Los Altos School District trustees were to review qualifications and references of five candidates from an original pool of 40 aspirants for the soon-to-be-vacant position of superintendent Monday night.

Trustees were to meet with a representative of the recruitment firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates of Glenview, Ill., but not with the candidates. Trustees plan to begin interviewing all or the most promising of the five administrators March 11. Superintendent Marge Gratiot retires at the end of June.

The board is on schedule to announce the new superintendent April 4 or 11.