Booksin Elementary School

I went to Booksin for first through fifth grade and now I’m graduating from UC Berkeley! Let’s be real for a second: the best teachers at Booksin aren’t going to baby your kids, they’re going to demand excellence. Sure, your kid is going to have fun and make friends and learn things, but trust the teachers to cram as much wonderful, useful, and interesting knowledge into your child’s head as possible. Best teacher there, hands down? Mrs. Markham. Get your kid in her class quick ’cause she loops sometimes with the combo classes! She’ll have your kid reading Magic Treehouse books by the fistful and coding like a wizard.

My son went to Booksin Elementary School for 6 years. Booksin has a nearly perfect rating and a high API score (as of 2015). Overall, the school is pretty good with good academics and school activities. It is worth it to get your kid the better teachers; kids can have an easy or unpleasant year and fall behind with some of the not-​so-​good teachers. It’s clear that the school is changing from white, social oriented, volunteering families to minority, academics only, non-​volunteering families; the school activities may become less common over the coming years due to lack of interest/​volunteers. Booksin can be frustrating for social and ethnic outsiders, both the kids and the parents, but, even so, you can still have a good experience, academically and socially. There is a little bit of name-​calling and minor incidents so it’s not completely bully-​free but bullying is rare and minor. If your family is willing to dedicate one parent to getting the better teachers, keeping your kids engaged in homework and school activities and handling school issues and engaging socially with the other families, your kids can have the ideal elementary education at Booksin.

Well, they’ve blazed through another principal at Booksin and are now doing away with the vice principal, no counselor, and adding 100 more students… SJUSD is awful and they’re ruining Booksin.

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Booksin is the greatest elementary school in the Bay Area. I am convinced completely. I attended in the 70’s, and my daughter is attending now. Booksin has caring teachers, great students, fantastic programs (after school, also!) and a great campus.
A lot has changed since I was a student, but the staff still placed the students first, and the community still participates heavily in school programs. I’m proud to be a parent of a Booksin child.