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Our Mission and Philosophy Alvarado is more than a school; it is a community. We are a school of languages, arts, cultures and social justice. Our mission is to reach and teach the heart and soul of the child through a fertile language experience, math, the arts and sciences. We believe community, equity and the transformative power of a challenging education help our students reach their potential. Alvarado offers a quality General Education as well as an award-winning Spanish Immersion program. A resident artist works curriculum into painting and clay projects created in our art room; a science instructor leads the children through experiments in our science lab. We also focus on the social and emotional growth of our students, celebrating our ethnic differences while sharing our Cougar pride. Academic Program Alvarado is a dual-immersion TK–5th grade school with 530+ students in four programs: General Education, Spanish Immersion, Special Education and Transitional Kindergarten. Our teachers follow the curriculum established by the San Francisco Unified School District. Our Spanish and English curriculums mirror each other and are based on Macmillan/McGraw Hill for social studies; Reading & Writing Workshop for language arts; Common Core and DreamBox for mathematics; and the Full Option Science System (FOSS). Our programs also provide daily instruction in English Language Development.