Attracting and retaining quality career teachers and educational support staff is central to the fabric of our community. The Pacifica School District has made this a top priority.

Over the years, the rising cost of housing has been a major obstacle in meeting our mission and in retaining teachers—many of whom are enduring long commutes from areas where housing is more affordable. We also must regularly recruit new teachers with the passion and skills necessary to meet the challenges of the future in order to continue providing an equitable, rigorous academic program that inspires joy, confidence, and achievement in learning.

Our children’s teachers would need to spend half of their monthly gross salary to afford a one-bedroom, 750 square foot apartment in Pacifica today.

For the past eight years, the Pacifica School District has been working to explore the use of surplus District-owned land to provide quality affordable housing for Pacifica’s teachers and educational support staff. Based on public feedback and expert analysis, we have identified the opportunity to use the former elementary campus at 930 Oddstad Blvd. to help meet District housing needs.

To achieve this, the District has engaged Brookwood Advisors to help re-use the former elementary campus at Oddstad Blvd. This campus has been closed since 2005 due to lack of enrollment and consolidation of students to other campuses. In recent years, the District has seen an additional decline in enrollment, so the need for future school capacity has further diminished. Existing school sites have the ability to meet the long-term needs of the community without the Oddstad site.