About Us

Palm Avenue Elementary is a Fine Arts Magnet School. In addition to the academic subjects, Palm Avenue students study the visual arts, choral and instrumental music, dance, and theatre. Students learn the arts from their teachers and from professional, practicing artists in the school’s Artist-in-Residence program. At Palm Avenue Elementary, the arts enrich the academic program and add to students’ self-confidence, self-esteem, good behavior, and high test scores. The school has received the California School Boards Association’s Golden Bell Award, the District’s Schools of Achievement Award, and others. Palm has received the California Distinguished School Award in 2010 and has received the Title I Academic Achievement Award in 2010 and 2011. Also, Palm has a guitar club and chess club as well as offering a sports program with soccer, flag football, basketball, and softball.