Cerro Villa Middle School   Curriculum

Content Standards for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve

These standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.

The following are the California Content Standards in Portable Document Format (PDF). They were originally downloaded from the CDE website to make it easier for the Cerro Villa community to make use of them. The Standards are also available in HTML from the California Department of Education Website at the link below.

English-Language Arts (92 pp.; 614 KB)
ELD Standards - English (93 pp.; 949 KB)
ELD Standards - Spanish (98 pp.; 269 KB)

Mathematics (73 pp.; 516 KB)

History-Social Science (69 pp.; 431 KB)

Science (61 pp.; 506 KB)

Visual and Performing Arts (172 pp.; 1195 KB)
Dance (39 pp.; 193 KB)
Music (39 pp.; 189 KB)
Theatre (39 pp.; 318 KB)
Visual Arts (44 pp.; 209 KB)

Content Standards for California Public Schools

Cerro Villa Middle School offers a wide range of programs to suit the educational needs and abilities of a student body exceeding 1000 students. These include traditional academic classes, sports, exploratory, special education and counseling/academic aid.

Computers
Core: Seventh Grade English and History
Foreign Language (French, German, Spanish, Latin and Japanese)
History
Home Economics (Cooking and Sewing)
Industrial Arts
Language Arts - English, Speech/Drama, Photo-Journalism
Leadership, Library, Clerical, AVID
Mathematics
Music
Physical Education
Reading
Science
Academic Pentathlon

Computers,
Industrial Arts, 
Home Economics,

RSP and SDC

Intra-mural competition after school. There is no competition with other middle schools at the present time.

Textbooks

Test Taking Skills

Counseling/Academic Aid

P.A.S.S.,
Opportunity,
Anger Management,
Conflict Management,
Character Education

Activities and Clubs

Promotion Requirements

Promotion / Retention