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School Year Starts Smoothly
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Offering a few final words of encouragement before leaving son Ryder, 5, in his kindergarten classroom at Dent Elementary is mom Megan Kistler. Enrollment numbers in the Escalon Unified School District topped out at over 2,900 by the end of the first week. Marg Jackson/The Times
With ‘Back to School’ nights now completed at all school sites – the final one hosted on Thursday, Aug. 18 at El Portal Middle School – the 2016-17 school year is officially off and running. Escalon Unified School District Superintendent Ron Costa said that overall, the first couple of weeks have gone by smoothly. “I have visited all sites and students and staff are already working very hard,” Costa noted.