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Nueva currently serves 960 gifted learners in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade with approximately 220 faculty, staff, and administrators. In fall 2013, Nueva welcomed its first class of ninth-grade students to classrooms at the College of San Mateo while it expanded into a high school designed to prepare students for life in the 21st century.
The Nueva School, Hillsborough, California. 1,538 likes · 94 talking about this · 1,275 were here. A nationally recognized preK–12 independent school serving gifted learners. Home of the Mavericks.
PreK–12 Curriculum. At Nueva, learning is authentic, complex, and intellectually rigorous. Students do real work as authors, artists, inventors, explorers, athletes, and mathematicians. Giving students choice, autonomy, and high expectations for growth, we harness intrinsic motivation as the engine for academic excellence.
Nueva’s 50-year history of social-emotional learning (SEL) and commitment to developing students’ social and emotional acuity play an essential role in the learning atmosphere of trust, community, and inclusion at the Upper School. Nueva’s environment of caring and layered system of support ensures each student feels truly seen, heard ...
The Nueva Way —Nueva’s constructivist, project-based approach — engages Middle School students with authentic, real-world, and interesting problems to solve. Teachers collaborate extensively across subject areas to deliver rigorous intellectual challenges that students crave. As the semester unfolds, Nueva faculty are always adding or ...
Families from the Central Peninsula represent 40 percent of the Nueva community. About 16 percent of our families live in the San Francisco area, and 30 percent commute from the Southern Peninsula. Nueva offers several bus routes from San Francisco and the Southern Peninsula. Upper school students are provided Caltrain passes as part of their ...
Our Commitment to Affordability. The Bay Area's high cost of living makes tuition a stretch for many Nueva families. We offer 100% financial assistance grants to households earning less than $150,000 annually with assets typical of that income level. All elements of a full Nueva education–transportation, lunch, trips, enrichment activities, and after-school services, plus any scho
