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What a difference a day makes! A space at Rivera Elementary School that was vacant on Wednesday is now home to a 1440 square foot preschool. The facility arrived in three large sections on trucks from Stockton Thursday morning. Site work to prepare for the delivery began early last week, and crews spent the day carefully positioning the preschool on the property. The building was designed with student safety as the top priority, including the strategic placement of windows and doors. It will serve approximately 20 children in the morning and 2...
More than 15-hundred students are getting an educational boost through the Merced City School District’s Summer Academy for Academic Achievement. The voluntary program started Monday, June 13th and will continue through July 8th. The Summer Academy provides an opportunity for students to extend their learning in science, technology, engineering, the arts, mathematics, and language arts. It includes fun hands-on projects and technology-based learning as well. One unique element of the Summer Academy is the thematic engineering lessons that are specific to each grade level.&n...
Reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English are critical components of any child’s education in the United States, but many students come into the Merced City School District with a primary language other than English. That is why the district has specific programs in place to help those students become proficient. Data for the 2015-2016 school year indicates those programs are making an impact. District statistics show 494 students who began as English learner students were reclassified as proficient in English by the end of the year. The steps for reclass...
Several construction and modernization projects are ramping up at campuses throughout the Merced City School District now that the school year has come to an end. These improvement projects are largely funded through Measure M, which voters approved in 2014. At Chenoweth Elementary, crews are building a new parking lot off Teak Avenue to improve access and safety during drop off and pick up times. The work will also include two new basketball courts for school and community use, new playground equipment, new water efficient landscape and irrigation, plus security gates and fencin...
Nearly 12 hundred Merced City School District students graduated from 8th grade on June 1, 2016, and many had to overcome challenges to reach that milestone. That includes two students who faced an especially fierce foe – cancer. One of those remarkable students is 13 year old Mina Lopez, who attended Hoover Middle School. Mina started feeling ill in February of 2015 and sought medical care, but her condition went undiagnosed until she visited Valley Children’s Hospital in July. By that time, she was extremely sick with what turned out to be leukemia. ...