News and Announcements

The following message from ESUSD Superintendent Melissa Moore was emailed to ESUSD families and employees on May 10, 2022.

El Segundo High School has earned impressive marks in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best High Schools rankings. El Segundo High School ranks in the top 2 percent of public high schools in the nation, and the top 3 percent of public high schools in the state of California, according to the report released in April 2022.

The California Department of Education (CDE) recently recognized the El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD) with a 2022 Pivotal Practice Award which celebrates schools and districts that implemented an innovative practice during the 2020–21 school year, when California required schools to offer distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD) Board of Education meeting on April 12, 2022, the Board appointed Steve Gebhart as the new principal of El Segundo High School. His appointment is effective July 1, 2022.

The El Segundo Unified School District held a ribbon cutting ceremony on April 18, 2022, for Center Street School’s redesigned front driveway that now provides a safe and welcoming entrance for students, families, employees, and visitors.

El Segundo PTAs will host the annual Honorary Service Awards celebration on May 10, 2022, in the ESHS Performing Arts Center, to recognize honorees from 2020-2022.

The following message from ESUSD Superintendent Melissa Moore was emailed to ESUSD families and employees on April 21, 2022.

Richmond Street School science teacher Dr. Phuong Uzoff was recently honored as one of six finalists in California for the President’s Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching—the nation’s highest honor for educators of these subjects.

On March 23, 2022, El Segundo City Hall welcomed 40 ESHS seniors to learn what it takes to run a city, and to launch the students’ group project about making Recreation Park the best space it can be for the community.

ESUSD offers residents of El Segundo the opportunity to choose which elementary school they would like their grades TK-5 children to attend, based on space availability. No action required if you wish to continue with your home school.