Pete Ortega to Take Helm of Adult School

Pete Ortega, a longtime Ventura County educator, has been tapped to head the Oxnard Adult School, which serves more than 15,000 students a year.

Before assuming the principal’s post, the Ventura resident had worked as the adult school’s assistant principal since 1986.

Bill Studt, superintendent of the Oxnard Union High School District, said the district was fortunate to fill the slot with an educator who knows the school system.

“Pete Ortega knows the communities we serve and has the experience and the expertise to continue to shape programs and to provide the services that will best serve them,” Studt said in a statement.

Ortega, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Adams State College in Colorado, has worked at Camarillo High School as an assistant principal and taught math at Channel Islands and Oxnard high schools.