Schools

There is no incumbent in the Nov. 8 election for the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 3 representative.  The Trustee Area’s current trustee, Heather Orosco, is not running for re-election after serving one term. She was elected to the board...

Students and staff throughout Morgan Hill Unified School District are getting ready to return to school April 12, but some parents are concerned the new in-person classroom schedules don't give all students equal time on campus. Most of the district’s 8,500 or so students have...

When 21-year-old Gavilan College student Brandon Puthoff learned about the new drone program being offered at the Coyote Valley campus north of Morgan Hill, he jumped on the opportunity right away and signed up for several classes in the six-course certificate program. “I’m hoping to...

Shortly after announcing his retirement from Morgan Hill Unified School District, Assistant Supt. of Educational Services Ramon Zavala was selected as the 2019 Administrator of the Year by the California Association of Bilingual Education. Each year, CABE honors “one exemplary administrator who has made contributions...

Central High School, the district’s continuation school, graduated 33 seniors at a June 3 ceremony on the school’s campus on Tilton Avenue. Central High’s Student Speaker for the ceremony, Michael Fuentez, described the challenges he—like many of his classmates—faced throughout his first three years of...

Brown named to dean’s list Gage Brown, of Morgan Hill, has been named to the fall 2023 dean's list at Buffalo State University. In general, students who have completed at least 12 credit hours and who have attained a term GPA of 3.5 or higher...

As an intern with the Metropolitan Public Defender for the last year, Live Oak High School alumna Jenna Richards’ passion for practicing law continued to grow. “It just reaffirmed my passion to go into law,” said the 22-year-old Richards. “For a lot of people that...

More than 8,000 local students last week returned to school at Morgan Hill Unified School District’s 13 campuses.

Live Oak High School’s graduating class of 2021 celebrated with two commencement ceremonies the afternoon of June 4. A total of 298 seniors graduated from Live Oak this year, according to Principal Tanya Calabretta. Graduates in the coming months will attend universities, four-year colleges, community...

After only two years at the helm, Live Oak High School principal Maria Reitano notified staff earlier this week that she will not return for the 2019-2020 school term. “My time has been rich and rewarding, and it will be hard to leave this amazing...