Sunset View Elementary School registration is now open and we are accepting all grades, K-4!?Come in or call to register from June 8 to 12.

Besides the incredible view, Sunset View Elementary has an academic API rating of 10.  Our teachers meet regularly to review the academics and find ways to keep the students engaged and excelling.  Our physical education program extends to before school, with a running club that allows students the extra physical activity needed. 

We are very proud to offer a whole school ocean immersion program through the University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science.  M.A.R.E. is a hands-on science program that brings the ocean in to all our classrooms.  Literally!  Live creatures from snails to crawdads live among the students while children study different parts of our marine world.  You can find more information about the program at www.lawrencehallofscience.org/mare.

Despite the ever-increasing cuts at our district schools, Sunset View’s strong parent groups, PTA and Foundation have secured many programs at our site.  From our Foundation’s generosity, Sunset View will have a VAPA program that includes music, dance and drama for all students every week this upcoming school year.  All grades participate in structured art lessons through Art Corps that focus on famous artists and art concepts.  Our 3rd and 4th grades work with a professional poet.  This year, we started “Everyone A Reader” at our site to support students needing extra help to build a strong reading foundation. 

Through the PTA, Sunset View won a Healthy Lifestyles award for our physical education and garden programs. 

All our teachers bring something positive to the classroom.  Recently in one kindergarten class, baby chicks were born.  Our very own 2nd-grade teacher, Laurie Fleming, won KPRI’s Teachers Make a Difference award this year. 

Mrs. Sobel’s 3rd-grade class studied wetlands birds on a field trip to the Famosa Slough and will follow up their study with a hands-on opportunity to help preserve one of the fastest disappearing habitats we know. 

We also provide our students opportunities to see beyond their own playground.  Our recycling and “Go Green” programs teach our students to care for our world.  We hold an annual book exchange for students to recycle their books with each other and we donate leftover books to schools like our own cluster school, Cabrillo Elementary, and to a women and children shelter.  Our Character Counts program created a wonderful opportunity for Sunset View to join hands with the San Diego Chargers and their outreach program to bring monthly meals to the homeless.  And the World Language Cesar Chavez Club is currently holding a food drive for Angel’s Depot to provide food for the elderly. 

Every year, our PTA holds a jog-a-thon to earn money to support the wonderful programs that we are able to give our students.  This year our PTA jog-a-thon fundraiser had a very significant theme.  The “Giving Feet” event raised over $20,000 for our school, but it didn’t stop there.  Not only did our students run for their school, they ran for other students as well.  We made a commitment to share 5 percent of what we earned with a neighborhood school.  Last month, we presented a check for $1,000 to Cabrillo Elementary that it will use for much-needed equipment.

Please contact the office at (619) 223-7156 for a tour or to register your child. We are located at 4365 Hill St. You may also visit our website,

sunsetviewelementary.com.

Jessica Komasa

Sunset View PTA President 2008-2009