Carroll to Head Ocean View Schools

Ocean View School District trustees announced Thursday that Associate Supt. Nancy Carroll has been appointed superintendent of the 2,450-student district.

The announcement comes just one day after it was announced that Supt. Donald Hodes will retire July 1. Hodes said the board made an excellent decision.

“Dr. Carroll is one of the highest-caliber administrators that I have worked with in my 44 years in education,” he said. “Ocean View is fortunate to have a person of this quality ready to take it into the 21st century.”

Carroll, who said she was honored by the appointment, said the kindergarten through eighth-grade district is facing many challenges.

“We have aging facilities,” Carroll said. “We are trying to get our classrooms up to date for technology.”

But she said the district also has many assets, including its diverse population.

“We have very good relations with the school board,” Carroll said. “We are fiscally sound, and we will have to work hard to maintain that.”

Carroll, 44, a Ventura resident since 1975, will be one of the youngest superintendents in Ventura County.

She has served in the south Oxnard district since 1979 as director of bilingual education; curriculum coordinator; principal of Mar Vista Elementary School, which won California Distinguished School honors during her tenure, and, most recently, associate superintendent.

Before coming the district, Carroll was a bilingual teacher at Saticoy and Juanamaria schools in the Ventura Unified School District.