San Juan High School, a low-income, ethnically diverse school struggling to boost student achievement in California’s San Juan Unified School District, demonstrated consistent gains in its School Climate Index (SCI) over the three years of the California Safe and Supportive Schools Program implementation. This case study reflects on the programs and strategies that the school implemented and draws upon data collected as part of the program’s evaluation. Some of the key strategies discussed are:

• Stakeholder engagement and student voice
• Social-emotional learning
• Freshman mentoring
• Restorative justice
• Project-Based Learning
• Intervention efforts