The Sausalito Marin City School District proudly serves students in the 94965 zip code of Sausalito and Marin City. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, located at 636 Nevada St. in Sausalito, serves students from TK through 8th grade. The district is home to a diverse student body, including students with IEPs in special education and newcomers.

 

Superintendent LaResha Huffman and Principal Amy Hale lead the district and school, ensuring a nurturing and inclusive educational environment for all students.

 

The district office is located at 200 Phillip Dr. in Marin City, where several departments work under Superintendent Huffman's leadership to continuously improve and support the success of the district.

 

The Board of Trustees desires to provide a safe school environment that allows all students equal access and opportunities in the district's academic, extracurricular, and other educational support programs, services, and activities. The Board prohibits, at any district school or school activity, unlawful discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, intimidation, and bullying, targeted at any student by anyone, based on the student's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

 

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY The Sausalito Marin City School District (SMCSD) is committed to ensuring equal, fair. and meaningful access to employment and education services. The SMCSD does not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these based actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws respectively. 

 

For questions or complaints, contact: Jocelin Guzman, 200 Phillips Dr. Marin City CA, 94965, (415) 332-3290, jguzman@smcsd.org.

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LaResha Huffman joined Sausalito Marin City as Superintendent in June, 2023. Prior to joining SMCSD LaResha worked at West Contra Costa Unified School District July 2021 to June 2023 as the Associate Superintendent/Chief Academic Officer for Educational Services. She also worked in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for over 16 years as a Network Superintendent, Deputy Network Superintendent, Director of Instruction, and Principal at Hoover Elementary in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). 

As a leader in some of the most diverse school districts in the country, LaResha Huffman continues to pursue a vision that combines excellent instruction, a deep investment in students’ social-emotional needs, principal professional growth and development, and improvements in the district's business operations. In these roles, she oversaw significant improvements in student achievement, principal growth and development, attendance and suspension rates, and overall leader satisfaction. Prior to the roles in OUSD and WCCUSD, she also served as Dean of Students at Aspire and taught both middle and high school in charter and Catholic schools.

LaResha was born in Hayward, CA and grew up in the Bay Area. She graduated from Cal State Hayward with a Degree in English with a Minor in African-American Literature. In addition to an advanced degree in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State, LaResha also holds a MA in Adult Education. She married with two daughters, one who is currently attending public school and another who graduated from public school in the Bay Area and is currently in college for nursing.