Matt Duffy currently serves as the Superintendent of the San Bruno Park School District, a pre-K to 8th grade school district serving 6 schools in the San Bruno community, located just south of San Francisco.
Matt Duffy has nearly thirty years of experience in public education. He is the former Superintendent of the West Contra Unified School District where he served for five years. In the WCCUSD, a large sprawling district of 55 schools in the East Bay, Matt worked to improve many areas of the district including instructional leadership, financial management, school program design and community engagement. Matt successfully oversaw a large facilities bond and renovation program for his former district as well as introduced an improved organic nutrition program and an elementary sports league for the district’s highest need students.
During his tenure in West Contra Costa, English Learner reclassification rates grew, the lowest performing elementary schools moved out of the bottom tier of the California dashboard and teacher and principal retention improved. Most notably, he opened a set of new schools, including a Dual Immersion Mandarin School and academies for newcomer students. Additionally, Matt worked to expand music programs, ethnic studies classes and new career technical education offerings.
Prior to West Contra Costa, Matt served as the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services in the Milpitas Unified School District. While in Milpitas, overall student achievement scores rose significantly. Matt led a successful effort to deepen personalized learning across the district as well as expand music, open a Spanish Dual Immersion school and significantly increase professional development opportunities for educators.
Matt also spent nine years in Oakland Unified serving as a Regional Superintendent and middle school principal. A signature piece of Matt’s work in Oakland was the design and creation of a new middle school, paving the way for other new small schools across the district. His school, at the time known as Elmhurst Community Prep, saw strong gains for all students while boasting the highest API for African-American students at the time. As a Regional Superintendent, Matt oversaw a portfolio of 15 schools including middle and high schools throughout the city.
Matt is originally from New York City where he also served as a teacher and Assistant Principal for seven years in the Harlem and South Bronx communities. Matt has received graduate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the City University of New York as is a proud graduate of Wesleyan University. Additionally, he has served as a leadership consultant for WestEd and the Berkeley Unified School District and his writing has been featured in the Next Gen Learning Challenge and Edutopia.
Matt lives in Oakland with his wife Tamara, also an educator, and three children Caelin, Lio and Luna, ages 13, 11, and 4. Matt's boys attend Dual Immersion Spanish school in Oakland. Matt is an avid sports fan, especially passionate about the New York Mets and Golden State Warriors. He enjoys being outside, baseball on the radio and a good slice of pizza.