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About Edward Gonzales Elementary

Why Families Choose Edward Gonzales

Our school provides rigorous, scaffolded instruction that focuses on both academic and social emotional learning.

  • A Community School
  • We are an AVID elementary school, which means we are focused on college and career readiness beginning in third grade.
  • We are a dual language school, providing bilingual instruction to send students on the path to receiving their bilingual seal in high school.
  • We are only third through fifth grade, which allows to focus on those years, providing targeted academic and social emotional instruction based on our students' shared development.
  • Social emotional learning and restorative practices is at the core of all we do.

Programs at Edward Gonzales

  • Arts/Fine Arts
  • AVID
  • Bilingual/Dual Language
  • STEM/STEAM
  • Student council
  • Genius hour

Guided Tours

Prospective families who would like to arrange a guided tour are welcome to contact Lauren Arellano, our Community School Impact Coordinator.  Her email is lauren.arellano@aps.edu.

Four young girls in blue STEM Center t-shirts stand together in the foreground against a background featuring a colorful mural and a sign with an alien face.
A group of students wearing yellow numbered bibs stand in a sunny school courtyard with trees and buildings under a clear blue sky.
Two young girls in blue STEM shirts build with colorful blocks in the foreground, while other students and a teacher are visible in a blue-walled classroom in the background.