Sausalito Marin City School District is a public school district serving Sausalito and the unincorporated area of Marin City in Marin County, California. The school's administrative offices currently are in the Bayside Elementary/Martin Luther King, Jr., Academy facility in Marin City. Previously the administrative offices were in Bayside Elementary School in Sausalito.As of the 2004-05 school year, the District had 263 students at its three schools.HistoryDuring much of the district's history, the demographics were evenly split between White students and African-American students. Most of the military families from nearby bases, who were mostly White, sent their children to Sausalito public schools. After the Cold War ended, the United States Department of Defense closed Fort Baker, Fort Berry, and the Presidio of San Francisco. Over 100 students left the school district in one period after the military transfers. By then, many families in Sausalito were sending children to private schools instead of public schools. By 1996 80% of the students were African American, and most of the district's students were poor. Despite the district's high student spending and small class sizes, test scores were low.In 1997 the Marin County Civil Grand Jury published a report indicating that, despite the ample funding, the district had poor performance and violence.
