Veteran principal Lloyd Webb is leaving Live Oak High School at the end of the school year after accepting a superintendent position with Durham Unified School District.
“I will miss this community, greatly,” Webb, 58, said. “There are so many amazing people, from teachers and support staff to parents and volunteers….But I will miss the students most of all. They have taught me invaluable lessons during my time here.”
A longtime resident of Morgan Hill, Webb began his Morgan Hill Unified School District career in 1995 as a teacher at LOHS. He then transitioned from teacher and varsity football coach to assistant principal and then principal.
“Throughout his tenure, Lloyd has been a trusted advisor to thousands of students in Morgan Hill while ushering the school community to tremendous success,” Superintendent Steve Betando said. “He will be missed, and we wish him the best of luck on this new journey.”
Webb, who grew up in Apple Valley in southern California’s high desert, said the promotion is “bittersweet” since the last 22 years of his adult life have been dedicated to Morgan Hill students. But he is looking forward to rural living in Durham, which is about seven miles south of Chico.
“It was the opportunity that opened up that drew me to that area,” said Webb, whose three children graduated from the same school in which he worked at LOHS. “To say I feel an attachment to Morgan Hill would be a classic understatement.”
Webb actually started a brief career as a police officer before turning to teaching chemistry and coaching football at Silver Creek High School in San Jose with his younger brother Glen Webb, a former Britton Middle School principal who is now MHUSD’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction.
The elder Webb then moved on to Moreno Valley, where he spent seven years as a teacher and coach before going to Ramona in the San Diego foothills.
“I had wanted to come to Live Oak because of all that Glen had told me about the place, but there were never any openings because nobody left.”
When he finally landed a teaching/coaching gig at LOHS, Webb called it the “luckiest, best move I’ve ever made in my life, bar none.”
Webb remained a teacher and offensive line coach at Live Oak until he took an assistant principal job at Ann Sobrato High School, where he spent three years at the post.
“It was a great school. All schools have by and large same strengths and same struggles,” Webb said. “In a lot of ways the differences between Live Oak and Sobrato can be found in school colors and not anywhere else.”
Webb returned to Live Oak as principal for the 2010-11 school year, where he remained until announcing his retirement at the end of the current term.
“I’m really going to miss this staff,” Webb said. “When this opportunity opened up, I decided to look into it because of the community and then I got to know a little more about the district. It was very enticing.”
The district is looking to attract Webb’s replacement at Live Oak with a job posting on the educator job recruiting site, edjoin.org. The salary range is between $129,304 and $147,558.
