Superintendent's Message

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Summer break has wound down and final plans for the start of the 2024-25 school year are being put into place. We are very excited about what is to come for our students and staff and we look forward to another successful school year. We project our student population to reach 8,000 students sometime during the school year; Mountain House High School is expecting to house close to 2450 students alone in its tenth year of existence. To accommodate this growth, we broke ground on the new classroom addition at Mountain House High School. By August of 2025, our highs school students will be able to utilize these new classrooms, which include two additional laboratories- one for biology and one for chemistry. We want to welcome our new site administrators to our leadership team: Cassandra Skelton and Justin Nunn, vice principals at Mountain House High School. Our district leadership team is strong and the new members will contribute greatly to the district’s culture of achievement.

The Board of Trustees wanted to reach out to the Lammersville Unified education community to express their deepest gratitude for the supportive commitment to education we have experienced over the years. With your support, we continue to provide students a high quality educational experience and exceptional opportunities in extracurricular activities, be that academic, athletic, or VAPA. We will continue to strive to build upon the established programs and will endeavor to find new and exciting ways to inspire our students and highly trained staff.

We are proud of the foundational program available to our students. This includes our progress building and implementing initiatives that are designed to fit within the three district goals: 1) Systematic Closure of Student Opportunity Gaps 2) Instruction and Curriculum Efficacy 3) 21st Century Outcomes and Stakeholder Communication. In the 2024-25 school year, there will be three focus areas that fall within each goal districtwide. Goal 1: We will continue to strengthen the District’s Professional Learning Communities (PLC) by modernizing its practices through the Impact Teams model; Goal 2: We will re-emphasize the best practices in “good first time teaching” based on our award winning professional development programs, in particular Walking and Talking Instruction. Goal 3: We will implement programs and strategies that best meet the needs of students who are not at standard and give each individual the best opportunity to improve their individual skill sets.

Lammersville Unified School District offers its students many award winning programs ranging from the Early College Pathway Program to Project Lead the Way; Science Olympiad to Mock Trial; Speech and Debate to HOSA (Health Occupations Students of American); Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) to Athletics.  There are currently over 100 active clubs at Mountain House High School and well-rounded elective opportunities at each of our K-8 schools. In 2024-25 our multi-year effort to expand student access to music will continue as we expand the strings program at the middle school aged level.

We anticipate another year of positive results based on last year’s state assessments as unofficial early data show that our status as the highest achieving school district in the County continues. In our region, Lammersville Unified School District sits at nearly the same level as the historically high achieving East Bay districts of Pleasanton, Dublin and San Ramon.

Dr. Kirk Nicholas

Superintendent