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Siskiyou County · Statewide General Election

County Superintendent of Schools — Siskiyou County

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

Nonpartisan head of the county office of education.

Allan S Carver led the June 2 primary with 42.6% and Mark Greenfield took 29.4%; neither cleared a majority, so the two meet again on November 3. This is a nonpartisan countywide office in one of California's least populous counties.

The county superintendent runs the Siskiyou County Office of Education. In a county this rural the office matters more than it would elsewhere: districts are small and widely separated, so services that a large district would run itself — special education, transport, curriculum support, fiscal administration — are frequently run at county level instead. The office also oversees district budgets and can intervene when one is in financial trouble.

One candidate appears in public payroll records as having held senior roles in the county education office itself; the other has no published record we could find. In a race with almost no coverage, that asymmetry in the available evidence is itself worth stating rather than papering over — it reflects what has been published, not the candidates' relative merits.

Allan S Carver

Nonpartisan, who led the June primary with 42.6% of the vote. Public payroll records for the Siskiyou County Office of Education list him in assistant superintendent and county superintendent roles. Neither candidate reported campaign finance to the state database we track.

Strengths

Documented senior experience inside the office itself, which is the most direct evidence available for a job of this kind.

Trade-offs

That evidence comes from a payroll database rather than reporting, so it establishes his roles but nothing about how he performed in them.

Keep in mind

No news outlet we cite covers this race at all.

Mark Greenfield

Nonpartisan, who advanced with 29.4% of the June vote. Neither candidate reported campaign finance to the state database we track, and no source we cite describes his background or his plans for the office.

Strengths

He held the leading candidate under a majority and forced a November runoff in a race that might otherwise have ended in June.

Trade-offs

No published record of his background is available to us at all.

Keep in mind

The absence of information here is wider than for his opponent, and that is a fact about what has been published rather than about him. No news outlet we cite covers this race.

June 2 primary — how they advanced

Allan S Carver42.6% · 5,138 votes
Mark Greenfield29.4% · 3,547 votes
Source review: Strong (84/100) · 3 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

Last updated August 10, 2026.