![Central Union's Stratford School students get back-to-school gifts from local benefactor Sandridge Partners Students get a closer look at items from Standridge Partners.](http://www.mylemooreleader.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/w500/n1950/08 17 2023 Stratford students get a look items.jpg)
Students get a closer look at items from Standridge Partners.
Photos Contributed Ricky Hernandez
For the third year in a row, an early Christmas came to students this week at Stratford School as Sandridge Partners, a business with ties to Lemoore, donated backpacks and school supplies to students and laptop computers to the local students for back-to-school.
In past years, Sandridge Partners has donated backpacks, computers, and more, including computers, to the eighth-grade class.
Sandridge Partners, based in Buttonwillow, farms throughout the Stratford Area and the Central Valley.
Sandridge has donated over 300 backpacks and laptop computers to the school in the past few years. The local company has also donated turkeys to Stratford during a November turkey drive, and at Christmas, the students at Stratford Elementary received gifts.
![Central Union's Stratford School students get back-to-school gifts from local benefactor Sandridge Partners Stratford students get a close look at donated backpacks](http://www.mylemooreleader.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/w410/n1950/08 17 2023 Stratford School kids have their pick of backpacks.jpg)
Stratford students get a close look at donated backpacks
![Central Union's Stratford School students get back-to-school gifts from local benefactor Sandridge Partners Stratford students take a closer look at items donated by Sandridge Partners.](http://www.mylemooreleader.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/w410/n1950/08 17 2023 Students looking over items.jpg)
Stratford students take a closer look at items donated by Sandridge Partners.