Amy Alzina Superintendent

Amy Alzina Superintendent is additionally the Principal for the Cold Spring School District, Montecito, CA. Her tenure in this position has been for the last three years. Dr. Amy Alzina provides exceptional educational leadership. Her focus is on creating a collaborative student-centered team to ensure the academic and social emotional support of every child. Amy Alzina Superintendent’s mission is to improve student learning outcomes and creating a whole child approach to teaching and learning.

Recently, Cold Spring School District experienced two separate natural disasters, back-to-back; a wildfire followed by a debris flow/mudslide. The District, a one-school school district, nestled in the foothills of Santa Barbara, experienced the full brunt of both disasters. The recovery efforts began immediately during the Thomas Fire, December 2017, and continues to this day, two and a half years later.

Educating the Whole Child at Cold Spring School

Cold Spring School is a TK-6 public elementary school District embarking on its 129th year of providing high quality education to children. We are a one-school District, and our enrollment this year is approximately 169 children. The school is proud of its comprehensive approach to elementary education that prepares children for success throughout their educational career and helps them become active participants in our community.

One fundamental key to this approach lies in our low student-to-teacher ratios (the K-6 class size average is 18), which gives personal attention to each student by a dedicated and talented faculty, coupled with strong support from parents and community members alike. The caliber of education provided by our staff of highly skilled and enthusiastic teachers gives our students strength, understanding, and compassion — values that will benefit our country and future generations.

Another key factor is our strong academic program that provides students with a strong base in fundamental skills and concepts while promoting critical thinking skills, problem solving, and creativity. Cold Spring School students consistently demonstrate high levels of academic achievement on the California Standardized Tests and as they move through the junior high and high school programs.

But it’s the school’s impressive support of the visual and performing arts programs as well as specialists’ programs in physical education and STEAM whose aim is to create deeper connections to the core classroom through project-based learning that completes its whole child approach to teaching and learning. The Specialist programs are designed to be complementary with and integrated into other aspects of learning with the goal that each child gains a sense of confidence and enthusiasm that comes from being creative.