John Muir School is a magnet option of San Diego City Schools. Our address is 4431 Mount Herbert Avenue, San Diego, CA 92117-4728. Our phone is 
(858) 268-1954
, and our fax is (858) 627-9289.
Muir's K-12 grade span and smaller class sizes promote a family atmosphere in which students are both teachers and learners in multi-grade groupings. Our graduates are college ready, technologically savvy, and world wise.
Visit our campus.
Muir's permanent site is 4431 Mt. Herbert Avenue in the Clairemont area. A 2.5 million dollar renovation that includes school-wide classroom and playground transformations, a new science lab and a K-12 library with plenty of room to think, read, write and present student team and individual inquiry projects is almost completed.
Join us.
Download an application and fax your application to Muir (858) 627-9289 or Enrollment Options (619) 692-0269. John Muir School is a SDCS integration program. All students must complete an Enrollment Options Application in order to attend. Call Muir for further information at (858) 268-1954.
Mission Statement:
The mission of John
Muir School
is to create a community of empowered learners who are productive global
learners.
Vision
statement:
John
Muir’s program equips students with the knowledge, skills, and values to
achieve academic excellence through a focus on global responsibilities. Utilizing Paideia learning strategies,
technology, and project-based learning, we prepare our students to become
life-long learners who collaborate effectively, work creatively, and think
critically to benefit themselves, their communities and the world.
Expected School-wide Learning Results Students will become:
1. informed and effective communicators,
2. complex critical thinkers and problem solvers,
3. collaborative workers who contribute to, interact with and lead in the worldwide community,
4. well-rounded individuals who recognize and address local, national, and international responsibilities.
Return to www.sandi.net/muir. Congratulations, Class of '08!
News notes:
Muir
will continue to have a late start next year. Bell times for 2008-9
will be 8:55 to 3:47.
Muir's Kindergarten/First Grade class has been selected to be a part of this
year's Museum of Photographic Arts 3rd Annual Youth Exhibition-Writing With
Light. They photographed each other and
wrote a story called “The Monster That Ate Pizza.”
