San Bruno Education Foundation

In order to strengthen public education for all San Bruno Park School District children we will foster community partnerships, advocate around issues of public education on behalf of our community's children, and enhance resources to supplement educational opportunities that will inspire life-long learning. Our more near term strategies will focus on two primary objectives: 1) to enhance communication and to promote a unified foundation of support between the San Bruno Park School District administration, the onsite PTA/PTO leadership at our 5 elementary and 1 intermediate schools, and our student families, and 2) to plan, promote, and execute community building events that will raise awareness of critical challenges and opportunities in San Bruno public schools.

The San Bruno Education Foundation is fortunate to have an all volunteer board of talented and hard working individuals willing to dedicate their gifts to making a difference for our children and our community. Over the 15 year history of our organization, we have evolved from raising approximately $5,000 in annual funding to over half a million dollars in 2018-2019. We accomplished this achievement by weaving together an ecosystem of support from our local business, corporate, philanthropic, foundation, and civic communities. We have worked closely with our various partners and the San Bruno Park School District administration to support a rich variety of supplemental academic enrichment programming, transformational initiatives, and professional development for our hard working staff.

As we continue to advance toward our goal of a community united in support behind our schools, we utilize several metrics against which we measure our success. We firstly measure engagement from our community partners and school families by their participation in site-specific community activities as well as our larger San Bruno-wide community activity during our annual Children's Day celebration in the spring. We have seen our participation rates continue to climb every year over the last 5 years with over 800 individuals in attendance at last year's Children's Day event. As a secondary metric of success, we track participation rates for financial support of our organization. We have observed similar upward trends in rates of giving from our families. As we continue to advance toward our goal of strengthening public education in San Bruno public schools, we primarily measure our impact by the number of students that benefit from initiatives and programming that we support. We are also engaged in collecting baseline academic performance data that will serve as a reference point for future analysis of the impact of our programs' impact.

Historically, the San Bruno Education Foundation primarily supported our schools by the provision of supplemental funding to our site leadership. More recently, we have shifted focus toward broader district-wide programming and transformational initiatives that we believe are likely to have greater impact for more students across San Bruno Park. We hope to leverage economies of scale and to engender consistent, high quality systems of support that ensure a balance of equity and equality for all children in our schools. We are particularly proud of our award-winning music education programs that provide a continuum of high quality music education opportunities for all students in our district. As we look forward we hope to build upon that foundation to increase support for our Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programming opportunities as well as increasing our professional development support for staff and increasing support for systems to ensure that struggling students are quickly connected with appropriate resources to ensure that they can achieve their full academic potential.