Burckhalter Elementary School

Home of the Bobcats!

Oakland, CA

We Are Serious About Your Child's Education!

Burckhalter Elementary conforms its curriculum and instruction to the standards established by the California State Department of Education. For more information about those standards, click here.

Using State standards as a starting point, educators at Burckhalter Elementary weave arts, history and cultural curriculum into the academic curriculum to provide comprehensive educational opportunities for our students.

Intensive and rotating arts and theater, physical education, tutoring and social development programs are offered in the school's after-school program. Click here to learn more about Burckhalter's after-school program.

“We believe in children … we believe in them by expecting a lot from all people and not just a little from a few. And we believe in them by not blaming parents, government or environment…But most of all, we believe in them by not believing we can begin to conceptualize the boundaries of their potential.”

Excerpt from Principal Leadership Institute: Prayer for Children, Maureen Benson, 2006

OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA 94607, via email at gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org, or via telephone 510-879-4281.