Altimira Middle School is one of two middle schools serving the Sonoma Valley school…More district. Its grounds include an outdoor eating area, open fields, trees and benches.</p> <p>Altimira Middle School offers a comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) program. Its student body includes 60 percent Hispanic students, and more than half of Altimira Middle School's students qualify as "socioeconomically disadvantaged." The school offers extensive tutoring and homework help, an honors leadership program, AP and enrichment courses and a variety of programs for students with special needs.</p> <p> </p>

Woodland Star Charter School is a public charter-school that educates using Waldorf methods. It serves students in…More Kindergarten through eighth grade, with a half day "play-based" Kindergarten class. The school emphasizes sustainable study, and a school garden is incorperated into curriculum. Older grades are taught lessons in immersive blocks of several months, where the students approach a subjects such as math or social studies from multiple angles. It is located on Arnold Drive, just off of the Altimira campus.</p> <p>Grade by Grade curriculum can be viewed on the <a href="http://www.woodlandstarschool.org/content/view/56/137/">Web site</a>.</p>

Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley is a non-profit organization funded entirely by grants, private donations and…More local businesses. Serving over 500 children daily at five locations, this club provides the youth of Sonoma with an after school program that focuses on skill building, education, and working as a team. Children also gain other skills such as arts, computer science and athletics. In addition to the Maxwell Clubhouse, the Boys & Girls Club serves children afterschool at Altimira Middle School, Sassarini Elementary, Dunbar Elementary and Flowery Elementary Schools. </p> <p>Its main clubhouse is located in Maxwell Farms Regional Park. The 22,000 sq foot building has a full sized gym, Intel Computer Clubhouse, art room, garden, music recording studio, kitchen and a large game room. The Boys & Girls Club is open to all children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years old. </p>