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Alumni Spotlight on Rushil Kapadia

We were excited to catch up with Stratford San Jose Middle School alumnus, Rushil Kapadia. After graduating from Stratford, Rushil went on to Archbishop Mitty High School and is now immersed in his studies at University of California at Berkeley (aka Cal) where he is studying Electrical Engineering and Computer…
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2020-2021 Awards Wrap-Up: Hats Off to Stratford Students!

In spite of all of the difficulties of this past year, our students have persevered. Throughout this unimaginable year, Stratford students continued to work hard to expand their knowledge and create innovative and meaningful solutions to real world problems. We could not be more proud of their resilience and grit. …
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San Jose Middle School Students Create Kiva Microloan Club and Finance Loans to 554 Families Across 33 Countries

It all began three years ago in a Spanish class at Stratford San Jose Middle School, when 8th grade students in Ms. Sanchez’s class watched the documentary Living on One Dollar. In the film, four young friends attempt to live on less than one dollar a day in Guatemala, learning…
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Creating Our Own Secret Garden and Awakening the Seeds of Discovery

As the fifth graders at Stratford Mission Viejo’s campus followed a precocious young girl named Mary Lennox into a locked-away plot of land, while reading Frances Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” their teacher suddenly recalled a similar plot of overgrown earth, located near the back of their school grounds. Mentioning the…
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Celebrating 5 Years and 5th Grade! Stratford Altadena Opens 5th Grade in 2021/2022 with Middle School to Follow in 2022

The year 2021 marks Stratford Altadena campus’ five year anniversary and we are celebrating this milestone by adding 5th grade this fall!  When we first expanded the Stratford School experience to southern California, we started out small with fewer than 20 students in our preschool, prekindergarten, and kindergarten programs. Interest…
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