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Fewer students could lead to changes at high schools
A new report says declining enrollments at local elementary and middle schools may mean changes are coming to Los Gatos and Saratoga high schools.
The 2021-22 Demographics & Enrollment Projections Report by the consulting firm SchoolWorks was discussed by the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School...
Student performance remains steady during pandemic, principals report
Local high schools are starting to get a sense of just how far students are falling behind due to Covid-19.
And unlike other districts in the region, for the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, the answer appears to be—not much.
After the first grading period,...
New schools tax squeaks past threshold
Voters in the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District narrowly approved the district’s first parcel tax in more than a dozen years by a narrow eight-vote margin, according to the election offices in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties.
Measure A will add a $79...
County Board of Education welcomes new trustees
On Dec. 18, the Santa Clara County Board of Education welcomed two new trustees and elected its 2025 president and vice president. Trustee Maimona Afzal Berta, elected to the board in 2022, was named president for a second time, and Trustee Victoria Chon was...
How peer pressure and parents can influence college selection decisions
As a Bay Area high school student, the pressure to get ready to apply for college bothered me since my freshmen year. I picked extracurriculars with admissions officers in my mind, tailored my course load to my prospective major and spent hours ruminating over...
Mother and daughter say Grad Night bash will be epic
The mulberry tree on the lawn in front of Los Gatos High School is a reminder to Judy Peckler, 78, about the importance of the annual dry post-graduation party.
The tree is dedicated to her only son, her husband and her youngest daughter, who were...
Supervisor tours Los Gatos’ transitional kindergarten ‘hub’
Transitional kindergarten teacher Kajsa Byrne had the children in her Lexington Elementary class gathered around a circular table, engrossed in a literacy assignment.
They scarcely noticed some of the region’s most powerful educational figures enter the room.
Michael Stock, a science, technology, engineering, art and math...
3 weeks to fix signatures in high school district election
In the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District special mail ballot election, held May 7, voters have until Tuesday, June 4, to correct issues with their ballot envelope signatures.
According the the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, they still have 35 remaining ballots with...
Los Gatos schools settle one sex abuse case, face trial in another
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District has agreed to pay a former student athlete $3.485 million for sexual abuse that she said she endured for more than three years, in a settlement announced this week.
Beginning in 1999, the plaintiff in the case,...
LGHS taps assistant principal for top job
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced last week that Dave Poetzinger will be the new principal of Los Gatos High School. After a comprehensive search process—conducted by an interview team made up of teachers, support staff, parents, students, and administrators—the Board of...
