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El Monte City School District superintendent details midyear gains, grants and a projected $20.9 million shortfall
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Maribel Garcia told the El Monte City School District board the district is five months into a five-year strategic plan, reporting early math and literacy gains, new grants including a $6 million Cal Fire award, and a projected 2025–26 general-fund deficit of about $20.9 million tied to enrollment decline and expiring pandemic funds.
Dr. Maribel Garcia, superintendent of the El Monte City School District, delivered a midyear strategic-plan update that highlighted early instructional gains, recent grants and a projected structural deficit for 2025–26.
"We are 5 months into a 5 year strategic plan," Dr. Garcia said, outlining four priority areas focused on academic excellence, relevance and engagement, student well‑being, and the systems that sustain that work. She told the board that districtwide mathematics scores showed growth from fall to winter and that more students are moving from median performance into higher-performance categories.
The superintendent said the district is strengthening early literacy by training all kindergarten through second‑grade teachers in the Norton Gillingham approach and by rolling out a districtwide MCAS literacy screener to provide consistent baseline data.
"By the end of the school year, all kindergarten through second grade teachers will be…
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