The Miller Creek Elementary School District , formerly the Dixie School District , is a school district located in San Rafael, California that operates four schools in the northern portion of the city: Mary E. Silveira Elementary School in the Marinwood area, Vallecito Elementary School in the Terra Linda area, Lucas Valley Elementary School, and Miller Creek Middle School in the Marinwood area. All four are California Distinguished Schools .
7-617: The Miller Creek School District was named after a local creek and existing middle school. It was formerly named the Dixie School District after the Dixie Schoolhouse , a one-room schoolhouse built in 1864. The source of the name for the original school was in dispute and had been a source of community discussion. The Dixie school board voted in April 2019 to form a committee to choose a new name as after considering
14-498: A 14.50 student to teacher ratio. Vallecito Elementary School Mary E. Silveira Elementary School The three elementary schools are feeder schools to Miller Creek Middle School. The middle school contains grades 6 through 8 and is one of the feeder middle schools to Terra Linda High School . Miller Creek's mascot is a black panther. This California school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dixie Schoolhouse The Dixie Schoolhouse
21-698: Is a historic one-room schoolhouse located in San Rafael , Marin County , Northern California . It was built in 1864, in the Victorian Italianate style . The school was the project of Irish immigrant and Marin pioneer James Miller. A few traditions attempt to explain why Miller selected the name " Dixie ", a nickname for the Southern United States. Some say the schoolhouse was built by Southern carpenters, while others believe
28-723: The South that seceded from the U.S. to form the Confederacy . In June 1971, the schoolhouse was moved to its current location, near Miller Creek Middle School, also in San Rafael. It was restored and renovated prior to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The school is currently preserved by the Old Dixie School Foundation, and is open to the public for visits on
35-566: The association with the 11 states in the South that seceded from the U.S. to form the Confederacy . Three board members voted in favor of changing the name, while one each voted against and did an abstention. The school board has five members. As of 2022, the current superintendent is Becky Rosales, former superintendent of the Waugh School District in Petaluma, who was appointed interim superintendent of Miller Creek days before
42-425: The board voted to change the district name. Dr. Lustig Yamashiro (2017–2019) and Mr. Lohawasser (1997–2017) were the predecessors. The district includes portions of San Rafael and all of Lucas Valley-Marinwood . Lucas Valley Elementary School was formerly Dixie Elementary School. The name change occurred at the time the district's name changed. During the 2021 to 2022 school year the elementary had 336 students with
49-552: The name honors Mary Dixie, a local Indian woman; still others believe that "Dixie" is derived from the French word for "ten". The school was in use for classes from 1864 until 1958. The Dixie School District (now the Miller Creek Elementary School District ) got its name from this first school. The school district changed its name in 2020 after considering the association with the 11 states in
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