Castro Valley Schools Get Summer Makeovers
When Castro Valley Unified School District students head back to school on August 9, they will be greeted by school improvements as well as by some teachers who went to school over the summer themselves, according to Superintendent Parvin Ahmadi.
Improvements still being funded by Measure G, passed in 2016, led the list. Portable classrooms were replaced with permanent ones, interiors of schools were renovated, and students will see some new restrooms.
The general public, though, is most likely to see the renovated and expanded athletic fields at Creekside Middle School. The upper field will likely be finished in August; the lower field in September. The concrete walkway between the two is already finished.
At Marshall Elementary School, two older portable classrooms, Rooms 23 and 24, were demolished to make room for new interim portables placed on permanent foundations.
At Proctor Elementary School, classroom portables P1 to P5 were moved to new permanent foundations along Proctor Road on the lower campus.
Vannoy Elementary School students and staff will see painted and renovated classrooms with new flooring and ceilings, and safety window film.
Canyon Middle School is progressing through Phase 3 of its modernization, with the F wing Building finished and the D Wing building almost so. They have been painted along with new HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems and new flooring installed.
Canyon’s library got new flooring as well. The boys’ and girls’ restrooms have been renovated. New lockers are coming. The gymnasium is getting a new boiler system and a new roof.
Administrative Building E Wing renovations are underway at Canyon with expected completion in December.
At Castro Valley High School, students will get new all-gender restrooms with floor-to-ceiling privacy stalls, each with separate lighting and a fire alarm sensor. There will also be new plumbing fixtures, ceramic wall tiles, and epoxy flooring.
The high school’s Building 300 is getting new paint, HVAC upgrades, new roofing, new flooring, and safety window film.
Many teachers worked together to plan and create curricula or learn new teaching methods over the summer.
Vannoy Elementary School will begin its long-awaited Spanish-English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program this fall, and the program’s teachers got 12 days of special training ahead of time, with the help of Santa Clara University.
“We look forward to greeting our students on August 9th as they begin their new learning journey,” Ahmadi wrote in a letter to district families.