Schools

“Ramon, you did it!” declared one sign amidst a sea of colorful Mylar balloons, bouquets and shade-giving umbrellas during Live Oak High School’s June 6 graduation ceremony, where cap and gown-clad seniors strode onto Richert Field as the traditional graduation song, “Pomp and Circumstance” played in the background.

When something saddens 10-year-old Monique Ourricariet, the Paradise Valley Elementary School student gets inspired.

Fourteen students made up the graduating Class of 2013 for the Silicon Valley Flex Academy in Morgan Hill, which held its ceremony June 3.

Sitting in the bleachers on the visitor’s side of the Ann Sobrato High School football field surrounded by fellow classmates waiting to hear their name called during Thursday’s graduation ceremony, Senior Class Officer Michael Altamirano could not feel more at home.

Each month, the principals of Live Oak and Sobrato high schools choose a "Student of the Week" (two from each high school per month). Live Oak senior Guadalupe Munoz, 18, is this week's Student of the Week. She's also our last Student of the Week for the 2012-13 school year.

The Morgan Hill Unified School District is still deciding whether to accept Navigator Schools’ petition to open a new charter school in the city for 2014-15, and has instead requested a 30-day extension of the mandatory June 15 deadline to vote.

Topics ranging from technology enhancements, to more after school enrichment programs to class-size reductions were brought to attention by local parents during the May 29 community input meetings held at 10 different school sites in Morgan Hill.

An estimated 170-foot, green caterpillar was recently spotted on the front office building at San Martin Gwinn Elementary School in San Martin.

More than 150 community members attended the first annual Jackson Academy of Math and Music dinner, silent auction and raffle, held April 26 at Guglielmo Winery in Morgan Hill.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education unanimously approved more than $5 million in construction costs at its May 29 meeting for the nearly $7 million modernization project at the old Burnett Elementary School site on Tilton Avenue in northwest Morgan Hill.