Schools

Ann Sobrato High School’s Class of 2019 will receive their diplomas at 2pm June 7, while Live Oak High School’s graduates will make the walk at 6pm later that same day. Both high school commencement ceremonies will take place on their respective campuses. Sobrato is...

Voices College-Bound Language Academies—which has a Morgan Hill school authorized through the Santa Clara County Office of Education—will open two new schools in 2020 and 2021. By a 7-0 vote, the Stockton Unified School District’s Board of Trustees approved the two schools: Voices Stockton and...

Live Oak High School and South County Cal-SOAP honored all senior students who are headed to college in the fall with its annual College Signing Day. Seniors and their parents were invited to the Live Oak HS campus May 1 to honor their accomplishments. “At...

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...

Martin Murphy Middle School’s Advanced Band bested the field at the May 3 Music in the Parks Festival in Anaheim, taking first place overall and within their division. Thirty-five seventh and eighth grade student musicians participated in the competition. It was the first victory at...

Ann Sobrato High School teacher Jeanie Wallace was named the 2019 Morgan Hill Federation Teacher of the Year and honored by the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education May 7. Wallace and 13 of her colleagues were chosen as Teachers of the Year...

A new six-year demographic study presented to the school board earlier this month projects a slight gain in enrollment for Morgan Hill Unified School District for the first time in a decade. While it is not earth-shattering news for Morgan Hill’s public school system, which...

A trio of South County schools—two in Gilroy and one in Morgan Hill—were named among the top schools in the Bay Area for lowering the achievement gap, according to the fourth annual research report issued by non-profit Innovate Public Schools. Voices College Bound Language Academy...

A San Martin assistant principal will head to another Morgan Hill Unified School District campus next year, with the promotion of Shannon Rafat to principal at PA Walsh STEAM Academy, according to a recent staff announcement. Rafat, an interim assistant principal at San Martin/Gwinn Environmental...

College students may soon be allowed to sleep in their vehicles overnight on campuses across the state, if a new bill being reviewed by the State Assembly becomes a law. The parking proposal measure—proposed by a Palo Alto assembly member to help address a component...