Vision Statement:
George Mayne Elementary School is a pre-kindergarten to fifth grade school of about 550 students.  Approximately a third of the students live in Alviso, a predominantly Hispanic village, once autonomous, but annexed to the City of San Jose.  Alviso was a prominent vacation village and shipping center in the early 1900's.  After its "heyday," Alviso became an isolated, low-income area.  Alviso has changed with the addition of more housing, a police center, and a new fire station. Numbers of Alviso families have lived in the village for several generations.  The primary language of Alviso is Spanish.  Consequently, Mayne is one of the few schools in the Bay Area which maintains a Spanish bilingual program from kindergarten through fifth grade.   

Mayne's other students arrive by school bus from six mobile home parks, which are located nearby in San Jose and Sunnyvale. The students who live in the mobile home parks bring more diversity to the school population.  Although Mayne School's attendance area borders the "high tech" district, with technology giant Cisco Corporation as a neighbor, the immediate area has limited services.  A small library/community center was opened in September 1999.  In 2002 the Alviso Youth Center, a gym/classroom/community center complex was built on the school campus, which is jointly operated by the Santa Clara Unified School District and the City of San Jose.  There are no grocery stores located close by.  

Information about the school, its programs, and its goals:
George Mayne School is a community of learners focused on the joy of learning, with an emphasis on literacy and mathematics.  Our partnerships with parents, businesses and the broader community help us to provide quality education a supportive, multi-lingual environment where each child's worth and potential is valued. Our Mayne Event is to provide a quality education for all students that will enable them to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. The school promotes the School District's goal to "prepare every student to succeed in an ever-changing world," by meeting State and District content and life-long learning standards.