Children living in base housing in San Pedro attend schools
within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Children living at
Fort MacArthur housing are attend Point Fermin Elementary; those in Pacific
Heights and Pacific Crest attend White Point Elementary.
There are
separate school districts for most of the cities in Los Angeles
County. For example, these cities close to Los Angeles AFB have their
own K-12 school districts: El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Redondo
Beach, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Torrance, and Long Beach.
Smaller K-8
districts are in Hermosa Beach, Lawndale, and Hawthorne. Students
from Hermosa Beach will attend high school in Manhattan Beach or Redondo
Beach. Those in Lawndale and Hawthorne will graduate from one of the
four high schools in the Centinela Valley Union High School District in the city
of Hawthorne.
Los Angeles Unified schools in San Pedro and most schools
in South Bay districts begin classes after Labor Day in September and dismiss
near the end of June.
California law provides for an
interdistrict transfer of pupils from the school district in which they reside
to the school district where the parent or guardian is employed. Some
districts also grant transfers based upon the student's before- and after-
school child care arrangements. If you are interested in a school
district outside your neighborhood, check with the other school district to make
sure they have room for your student. Then get a transfer permit from
your neighborhood school. The School Liaison at the Family Support
Center is available to answer questions.
Some parents wish to use
distance education resources to school their children at
home. Parents would have to file an R-4 affidavit in
October. This is a notice of operation of a home school, not an
application for approval. To request an affidavit, call the LA County
Office of Education at (562) 922-6111.