Clover Flat School Description and Mission Statement:

Clover Flat Elementary is located approximately sixty-five miles east of San Diego. It is one of six elementary schools in the Mountain Empire Unified School District. The Boulevard area is a rural mountain town of approximately 2,500 people. The majority (54.5 percent) of our student population is White and 24.4 percent are Hispanic. Within the area are three Indian reservations - La Posta, Manzanita, and Campo Reservations - giving Clover Flat a Native American population of approximately 17.3 percent. The balance of our student population is 1.3 percent Black and less than 1 percent Asian-American.

The school has one permanent classroom and nine relocateable classrooms. It offers class-size reduction for grades K-3, a Special Day/RSP Class, a library, a computer lab, a preschool, and a Before and After School program. Seven teachers and a RSP/SDC teacher for special education comprise the teaching staff. The teaching staff is relatively stable and most teachers currently live in the San Diego area. Teachers have been on site from one to twenty years with almost half having been here over five years. The teachers at Clover Flat have been teaching from one to twenty or more years. To assist the teachers, there are five part-time teacher assistants and, for special education, one full-time and two part-time teacher assistants. A speech therapist, a nurse, a District psychologist, and Adaptive PE Specialist are shared with the other schools in the district. Through area agencies, individual and group counseling services are also available with parent permission.

The major source of employment is through government agencies (e.g. U. S. Border Patrol, California Highway Patrol, Sheriff's Department, Department of Corrections, U. S. Post Office, and Cal Trans.) There are a few local businesses, which employ residents, but most of the population that works commutes fifty or more miles to San Diego or El Centro. There are many families living here who receive Aid for dependent Children (AFDC), thus giving the school a high poverty and transience rate. Opportunities for educational, cultural, and extra-curricular experiences are scarce, but can be reached by driving fifty or more miles east or west.

Clover Flat Elementary will provide a quality education for every student in a warm, safe, and caring environment; instill independent thinking and a lifelong love of learning; foster an appreciation for the cultural, ethnic, and racial differences in all children; and enable all students to read at grade level by the end of third grade.