The Los Angeles City School District was a

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that served Los Angeles, California, and some adjoining areas between 1870 and 1961.

History

The district was formed on May 2, 1870, with the same boundaries as the city of Los Angeles. In 1890 the

Los Angeles City High School District Los Angeles City High School District (known in its last year as West County Union High School District) was a school district that served high school-aged residents of western Los Angeles County, California from 1890 to 1962. At times the distri ...

was formed to serve high school students. The Los Angeles City School District and various other feeder elementary school districts served elementary and junior high students.LA City Schools Creation
().

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. February 7, 1998. The elementary school district annexed various elementary school districts during its existence. The annexations include: * April 17, 1896: Harmony and Rosedale * February 26, 1906: McKinley * 1907 ** January 22: Green Meadows and Sunnyside ** February 25: Gardena ** April 8: Howard and Moneta * 1909 ** August 7: Lincoln, San Pedro, and Wilmington ** August 27: Dominguez ** November 8: Cahuenga *1910 ** February 21:

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** February 28: Los Felis ** March 7: Coldwater-Lankershim and Laurel *1912 **February 1: Mt. Washington-Washington Park **February 9: American and Annandale **March 25: Belvedere **July 8: Miramonte *1915 **June 1: Chatsworth Park,

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, and

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**June 22: Farmdale **July 12: Morningside and

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*1917 **July 30: Cienega **August 27: Vineland *1918 **March 11: National **April 22: Hansen Height *1921 **August 8: Russell **October 27: Sawtelle *1923 **May 17:

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**June 18:

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**November 15:

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*May 4, 1925:

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*1926 **August 23: Monte Vista and Venice City **December 6:

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and Maywood *1927 **May 18: San Antonio **May 23:

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**December 19: Palomar *January 23, 1928: Vernon City *February 20, 1929: Tujunga *August 31, 1931: Tweedy *January 18, 1932:

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Torrance was originally in the district; Sam Gnerre of ''

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'' wrote that "As early as the 1920s, the city had expressed unhappiness over being allied with LAUSD." - The article states "

" but the Los Angeles schools were not yet unified into a single school district
as this happened in 1961
Dr. J.S. Lancaster created a campaign to establish a school district in the mid-1920s, but the first two formal referendums on secession, on April 11, 1932 and March 16, 1937, respectively, failed on 1,346-572 and 932-378 bases. However on August 20, 1946, Torrance voters did approve a new city charter, 1,371-761, which allowed for a new district to be created. Torrance seceded in 1947 and created a new school district, which in 1948 became the

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(TUSD). The Los Angeles City School District removed all of the furniture from the Torrance elementary and middle schools; Gnerre wrote that "LAUSD was not pleased with the outcome of the election." The district disappeared on July 1, 1961, when it and the

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merged and became a unified school district, the

. The annexation left the

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and the

Las Vergenes Union School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K–12 school district headquartered in Calabasas, California, Calabasas, California, United States. The district, serving the western section of the San Fernando Valley and the eastern Conejo Valle ...

as separate remnants of the high school district, renamed to the West County Union High School District.

References

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