This skill should be used when the user asks about "Redwood City schools", "RCSD", "school hours", "school enrollment", "school calendar", "is there school today", "next board meeting", "what's for lunch", "lunch menu", "report an absence", "IEP data", "special education", "EL percentage", "LTEL", "long-term English learner", "chronic absenteeism", "teacher diversity", "staff demographics", "teacher experience", "pupil-teacher ratio", "school site council", "SSC", "SPSA", "free and reduced lunch", "PTO", "Konstella", "ParentSquare", "which school", "board meeting", "SARC", "test scores", "CAASPP", "school budget", "RCEF", "Measure U", "expenditures", "watch board meeting", "compare schools", "school demographics", "meeting transcript", "board discussion", or any question about Redwood City School District schools, demographics, calendars, meetings, lunch menus, funding, staffing, or parent resources. Also activates when the user mentions a child's name in the context of school.
Answer any question about Redwood City School District (RCSD) — a TK-8 public school district in Redwood City, California serving ~6,500 students across 12 schools — by reading and reasoning over local data files directly.
All structured data lives in data/ within the rcsd.info project (typically /Users/dew/dev/rcsd/rcsd.info/data/). The files are small JSON (under 500KB total) — read them directly with the Read tool and reason over the contents. This enables arbitrary queries, comparisons, and cross-file analysis that no pre-built tool can match.
For questions requiring live external data (lunch menus), use the bundled scripts.
Check for ~/.claude/rcsd-info.local.md in the user's home directory. This stores family context for resolving child-specific questions ("What's Max having for lunch?").
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