Mission Statement

Los Padres Elementary teachers, staff, in partnership with parents and community, will establish a nurturing environment to prepare and motivate all students to achieve academic excellence. All students will be provided with quality instruction and the academic, social and personal skills necessary for success to become life long learners in moving towards college and career readiness in the 21st century.

School Profile

Los Padres School is one of thirteen elementary schools in the Salinas City Elementary School District and is located in the district's eastside region. It is a community with a high number of low socioeconomic residents. The school serves an average of 783 students. The student population represents a diverse cultural community, with approximately 89.4% of the students having a home language other than English.

The Los Padres School students are predominately economically disadvantaged and are limited English proficient. Approximately 534 students of our student population are identified as English Language Learners (ELL).

The students are served by the following certificated staff: 35 K-6 Teachers and one RSP Teacher. The following personnel serve as support staff at Los Padres School: a .4 PTE Math Teacher, .4 PTE Vocal Music Teacher, a .4 PTE Speech Pathologist, a .4 PTE Psychologist, a .6 PTE Parent Coordinator and a full-time Program Manager. In addition, the following classified personnel supports the school: a part-time Health Aide, a part-time Librarian Aide, a part-time Computer Lab Aide, one part-time Instructional Aide, one part-time RSP Instructional Aide, three part time Counselors, a part-time Migrant Aide, a full time Administrative Assistant, and a part-time Attendance Clerk.

The school maintains a very active School Site Council (SSC), an English Language Parent Advisory Committee (ELAC), and a Parent/Teacher Group (PTG), which meet on a monthly basis. The parent officers are committed and eager to participate in making important decisions affecting school programs.

Student STAR test results for the past several years show that students have been performing below the required Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements in Language Arts and Math. In the last 10 years, Los Padres has gained 163 API points, with 2 point gain during the 2012-2013 school year. In Kindergarten through third grade classrooms were staffed for 23:1 student to teacher ratio and grades four though six classrooms were reduced to 25:1 student to teacher average. Furthermore, Los Padres continues to support math instruction to further the success students have been achieving in the API and AYP under this content area. As a result, Los Padres has partnered with Hartnell College to form a strong mathematical interest in the school. Staff and parent are committed to improve the education of Los Padres students.

Los Padres continues to set high standards and to demand high expectations from all students. With the full implementation of the Common Core State Standards, Los Padres staff is confident that students will have the necessary tools to become life long learners in this rapidly changing and global society.

Solar Energy at Our Site

In 2014 Salinas City Elementary School district installed solar panels in 14 sites. This project is expected to reduce electricity costs at the district's 14 sites by 80 to 90 percent.

In addition, students will benefit from opportunities to learn about energy conservation, sustainability and clean technology while being able to see the results first hand.

The following is a link to the live feed of the solar energy generated at Los Padres. On this page you can not only see how much has been generated to date, but also how many light bulbs this equals, how much CO2 has been offset, and more.