Sausalito Marin City School District

Sausalito Marin City School District
Address
200 Phillips Drive Marin City, California 94965
Information
School type	Public, elementary school district
Motto	Building Tomorrow Today
School board	Mark Trotter (2006–10) Whitney S. Hoyt (2005–10) Shirley Thornton (1998–2010) Thomas Clark (2002–08) Elizabeth Todd-Gallardo (2006–08)
Superintendent	Debra Bradley
School number	NCES: 0636000 State: 2165474
Staff	44.0
Grades	K-8
Enrollment	263 (2004-05)
• Kindergarten	37
• Grade 1	33
• Grade 2	27
• Grade 3	23
• Grade 4	31
• Grade 5	32
• Grade 6	22
• Grade 7	33
• Grade 8	25
Language	English
Campus	Urban Fringe of Large City / 3
Area	Marin County, California
Communities served	Sausalito and Marin City
Website	Sausalito Marin City School District
Sausalito Marin City School District Information at the National Center for Education Statistics

Bayside/Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy
Address
200 Phillips Drive Marin City, California 94965
Information
School type	Public, elementary school-junior high school
Principal	Cherisse C. Baatin
Grades	K-8 (formerly 7–8)
Enrollment	51 (2004-05)
• Grade 7	26
• Grade 8	25
Language	English
Feeder schools	formerly: Bayside Elementary School
Website	Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy
Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy Information at the National Center for Education Statistics

Bayside Elementary School
Address
630 Nevada Street Sausalito, California 94965
Information
School type	Public, elementary school
Principal	Cherisse C. Baatin
Grades	K-6
Enrollment	106 (2004-05)
• Kindergarten	17
• Grade 1	15
• Grade 2	11
• Grade 3	10
• Grade 4	15
• Grade 5	22
• Grade 6	16
Language	English
Website	Bayside Elementary School
Bayside Elementary School Information at the National Center for Education Statistics

Sausalito Marin City School District (SMCSD) is a public school district serving Sausalito and the unincorporated area of Marin City in Marin County, California. The school's administrative offices currently are in the Bayside Elementary/Martin Luther King, Jr., Academy facility in Marin City. Previously the administrative offices were in Bayside Elementary School in Sausalito.

As of the 2004-05 school year, the District had 263 students at its three schools.

During much of the district's history, the demographics were evenly split between White students and African-American students. Most of the military families from nearby bases, who were mostly White, sent their children to Sausalito public schools. After the Cold War ended, the United States Department of Defense closed Fort Baker, Fort Berry, and the Presidio of San Francisco. Over 100 students left the school district in one period after the military transfers. By then, many families in Sausalito were sending children to private schools instead of public schools. By 1996 80% of the students were African American, and most of the district's students were poor. Despite the district's high student spending and small class sizes, test scores were low.

In 1997 the Marin County Civil Grand Jury published a report indicating that, despite the ample funding, the district had poor performance and violence.

In 2006 Jennifer Gollan and Don Speich of the Marin Independent Journal said "Poor academic achievement in the Sausalito Marin City School District has rendered the concept of public neighborhood schools largely meaningless as dozens of children in the district, both black and white, flock to private schools."

A 2008 followup to the county report indicated improvements and suggested that the Bayside and Martin Luther King schools be returned to K-8 configurations.

In 2011 Rob Rogers of the Marin Independent Journal said that the district continually had, of all of the Marin County school districts, the lowest test scores. That year the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education named Willow Creek Academy one of the top charter schools in California.

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