Schools

Britton Middle School eighth grader Ben Hayes was looking for a good reason to get dirty and play down by the creek. So when it was time to decide on his science project for Britton’s annual competition, he knew exactly what to do. “I wanted...

Students, teachers and staff at local schools returned from winter break to an “all time high” number of weekly reported Covid-19 cases, according to Morgan Hill Unified School District staff. For the week of Jan. 3-9, a total of 177 students and 24 staff members...

Voices College-Bound Language Academies recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site of its new Morgan Hill campus, located at the intersection of Monterey Road and Cosmo Avenue.  The new Voices Morgan Hill building will be the charter school network’s first private campus. The...

By Juan Reyes Gavilan College announced that it will move forward with its commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020 but the celebration won’t take place until the end of the year. Jan Bernstein Chargin, director of public information at Gavilan, issued a press release on...

Oakwood senior Nikhita Gopisetty was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 5 years old. It was for that reason the now 17-year-old wanted to delve into the causes of the disease for her science project entry in the 2019 South Valley Science and...

School district officials and board of education trustees were on hand May 13 as the latest in pre-fabricated modular classrooms were installed at San Martin Gwinn Environmental Science 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...

Students from seven local schools competed Feb. 9 in a Coyote Valley MATHCOUNTS chapter competition at Oakwood School, with 10 of them qualifying for the regionals at Stanford later this year. Eighth-grader Ethan Fang from Martin Murphy Middle School came in first place in the...

A beloved Martin Murphy Middle School teacher was involved in a fatal single-car accident while on her way to work early morning Jan. 20, according to a press release from Morgan Hill Unified School District.