Mike Melton, principal of a middle school in Rocklin, California, has been named the new principal of Hillview Middle School, the Menlo Park City School District announced on May 19.
He will start July 1, and succeeds Mike Moore, who is retiring in June. Mr. Moore has headed the grades 6-8 school in Menlo Park for the past 23 years.
Mr. Melton, who has been an administrator for 20 years, is a leader in the California Alliance for Middle Schools, an organization that investigates best educational practices for middle school education, said Ken Ranella, superintendent of the Menlo Park district.
The Association of California School Administrators recently named Mr. Melton “Placer County Administrator of the Year” and Northern California’s Administrator of the Year, Mr. Ranella said in an e-mail.
It will be a busy first year at Hillview for Mr. Melton. The district is preparing for major construction on the Hillview campus that will replace existing classrooms with new two-story buildings, as well as a new performing arts center and administration building. The enrollment at Hillview is expected to climb from the current 670 students to an estimated 974 students in 2016.
The environmental study for the Hillview project is set to go before the school board at its Tuesday, June 9, meeting. At that meeting, the board is expected to vote to accept the environmental impact report (EIR), paving the way for the construction to go forward.
Before his two-decade career as a school administrator, Mr. Melton spent several years as a drama, band and choral music teacher, Mr. Ranella said.
He is principal of Granite Oaks Middle School in the Sunset-Whitney area of the Rocklin Unified School District. The school has the highest Academic Performance Index score (in the 900s) among middle schools in Placer County.
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