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Please join our Superintendent Marc Patterson for our first Town Hall Meetings of the new school year: August 21 at East Whittier Middle School, August 24 at Hillview Middle School, and September 7 at Granada Middle School. See the flyer for more information.

We are looking forward to seeing all of our returning and new Owls! Office reopens on August 3, 7:30am-4:00 pm. Class assignments will be posted August 14 at 5:00 pm.

East Whittier School District administrators, board members and state elected officials donned hard hats and used golden shovels to dig into La Colima Elementary’s kindergarten playground at a groundbreaking ceremony on June 16, kicking off the District’s first series of Measure R and Measure Z facility improvement projects

La Colima School was named to the Educational Results Partnership and Campaign for Business and Education Excellence Honor Roll for the sixth consecutive year. EWCSD was also named as an Honor Roll District for the fifth year in a row.

Many La Colima Owls and families joined in the grand opening celebration of the new South Whittier Library. Our Student Council President Nicolas was a featured speaker at the event.

Back to School Night is August 23 for 3rd-5th Grades, Learning Center, and Mrs. Gilbert, and August 30 for K-2nd Grades, Mrs. Canales/Mrs. Perez, and Mrs. Garcia

Tom Torlakson recently announced La Colima School as one of the schools being honored as a 2016 California Gold Ribbon School

La Colima School and East Whittier City School District values the input of its parents as it prepares to evaluate the second year implementation of the Local Control Accountability Plan for the 15-16 school year.