Schools

GILROY—Gilroy schools spend $9,425 per year to educate a student, but in one case the figure is $134,160, more than 14 times the average.

GILROY—Two months after South Valley Middle School teacher Carmen Kotto was named CSN Bay Area 2015 All-Star Teacher, she and school officials know just how the $20,000 will be spent.

GIVING IT HIS ALL Kindergartener Jackson Deras gives it his all during St. Mary School’s 7th Annual Walk-a-Thon to raise funds for the Gilroy school. 

GILROY—About 300 students, faculty and staff members took part in the St. Mary School’s Seventh Annual Walk-a-Thon and raised $20,454.

 

GILROY—Gilroy’s nearly 12,000-student public school system has its first official, full-time spokesperson.

 

GILROY—Moved by a centenarian grandmother’s story and prompted to act by the deaths of high school seniors weeks before graduation, Gilroy school trustees have adopted a new policy to award honorary high school diplomas.

GILROY—Seven years after approving $150 million in bonds to fix aging schools, Gilroy voters would do it again, according to a new survey.