Children living in base housing in San Pedro attend schools
within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Children living at
Fort MacArthur, Pacific Heights and Pacific Crest attend San Pedro High
School. San Pedro High has a number of academies that give students
an opportunity to learn a specific skill. Academies
include: honors, police, and Air Force JROTC. The Perkins
Academy offers career pathways in culinary arts, health occupations/nursing,
construction, auto mechanics, computer networking/rogramming, and digital
design.
A new charter school, Port of Los Angeles High School, will open
for 9th graders only in the Fall of 2005. See their website for
contacts and registration deadlines.
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. 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. Most high schools offer a variety of college preparatory
and advanced courses in English, Math, History or the Arts. Some
districts have dress codes or uniforms.
Visit the school in the city
where you will be living to ask questions about curriculum, clubs and special
programs. 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.
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.