20 YEARS OF LA SCUOLA

In October of 2002, La Piccola Scuola Italiana was started by two Italian-American families who wanted to ensure that they and their children would stay connected to their Italian heritage, culture, and language. Under the leadership of Valentina Imbeni, who had joined the school as a founding parent, the school quickly grew, and over the years La Scuola has been inspiring brave learners from inside a family home, a church, and our Fell Street campus, to the current Dogpatch, Mission, and Silicon Valley campuses.

Fast forward 20 years from our humble beginnings, we have grown into a truly international, multicultural, and multilingual school. We value our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and aspire to celebrate each of our 350+ students with their own cultural heritage and language.

We give thanks and appreciation to our founding families, past and present trustees, faculty, educators, parents, volunteers, supporters, the Italian American Community, the Italian Consulate of San Francisco, generous donors, and the entire La Scuola community for their continued support and accompanying us on this 20-year journey.

What’s next for La Scuola?

We have exciting plans! We continue to grow with the forthcoming construction of the new main building at the K-8 Mission Campus, the renovation of the San Carlos gym building, and the Early Childhood Dogpatch Campus expansion.

Our Silicon Valley campus is also growing with each passing year as we build awareness, and as our student body and grade levels expand.