Superintendent

The health and welfare of our students and employees are one of our district’s top priorities. In the aftermath of the recent storm, I believe the worst has passed for now. I am happy to say that we have weathered the elements and am excited to welcome students and staff back and resume classroom instruction on January 6, 2023! Our facilities team and school leaders have monitored our campuses to identify any impacts associated with the storm and are working to mitigate them.

According to the National Weather Service, a major storm is expected to hit the San Francisco Bay Area at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, January 4. Since the health and safety of our community is a top priority, SSFUSD will be canceling all after school athletic and extracurricular programs on Wednesday, January 4, and we are highly encouraging all parents to pick your children up as close to dismissal time as possible.

I wanted to take a moment to recognize our community for your commitment, engagement, and on-going support. I am in awe for the ways our community is present, engaged, supportive, communicative and collaborative. We cannot experience educational success for our students without your strong partnership and presence, and I remain deeply grateful to work in this amazing community.

We are almost through the first month of the 2022-23 school year, and I want to take this opportunity to thank you for contributing to a successful start. Our students successfully returned to the classroom, and they are learning new routines and expectations for the year ahead.

“Let your light shine,” said South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD) Superintendent Dr. Shawnterra Moore during her annual welcome back address to the district’s teachers and employees on August 8.

Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! I hope you all had a chance to rest and rejuvenate yourselves over the summer. We are enthusiastically anticipating your student(s) return for this upcoming year. As we begin the new year, we want to make you aware of some new changes as well as several projects that we will be kicking off this year!

It is hard to believe that we have made it through another eventful and stressful year, but we have. As we bring the 2021-22 school year to a close, I want to reflect back on the many ways in which we have proactively responded and pivoted to different health and safety requirements throughout the year.

It has been about two weeks since we returned from spring break, and I hope that you all had a chance to rest and refuel and we look toward finishing strong in the last six weeks of the school year. As you may recall, our school board decided during its March 10 meeting to leave our district’s indoor masking policy in place until at least April 18, so that we could assess public health conditions and our community’s COVID-19 case rates in the wake of spring break.

Spring is here! We are so thankful to our staff, students, and parents for following our safety guidelines to reduce the spread of COVID-19. With the extra hour of daylight, we hope you enjoy time with your family.

I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday filled with love and happiness! I wanted to inform you that today, February 16, the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) statewide indoor mask mandate will expire.