Discovery Charter Elementary/ Middle

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Discovery Charter School in Chula Vista enrolls 968 students across grades K-8 at its Camino Biscay campus under the Chula Vista Elementary School District. The STEAM-aligned curriculum produces a 62-percent math proficiency rate on state assessments, and families supplement classroom instruction with after-school enrichment at Mathnasium, which runs its own adaptive math program in the Chula Vista area. A Spanish-English Dual Language Immersion program runs alongside the general education track, both aligned to Common Core State Standards and taught by 40 full-time credentialed teachers at a 24-to-1 student-teacher ratio. The Fine Arts strand pairs visual art production with performance-based assessment across every grade level, complementing a community arts ecosystem where Inspire School of Ballet provides after-school dance training for Discovery families in the surrounding neighborhood. The STEAM lab deploys project-based units spanning robotics prototyping, environmental science field data collection, and 3-D design modeling, with the Dual Immersion cohort completing all STEAM projects bilingually through a 90/10 language allocation model that shifts to 50/50 by fifth grade.