J B DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOL Go back
280 WOODLAND AVE
SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901
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Phone: 415-485-2400
School Information
  • GreatSchools Rating: 7
  • Educational Climate: Above Average
  • Technology Measure: Medium-high
  • Type: Public
  • Grades: 6th Grade - 8th Grade
  • District: San Rafael Elementary School District
  • Students/Teacher: 18
  • Students/Grade: 282
  • Number Students: 846
  • Number Teachers: 48
  • Number Classrooms: 69
  • Expense/Pupil: $4,900.00 - 5,099.99
  • Poverty Level: UNCLASSIFIED
  • Number Computers: 250
  • Number PCs: 0
  • Number Macs: 250
  • Principal: Dr Harriet Maclean
  • CHARTER SCHOOL
  • GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAMS
  • ESL
  • SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • ADVANCED PLACEMENT
  • BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
  • ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
  • YEAR ROUND CLASSES
  • VOC-TECH
  • ADULT EDUCATION
  • NCLB SCHOOL
  • BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL
  • COALITION OF ESSENTIAL SCHOOLS
  • AYP SCHOOL
  • INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
  • MAGNET SCHOOL
School Ratings & Reviews

School Ratings (29 ratings)
Maximum Rating: 5




    School Reviews (20 Reviews)
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    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-04-27
    "Davidson is a wonderful, ethnically diverse, community-based school with an amazing principal. The principal greets students at the beginning of each day and directs traffic at the end of the day to make time for chatting with parents. The art department, wood shop course and music are our favorites. Something people may not know is the school has a fantastic garden and creek in the back where science classes explore and do lab work. The garden club plants, composts, waters and maintains the garden and everyone is welcome. They even make salads, pestos and tomatillo salsa after harvesting! My daughter is thriving as a small fish in a big pond; she is happy and smiling every day and has met so many nice, hard-working friends there. She gets to know new kids every class because the teachers organize a lot of group projects where students get to work together, at school. Every quarter, they have an honor roll assembly to recognize all of the students' accomplishments and it is a joy to see so many of them walking up there, proud as can be! When there is a problem in the classroom, the principal has taken strong and immediate action."
    Other Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-03-27
    "The administration frowns on teachers referrals, says that discipline issues need to be solved in the classroom. Students are well aware that their teachers are not backed up by a strong administration, therefore, the inmates run the asylum while Ms (or DR as she insists on being called) McClean boasts that suspensions are down. Uh, suspensions are down because the administration refuses to take action, not because student behavior has improved! The lower achievers drag down the higher achievers as Dr. McClean has also gotten ride of honors classes. There is a grand dumbing down of students here, and their poor classroom manners which are accepted here, are not accepted at high schools while offering a sad reflection of what the students learned, or sadly, did not learn, here at Davidson Middle School. Please know, I am not blaming the teachers. To paraphrase Truman, the buck stops there--at the principal's desk."
    Other Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-02-04
    "The emphasis here is on political correctness and trying to provide basic skills for the high percentage of students who speak English as a second language. Teachers are grilled on the need to be "culturally sensitive;" unfortunately this translates to "not too white," and anyone who demands too much of his/her students will be sanctioned in some way. Unfortunately middle school happens around the time many Latino students lose sight of future goals, especially college, mostly due to cultural factors. Davidson does nothing to counteract this, and many students leave without the tools they need for college preparatory work in high school--this is "cultural sensitivity" in action. If you want to be sure your child will be prepared for high school and college, instead of succumbing to "dumb-it-down" peer pressure, choose another school."
    Other Review | Rating:
    Posted 2011-07-28
    "I think davidson is a great school! it focus's on the well being of the students! The children have improved greatly since the beginning of the school year. I should know because I'm a student!"
    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2010-09-22
    "I was terribly disappointed in the behavior and focus of faculty at Davidson. The emphasis is clearly on bringing up the lower half of ESL students and allowing the top third to languish; why else would they cancel so much of their academic background and focus on "community involvement"? Our child had several good teachers in Math and Science, but the core teacher was more interested in popularity than improving academics. I am so happy we have the means to send our kids to private, even if you have to dig down- I would strongly avoid Davidson. When I complained to the school Dr. MacLean was incredibly condescending and hung up on me. I consider the whole year a waste of time."
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