Fowler Unified School District

Welcome to our website. Fowler Unified School District is hosting this website in order to highlight its achievements and to also communicate vital information about its schools to parents and community people. We hope that this website will be informative and a valuble resource to all visitors.
Marshall School (K-2), Principal-Gloria Regier 
Malaga School (K-5), Principal-Danell Stepp
Fremont School (3-5), Principal-Glen Billington 
Sutter Middle School (6-8), Principal-Lori Gonzalez 
Fowler High School (9-12), Principal-Henry Gutierrez
Casa Blanca Alternative Education School (7-12), Principal-Jonathan Farley

Eric Cederquist, Superintendent

With an on-going focus on enhancing the skills of our teaching staff, administrators and other specialists who engage our young people on a daily basis, Fowler Unified School District continues to provide focused, high quality instructional and co-curricular programs. Our six schools sites serve 2,350 students in grades K-12 residing in the communities of Fowler and Malaga.  While our rural setting promotes a clean, peaceful atmosphere for instruction that is reminiscent of earlier times, the technology available at the sites, including Smartboard and Promethean Board modes of instruction, has enhanced our rigorous, focused curriculum that is based on the state content standards, monitored through regular student benchmark assessments and tracked through disaggregation of student achievement data at regular intervals throughout the year.  All schools in the district are wired for Internet access.

A strong staff development program built into the regular instructional day and named Advancing Academic Achievement or “Triple A” Days, has provided valuable time for staff to focus on curriculum planning within departments and across grade levels in Fowler Unified. All schools have incorporated the concept of Professional Learning Communities (or PLC’s) in the instructional program, allowing positive interaction and open dialog about instructional practices among teachers and leadership that leads to enhanced student achievement. Teachers are working more closely together at their grade level and across grade levels to continually improve instruction for the students in our district. Following powerful on-going professional growth in the techniques of Direct Interactive Engaged Instruction at all grade levels, district teachers are committed to  implementing these strategies faithfully.

After-School Programs at eligible schools have added another dimension to our excellent instructional program, with opportunities for students to receive additional assistance in small-group tutorials, explore creative arts and dance, learn a second or third language, engage in physical activity, develop culinary skills, and learn photo and video techniques.

Service Learning and Community Service Projects are an important part of the Fowler Unified School District’s instructional program, with a high percentage of students earning either the Fresno County Office of Education’s Service Learning Award or the Presidential Service Learning Award each year. As a result of these efforts, the district has received the Golden Bell Award from the California School Boards Association for the Serve and Learn Program, which was featured on a radio broadcast on KQED and in Edutopia Magazine in September of 2009.

The positive school climate you will find in district schools is enhanced by the elements listed above as well as:  our Counseling Program for secondary students, our Safe Schools Ambassadors Program, available to students in grades 7-12, and the Voluntary and Confidential Drug Testing Program for high school aged students. The VCDTP provides students a means to deal with the peer pressure they may face from friends to participate in drug use.  In addition, a comprehensive, extra/co-curricular program is in place to provide real-life opportunities for students to gain leadership and teamwork skills necessary for college and the world of work after high school.

In a strong show of support for its schools, voters in the district passed a $21 million bond measure with a 79% approval rate. Bond proceeds have been used to modernize Fowler High School, complete a number of facilities projects at district schools and purchase a 20-acre parcel of land in West Fowler for an elementary school when future enrollment would warrant its construction.

Currently, the district is working to move its alternative education program from its current location near Marshall Elementary School, further east on Adams Avenue behind Nielsen Stadium.  The larger facility will meet the needs of the expanding alternative education program, which includes continuation education, community day school and independent study programs. Plans also include additional field areas for soccer and a variety of other sports for school and community youth groups’ use.

Our district is also involved in a solar energy project that will not only provide shade areas at some school sites, but will generate electricity to reduce future energy costs to the district.  The $4.8 million dollar project, paid for by state grant funds and local bond funds, will pay for itself in eleven years, as well as provide examples of potential alternative energy sources to our students. We were pleased that Governor Brown selected our school district as the site to sign three energy bills on September 22, 2011 that provided funds for Fowler Unified to access this energy savings project. 

In these difficult financial times, support from parents and the community to enhance the educational process in the Fowler Unified School District is needed more than ever as school districts throughout the State struggle to maintain much needed programs. We are proud of our students, parents, staff, programs and facilities in Fowler Unified, offering a learning environment that is second to none.