School administrators, parents launch rideshare program-NC TIMES

Participants hope effort will reduce congestion around San Elijo middle, elementary schools
ANDREA MOSS – NC TIMES
San Elijo Middle School administrators are taking aim at some of the traffic congestion around their campus with a new ride-sharing program that matches parents with each other for school-carpooling purposes.
Gary DeBora, assistant principal of the school, said last week [...]

Second Annual SEES Country Fair

Second Annual SEES Country Fair is this April 25th from 10 am to 4pm at San Elijo Elementary. This is a community event and all proceeds will go to support San Elijo Elementary school. The event will include itunes walk, games and prizes, silent and live auction. Food will be available from Islands, Smoothie [...]

SAN MARCOS: Trustees examine cuts : North County Times – Californian 03-05-2009

Board will vote on layoffs, other reductions Monday
By GARY WARTH – Staff Writer | Thursday, March 5, 2009
SAN MARCOS —- Class sizes may be increased, library hours shortened and athletics reduced in the school year that begins next fall to make ends meet in the San Marcos Unified School District.
Superintendent Kevin Holt outlined those and [...]

Second School Reports Chicken Pox Outbreak – KGTV San Diego

Second School Reports Chicken Pox Outbreak
POSTED: 7:53 pm PST February 27, 2009
SAN MARCOS, Calif. — A half-dozen elementary children at San Elijo Elementary School caught chicken pox, marking the second cluster of the disease discovered in a week in San Diego County, the Health and Human Services Department reported Friday.
The five fourth-graders and one third-grader [...]

Makeover for San Marcos school district detailed

Board will pare down $628 million project list
By Linda Lou UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER November 13, 2008
In an ideal world, the San Marcos Unified School District already would have the $628 million it would need to complete a long list of modernization projects.
That’s what district officials estimate it will cost, with inflation, to rebuild San Marcos [...]

San Marcos school board candidates seek to maintain high district standards

With only one of three board members seeking re-election as their terms end, the San Marcos Unified School District’s board of trustees is guaranteed to have a new look during the next four years.
But that does not necessarily mean the board will have a new direction. All four candidates in the race have good things [...]

New speed radar sign for San Elijo Middle School

HMS Construction Inc. will upgrade speed radar signs at Knob Hill Elementary, Woodland Park Middle School, Twin Oaks Elementary, San Marcos Elementary and San Elijo Middle School.

School district to vote on attendance boundaries

By Linda Lou
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 7, 2008
SAN MARCOS – At one point, the San Marcos Unified School District had considered building two elementary schools in San Elijo Hills, a large development in the southwest corner of the city.
But only one was built because the district couldn’t afford to buy land for a second one. The [...]

Some San Marcos parents oppose school boundary changes

By: NOELLE IBRAHIM – NCT Staff Writer
Trustees set to vote on alterations March 12 | Wednesday, March 5, 2008 11:02 PM PST

SAN MARCOS — A handful of parents at a meeting Wednesday spoke against portions of recommended revisions to the San Marcos Unified School District’s attendance boundaries for the next school year that would require [...]

San Marcos School District posts attendance-area remap proposals

District posts attendance-area remap proposals
By Linda Lou
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 21, 2008
SAN MARCOS – Maps of proposed plans for revising attendance boundaries in the San Marcos Unified School District for the upcoming school year are now available online.
School district officials have proposed two possible scenarios for revising the boundaries for most of the district’s elementary schools. [...]