Castaic High School announced their founding assistant principal Thursday, which is expected to open in the fall semester of 2019.

Sarah Delawder, who is currently the assistant principal at Valencia High School, will join the administrative team for the brand new school led by Melanie Hagman.

“I am delighted to welcome Sarah Delawder back to the Castaic community,” said Hagman, principal of Castaic High School. “We share the same enthusiasm for how we can ensure student success through the three different programs offered at the school (comprehensive high school, iCAN Academy and Career Technical Education).”

Delawder holds a bachelor’s degree from UC-Santa Barbara and received her teaching credential and master’s degree in counseling from the University of La Verne.

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As an Arroyo Seco Junior High and Saugus High graduate, Delawder has been a part of the community since the beginning of her teaching career.

Delawder taught at Canyon High School for seven years before becoming an assistant principal for an additional seven years at Castaic Middle School.

For the past three years, she has been an assistant principal at Valencia High School.

“I am excited to work with Principal Hagman and the leadership team of Castaic High School to build a campus full of opportunity for students and families in the Castaic and Santa Clarita communities,” said Delawder.

The high school campus sits on 58 acres, part of a nearly 200-acre site, that features the largest athletic fields in the district, a 450-seat performing arts center and a building dedicated to career technical education, according to officials.

When complete, the buildings will be able to comfortably house a student body of 2,600.

Castaic High School is scheduled to open in the fall semester of 2019 to ninth graders only, and is expected to add one grade level per year.

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