Sausalito Marin City School District

The Sausalito Marin City School District is working together with Willow Creek Academy, a public charter school, to combine Willow Creek and the district's Bayside MLK, Jr. Academy into a single, unified school. The goal of the process is to create a world-class school with top-tier academics that serves all students within the district's enrollment boundaries and overcomes the educational challenges in our community.

November 9, 2020
A joint committee consisting of the boards of the Sausalito Marin City School District and Willow Creek Academy is working on an implementation plan for opening a unified school in fall of 2021. The draft that is being developed calls for one school with two campuses: K-5 in Sausalito and TK/6-8 in Marin City. At the joint meeting on October 21, the committee built consensus around a projected staffing model, pending a more detailed budget analysis. At the committee meeting on November 9 the boards again focused on staffing and budget. Additional work will be required to reach a final consensus, at which point the committee will pass a joint resolution approving the plan. Design teams from each school will then take over the work. The design teams will bring a detailed plan forward, and both organizations will then sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) commemorating next steps, hopefully in January.

The current projected date for the opening of the unified school is August 2021 for the 2021-22 school year. More upcoming steps in the unification process may be found on the Timeline page.

• Timeline features past milestones and projected dates for next steps in the unification process
• Frequently Asked Questions provides answers to common questions about school unification
• Data and Statistics collects information about schools, students, residents, and funding in the district
• Video Archives of public meetings and forums related to school unification are availabe in this section
• Document Archives is a comprehensive collection of reports, legal filings, press releases, surveys, and other documents
• In the News contains links to articles about district unification and desegregation that have appeared in local, state, and national media