A Holiday Message from Superintendent Schieferle

Dear FUSD Community,
Happy Holidays! As we wrap up 2022, I wanted to share how grateful I am to serve as your Superintendent.  I would like to thank our amazing students, staff, families, and communities of Fillmore and Piru for your support. We will continue to remain student-focused and work relentlessly to provide the necessary resources and support so all students can thrive both inside and outside of our classrooms. Reflecting on this past semester, we have been able to celebrate passing a facilities bond, bringing parent volunteers back into our classrooms, full-schedule athletic events, and music and drama performances. Cheers to 2023 and the great things to come for our students in the Fillmore Unified School District! Enjoy the holiday break and we look forward to welcoming our students back to school on January 11, 2023.

On behalf of the FUSD Governing Board, I wish you a joyful holiday season and a safe and happy new year.

Sincerely,
Christine Schieferle, Superintendent
Fillmore Unified School District

College of the Week: Ohi Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University is a small liberal arts school located in the city of Delaware, about 20 minutes north of the state capital, Columbus. Students at Ohio Wesleyan can choose from more than 90 majors in the fields of arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Freshmen have the opportunity to make friends through the Fresh X program, in which they go on an organized retreat with their classmates the summer before their first semester of classes.

The student-faculty ratio at Ohio Wesleyan University is 11:1, and the school has 71.7% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Ohio Wesleyan University include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Social Sciences; Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology; Visual and Performing Arts; Psychology; Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Education; History; and Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 79%. (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ohio-wesleyan-3109)

For more information on Fillmore High School's Colleges of the Week go to https://www.smore.com/n8wpy

college of the week: Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & Clark College is a private institution, in Portland’s southwest hills, with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Students and faculty throughout all three of Lewis & Clark’s schools—the undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the School of Law—pursue new ways of knowing by combining classic liberal learning with pioneering collaboration.

The student-faculty ratio at Lewis & Clark College is 12:1, and the school has 59.1% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Lewis & Clark College include: Social Sciences; Psychology; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Visual and Performing Arts; Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs; English Language and Literature/Letters; History; Natural Resources and Conservation; and Mathematics and Statistics. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 83%. (https://www.usnews.com/best.../lewis--clark-college-3197)

For more information on Fillmore High School's Colleges of the Week go to https://www.smore.com/n8wpy

Flash Forward: Isis Topete, Class of 2010

Fillmore High and The Fillmore High Alumni Association present December 2022 Flash Forward Student of the Month, Isis Topete. Flash Forward is a monthly look at the accomplishments of students who have graduated from Fillmore High. Isis is a Fillmore High class of 2010 graduate and a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, School of Optometry, and Duke University.

College of the Week: Lehigh University

Lehigh University is located in Bethlehem, Pa., 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 75 miles west of New York City. The Lehigh Mountain Hawks are members of the Patriot League, and compete in 25 NCAA Division I sports.

The student-faculty ratio at Lehigh University is 10:1, and the school has 49.2% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Lehigh University include: Finance, General; Computer Science; Mechanical Engineering; Accounting; Marketing/Marketing Management, General; Business/Managerial Economics; Information Technology; Psychology, General; Industrial Engineering; and Chemical Engineering. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 93%. (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/lehigh-university-3289)

For more information on Fillmore High School's Colleges of the Week go to https://www.smore.com/n8wpy

College of the Week: Kalamazoo College

The hilltop campus of Kalamazoo College is located in southwest Michigan, about 140 miles from both Detroit and Chicago. Students at Kalamazoo College can study in more than 25 undergraduate liberal arts fields and often learn through immersive, career-related programs. Through the Discovery Externship Program, freshmen and sophomores spend about two weeks living and working with alumni who work in the students' areas of study.

The student-faculty ratio at Kalamazoo College is 11:1, and the school has 70.1% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Kalamazoo College include: Social Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Physical Sciences; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Psychology; Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; English Language and Literature/Letters; Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services; Visual and Performing Arts; and Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 87%. (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/kalamazoo-college-2275)

For more information on Fillmore High School's Colleges of the Week go to https://www.smore.com/n8wpy

Scholar System Presentation for parents [English/Spanish]

Please see flyers for information on an upcoming Scholar System presentation for parents. As part of the presentation, Dr. Mario Galicia will be discussing approaches to engage and empower our at-promise youth. Strong partnerships between our school communities and families are crucial for the success of our at-promise students, so please join us that evening to learn strategies for leadership building.

Measure G Funded Athletic Complex Public Input Sessions November 21 & 28, 2022 [English/Spanish]

Although not all the votes have been counted, as of Wednesday November 16, 2022, Measure G, with a growing 61.72% successful margin, is on track to pass. In anticipation of Measure G’s passage, the Fillmore Unified School District welcomes the community, students, and staff to give input on the new Athletic Complex to be constructed at Fillmore High School. We’ve invited the architects to listen to all of your ideas. Please join us for three sessions. Two on November 21st at 3pm & 5:30pm, and one on November 28th at 6pm. All sessions will be held in the High School library. Please enter at the 2nd street gate. Thank you!