CAMARILLO : Trustees OK Study of Unified Districts
Pleasant Valley School District trustees have decided to spend $8,000 to study unifying elementary school districts in Oxnard and Camarillo with the Oxnard Union High School District.
This will be the first time in Pleasant Valley’s history that the board has commissioned such a study, said Associate Supt. Howard Hamilton.
Now, seven elementary school districts in the area--Pleasant Valley, Rio, Mesa Union, Ocean View, Oxnard, Hueneme and Somis Union--feed into the six-school Oxnard Union High School District. Together, the feeder districts include 42 elementary schools, 10 intermediate schools, one alternative school and one school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students.
Board President Leonard Caligiuri said Friday that the district had been asked by a number of Camarillo residents to study the issue, but the trustees’ unification committee had gone as far as it could without outside help.
Caligiuri said that so far, only the Oxnard school district has agreed to join in the study, and thus share the cost.
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