The Freshwater Elementary School District has two schools located about 5 miles northeast of
Eureka, California
Eureka (Wiyot: ''Jaroujiji'', Hupa: ''do'-wi-lotl-ding'', Karuk: ''uuth'') is the principal city and county seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt ...
, in unincorporated
Freshwater
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. The district oversees public education through grade 8, in a portion of west central
Humboldt County, California
Humboldt County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,463. The county seat is Eureka.
Humboldt County comprises the Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna, California Micropolitan Statistica ...
.
[Humboldt County Office of Education]
see map Generally the area served includes students who live, in addition to portions of Freshwater and
Kneeland, in all of the unincorporated community of
Indianola, and unincorporated neighborhoods between these and the northeast limit of the City of Eureka.
The district operates Freshwater Elementary School, a K-6 public school, and Freshwater Charter Middle School for seventh and eighth graders, both of which are on the same site.
The original school was a
one-room schoolhouse
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[Freshwater School]
/ref> dating from the late 19th-century. In the 1920s, a two-room all wood construction school was built.[Freshwater School Board]
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*Dan Diemer
*Susie Seely
*Bridgette Mitchell
*Cynthia Gosling
*Greg Hall
The superintendent/principal is Sinon Talty, with a part-time vice-principal, Suzanne Nickols. These administrators oversee both schools on the site.
Freshwater Elementary School
The primary operation and largest school operated by the district is a rural K-6 public school located 5 miles northeast of Eureka, California
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. The school setting is on a large parcel among redwood trees and includes expansive areas for recreation and appreciation for nature of the California
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. There are 19 teachers and 31 staff which support the education of 271 students. The district modernized 10 classrooms in 2003 and recently finished building two new classrooms, a band room and a large community gym to augment a smaller multi-purpose building and gym that has existed since the most recent school was built on the site in 1952.[http://internet.humboldt.k12.ca.us/freshwater_sd/index.php Freshwater School Website]
Freshwater Charter Middle School
The district developed and operates a charter school for seventh and eighth graders on the same site as the Elementary school. Four staff in the district are solely responsible for educating students in this setting, which prepares students to advance to high school.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.freshwatersd.org/
School districts in Humboldt County, California