Torrance Unified School District

🎉 Congratulations to our four Torrance Unified School District elementary schools named as 2025 California Distinguished Schools by the California Department of Education! John Adams, Arlington, Towers, and Yukon elementary schools — your dedication to academic excellence and unwavering commitment to exceptional student performance continue to inspire us all!

Members of our Torrance Unified School District team had the privilege of attending the Los Angeles County Office of Education Teacher of the Year Reception, where we celebrated Mrs. Nicolle Fazis, who teaches Algebra 1 & Study Skills at Hull Middle School!🎉 She was selected as one of 16 remarkable LA County Teachers of the Year who will now move on to compete in the State Teacher of the Year competition. Mrs. Fazis’s dedication to her students and enthusiasm for education at Hull continue to inspire and motivate us all. Congratulations, Mrs. Fazis, on this well-deserved honor, and best of luck in the state! 👏

Yesterday was the first day back for our students, and I enjoyed visiting schools and welcoming our students, parents, and staff to the 2024-25 school year. Looking forward to another great year in the Torrance Unified School District! 

Torrance Unified administrators are busy preparing for our 2024-2025 school year. A special thank you to our partners at Dignity Health Sports Park and LA Galaxy for generously hosting our Annual Leadership and General Administrators professional development training at their beautiful American Express Stadium Club. Our day included informative presentations, school planning, team building, sharing best practices, lunch, and, of course, great photo ops!

🏆We are proud to announce that in July, the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) recognized our District's communication work with three awards, adding to the three we previously won from the California School Public Relations Association (CALSPRA). A special thank you to our partners at Ideation/Charles Lee (branding) and Bakersman/Paul Kartsonis and Team (video production) for their strategic, creative, and production partnership on these projects. The specific awards included: CALSPRA Superintendent to Watch - Dr. Tim Stowe CALSPRA Award of Excellence: Video "Why Torrance Unified?" CALSPRA Award of Merit: Employee Newsletter "What's the 411?" NSPRA Award of Excellence: Video "Why Torrance Unified?" NSPRA Award of Merit: Re-Branding, New Logo and Style Guide NSPRA Honorable Mention: State of Our Schools Report to the Community #SchoolPR #TorranceUSD #TorranceUnifiedSchoolDistrict #torranceeducation

📣 📰 The 2024 Daily Breeze/Beach Reporter Readers Choice Awards announced the 2024 winners, and we are thrilled that we have won 19 awards, including BEST public school district, for a FOURTH year in a row! This year we were also recognized as a FAVORITE WORKPLACE! Thank you to all the voters and all of our partners for this continued honor; we are so proud of all of our schools and the way we serve our students!

📣 🎓 We had a wonderful time celebrating our Class of 2024 graduates! We wish them all well as they embark on their career and college pathways and we hope they always remain proud of their newly established Torrance Unified Alumni status! #TorranceUnified #TorranceUSD #EveryStudentEveryDay #Classof2024 #2024Graduates

📣🔬🚀 47 Torrance Unified students traveled back to compete against 391 other student finalists during the U.S. National Invention Convention held at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan last week. These bright minds tackled real-world problems and crafted creative, evidence-based solutions to benefit others, confidently presenting their projects to the judges. We are beyond proud to announce that our innovative inventors brought home TEN awards (View Photos!) including two highly coveted Industry Sector awards- for the TOP CATEGORY INVENTIONS in the entire United States (K-12)! CONGRATULATIONS! #TorranceUnified #75yearsofTorranceUSD #WhyTorranceUnified #STEMEducation #StudentLeaders #InventionConvention #EveryStudentEveryDay