Principal's Message

Arcade Students and Families,

I want to take a moment to welcome you to the 2025-2026 school year as well as to introduce myself. For the first two decades of my career, I had the honor of teaching and coaching children from a variety of backgrounds at Carnegie Middle School. In both capacities, I always attempted to engage, motivate, and encourage students to attain their maximum potential. As an English teacher, I gained valuable instructional experience working with students and significant curricular experience in working with colleagues. These skills have allowed me to support my staff and enhance the learning environment for the students I have served as vice principal at Del Campo and Mira Loma High Schools over the past ten years, and I now look forward to the new opportunity to support Arcade Middle School as principal.

 

A digital Summer Mailer will be sent out soon where you will find important information about schedule pick up, navigating our campus, our Where Everybody Belongs (W.E.B.) Program, and other information which will help prepare you and your student for the start of the school year. Please take some time to carefully review this information with your student and please make note of the dates mentioned below.

 

• Orientation (for 6th graders/New-to-Arcade 7th & 8th graders): Thursday, August 7th
• Schedule Pick-up: Friday, August 8th
• First Day of School: Thursday, August 14th.

 

As our student body continues to grow, so does our staff with ten new teachers and a variety of new support staff hired this year. We are excited for the new opportunities to work with your students, and I look forward to working collaboratively with you this year to support your child's education.

 

To maintain consistent communication, you will receive a weekly newsletter, the Spartan Shield, to provide important updates to families. If your email address is up-to-date in the Parent Portal, you will receive the newsletter automatically.

 

I welcome any questions, concerns, ideas, or feedback. Please feel to contact me at any time at muhler@sanjuan.edu or at 916-971-7300.

Sincerely,

Mark Uhler