Los Angeles City School District

The Los Angeles City School District was a school district 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 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.[1]

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
  • 1910
  • 1912
    • February 1: Mt. Washington-Washington Park
    • February 9: American and Annandale
    • March 25: Belvedere
    • July 8: Miramonte
  • 1915
  • 1917
    • July 30: Cienega
    • August 27: Vineland
  • 1918
    • March 11: National
    • April 22: Hansen Height
  • 1921
  • 1923
  • May 4, 1925: Watts
  • 1926
  • 1927
  • January 23, 1928: Vernon City
  • February 20, 1929: Tujunga
  • August 31, 1931: Tweedy
  • January 18, 1932: Huntington Park

Torrance was originally in the district; Sam Gnerre of The Daily Breeze wrote that "As early as the 1920s, the city had expressed unhappiness over being allied with LAUSD." [sic][2] 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 Torrance Unified School District (TUSD). The Los Angeles City School District removed all of the furniture from the Torrance elementary and middle schools; Gnerre wrote that "LAUSD [sic] was not pleased with the outcome of the election."[2]

On January 31, 1957, a DC7B crashed into the schoolyard of Pacoima Junior High School in Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California following a midair collision with a US military plane, resulting in the deaths of the four crew members aboard the DC-7B, the pilot of the Scorpion jet, and two students on the ground, a third died three days later. Additionally, approximately seventy-eight students suffered injuries which ranged from minor to life-threatening.

The district disappeared on July 1, 1961, when it and the Palos Verdes School District merged and became a unified school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District. The annexation left the Topanga School District and the Las Vergenes Union School District as separate remnants of the high school district, renamed to the West County Union High School District.[1]

Schools

References
  1. "LA City Schools Creation" (). Los Angeles Unified School District. February 7, 1998.
  2. Gnerre, Sam (2013-07-12). "Evelyn Carr's role in the founding of the Torrance Unified School District". The Daily Breeze. Retrieved 2020-10-20. - The article states "Los Angeles Unified School District" but the Los Angeles schools were not yet unified into a single school district, as this happened in 1961.
  3. Gnerre, Sam (2015-09-12). "Torrance's Fern Elementary School survives, and thrives". The Daily Breeze. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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