Gilroy Prep News Today

GILROY — In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like

Gilroy Preps Squads model has students teaching each other under teacher supervision, boosting collaboration, soft skills, test scores and attendance rates.

Founded in the 2019-20 academic year, Watsonville Prep is the newest branch of the Hollister-based charter management organization Navigator Schools Network, which operates three college preparatory charter schools on the Central Coast.

The $90 million modernization project of South Valley Middle School, which broke ground in 2021, is nearly complete.