Orange Unified School District (OUSD) is a
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school district
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headquartered in
Orange, California
Orange is a city located in North Orange County, California. It is approximately north of the county seat, Santa Ana. Orange is unusual in this region because many of the homes in its Old Town District were built before 1920. While many other ...
.
Orange USD serves the cities of
Orange
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and
Villa Park
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, the unincorporated land of
Silverado, and parts of
Anaheim,
Garden Grove,
Santa Ana, and an unpopulated area of
Yorba Linda
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. Its student enrollment during the 2004–2005 school year was 31,600.
History
The Orange Unified School District was formed in 1953, when citizens in the
City of Orange
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** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower
*Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
* ...
voted to form a school district, which combined five elementary districts with one high school district.
In 2003, Orange USD gave territory to the
Tustin Unified School District.
District Schools
The district operates 29
elementary
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, 5
middle, 4
high school
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s, a
continuation high school
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, a K-8 math and science magnet school and two special schools. Nineteen of its forty-two schools have been recognized as
California Distinguished Schools. Three of its high schools are consistently listed among
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's ''1,000 Best Public High Schools in America''.
Some elementary and middle schools within the district also continue to achieve above average standardized test scores and national distinctions, while others are state designated Underperforming Schools under the
No Child Left Behind Act's sanctions. Generally, its highest performing schools are in the
Anaheim Hills
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area where all schools have been named California Distinguished Schools and constantly rank among the best schools in the county, while schools in the City of Orange tend to have lower standardized test scores.
High schools
*
Canyon High School
*
El Modena High School
*
Orange High School
*
Villa Park High School
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Middle schools
* Cerro Villa Middle School
* El Rancho Charter School
* Portola Middle School
* Santiago Prep Charter Academy
* Yorba Middle School
* McPherson Magnet School
Elementary schools
*Anaheim Hills Elementary School
*California Elementary School
*Crescent Elementary
*Cambridge Elementary School
*Canyon Rim Elementary School
*Chapman Hills Elementary School
*Crescent (formerly Peralta) Intermediate School
*Crescent Primary School
*Esplanade Elementary School
*Fairhaven Elementary School
*Fletcher Elementary School
*Handy Elementary School
*Imperial Elementary School
*Jordan Elementary School
*La Veta Elementary School
*Lampson Elementary School
*Linda Vista Elementary School
*McPherson Magnet School
*Nohl Canyon Elementary School
*Olive Elementary School
*Palmyra Elementary School
*Panorama Elementary School
*Prospect Elementary School
*Running Springs Elementary School
*Serrano Elementary School
*Sycamore Elementary School
*Taft Elementary School
*Villa Park Elementary School
*West Orange Elementary School
Special schools
*Canyon Hills School
*Parkside School
*Richland High School
Board of Education
*Trustee Area 1 Andrea Yamasaki, Vice President
*Trustee Area 2 John Ortega
*Trustee Area 3 Ana Page
*Trustee Area 4 Kathryn Moffat, President
*Trustee Area 5 Kristen Erickson, Clerk
*Trustee Area 6 Angie Rumsey
*Trustee Area 7 Rick Ledesma
Gay-Straight Alliance (Colin ex rel. Colin v. Orange Unified School District)
In 1999, the Orange Unified School District voted unanimously to prohibit the formation of a
Gay-Straight Alliance at
El Modena High School. The students sued the school board, claiming that their rights under the
First Amendment
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and the 1984
Equal Access Act
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had been violated. In the first-ever ruling of its kind, Judge
David O. Carter of the
issued a preliminary injunction ordering the school to allow the GSA to meet. After a settlement was agreed upon, the students were allowed to meet and were given access to school resources equal to all other campus clubs.
References
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Education in Anaheim, California
1953 establishments in California
School districts established in 1953