About

The Joe Serna, Jr. Charter School (JSJCS) is located at 4620 Acampo Road in Acampo, California.

This is the start of the sixth year at this new location. Joe Serna School was opened in the Fall of 2000 with 180 K-5 students and was named after the late mayor of Sacramento and former Lodi resident, Joe Serna, Jr. The students, staff, and families of the school participated in the naming process during the Spring of 2001. JSJCS currently has 357 K-8 students during the 2022-23 school year. The school operates on a modified traditional calendar of 180 school days. The campus currently includes 20 classrooms, school office, cafeteria, library and playground. There are 16 classroom teachers, 1 RSP teacher, 1 PE teacher, 1 part-time school counselor, 1 part-time school psychologist, 1 part-time Speech and Language Pathologist, three part-time music teachers, and 21 classified personnel. Students also participate one time a week in dance and art; they alternate between the two classes every 10 weeks during the year. There are a total of five minimum days for parent conferences in the fall and students have one minimum day each week for teacher planning and staff development.

The student population at Serna Charter School is dominated by two main ethnic groups: Hispanic and Anglo with a small student population of Asian and African American students. Over fifty percent of the students at Serna were Limited English Proficient (LEP) and the free and reduced lunch percentage is 69.9. Serna Charter School qualified for Title I targeted intervention money for the first time during the 2000-2001 school year but did not receive funding until the 2002-2003 school year. The school no longer receives targeted intervention money.