Almaden Country Day School

Features and Highlights

• OGA-accredited, The Learning Center, serves children with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia in grades 1-8
• Specialist educators for makerspace, music, band, theater arts, science, visual arts, world languages, math, social studies, speech & debate, and library
• Over 40 elective offerings for middle school students
• Experiential and educational overnight trips include destinations such as Paris, Catalina Island, Yosemite, New York, Washington D.C., and service learning in Puerto Rico, among others
• Summer camps for five weeks that offer both classic and niche experiences such as art, sports, STEAM, coding, music, performing arts, counselor-in-training, and more
• Positive Discipline, the chosen social-emotional learning philosophy, is adopted and integrated throughout all school levels; Almaden Country Day School is a Positive Discipline Lab School.

About Almaden Country Day School

Almaden Country Day School is nondenominational and coed, serving 425 children in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade. Founded in 1982, ACDS follows a developmental instructional model with heterogeneous grouping and an emphasis on balance and deepening understanding rather than accelerating learning. The school's mission is to "discover the gifts in every child." Since 2018, ACDS has also offered The Learning Center (TLC), a program for academically capable children with language-based learning challenges like dyslexia. TLC serves about 50 students in grades 1-8 who are fully integrated with their peers in all enrichment and elective classes, including science, music, art, and PE.