for learning support coordination to identify and provide ongoing support for students who need more help or more of a challenge, including high-achieving students who require more demanding lesson extensions.

Above all, the ACDS instructional program is about balance: academic rigor, character development, and joyful learning.

ACDS is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.

For more information about our instructional program, please contact Head of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Ms. Jane Murphy, or Head of Middle School, Mr. Jeremy Adams.