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One office serves both the school and the district. Call us — someone will pick up.

By Phone

530-459-3189

School and district office

In Person / By Mail

Big Springs Elementary School
7405 Highway A-12, Montague, CA 96064

Big Springs Union Elementary School District

Office Hours

Monday–Thursday 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM · Friday 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Fax 530-459-3201

Program Phones

Scotty Appleford

Superintendent / Principal

sappleford@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Linda Avila Gonzalez

Business Manager / District Secretary

lavilagonzalez@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Maralee Owen

Principal Secretary / School Office Manager

mowen@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Placeholder — to be verifiedAdditional staff email addresses are listed in the Staff Directory. Personal phone numbers are never published.

Compliance Contacts

Title IX, Uniform Complaint Procedures, and the Homeless/Foster Youth Liaison.

Title IX Coordinator

Scotty Appleford

sappleford@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) Officer

Linda Avila Gonzalez

lavilagonzalez@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Homeless / Foster Youth Liaison

Maralee Owen

mowen@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Family Support

Housing Instability & Foster Placement

Families experiencing housing instability, or students in foster placement, should contact the district liaison. The liaison works with families to remove enrollment and school-access barriers, including registration, records, transportation questions, and school stability. Individual student situations are kept confidential.

Maralee Owen

Homeless / Foster Youth Liaison

mowen@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us

530-459-3189

Discrimination, harassment, intimidation, bullying, sexual harassment, and retaliation are prohibited. Concerns may be reported to a teacher, the school office, the principal, the Title IX Coordinator, or another trusted adult. See District → Policies for the full statement and handbook link.

Accessibility & Website Feedback

Big Springs is committed to making this website usable for everyone. If you encounter a page, document, or feature you cannot access, call the school office at 530-459-3189 and we will provide the information in another format and work to fix the issue.

This site offers English and Hmong. Hmong translations are machine-generated placeholders pending human review.