Las Virgenes Unified School District
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Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district headquartered in Calabasas
Calabasas, California
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, California, United States. The district, serving the western section of Los Angeles County
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, consists of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas
Calabasas, California
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, Westlake Village
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, and several small portions of the West Hills
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 section of Los Angeles
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.

Its largest school is Agoura High, with approximately 2,400 students.

History

LVUSD was founded by English
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 immigrant Arthur Edward Wright (1888–1978), a plasterer by trade with only an elementary education. A.E. Wright Middle School is named after him.

When the district was created, its offices were located on the grounds of the Round Meadow Elementary School in Calabasas
Calabasas, California
Calabasas is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California in the western United States. It is located in the hills in the southwestern San Fernando Valley and the Santa Monica Mountains between Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, West Hills, and Malibu, California. As of the 2010 census, the city...

. They were then moved in 1974 to 30961 West Agoura Road in Westlake Village
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, and again in 1990 to a two-story building at 4111 North Las Virgenes Road, next to the A.E. Wright Middle School.

The district formed a school foundation, the Las Virgenes School Foundation, in the early 1980s to find alternative sources of money. While it raised nearly a million dollars, the foundation died out in the mid-1980s.

The Las Virgenes Educational Foundation was created in the 1980s. During those early years, the LVEF helped promote new technology in the classroom. In 2003, the Foundation stepped forward to help close the district's budget gap caused by cutbacks in California state funding, through a regional fundraising effort. Additionally, the Foundation took over operations of the district's accelerated summer school program, previously operated by a for-profit third party. The Board of the LVEF is designed to be representative of the community, and made up of individuals who can bring unique perspectives and advantages to the organization.

High schools

  • Agoura High School
    Agoura High School
    Agoura High School is a public high school in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District...

  • Calabasas High School
    Calabasas High School
    Calabasas High School is a four-year high school in Calabasas, California, United States.Calabasas High School, which serves Calabasas,and portions of West Hills, Los Angeles, California is one of three high schools in the Las Virgenes Unified School District Calabasas High School is a four-year...

  • Indian Hills High School
    Indian Hills High School (Calabasas, California)
    Indian Hills High School is an alternative/continuation education high school in Agoura Hills, California, United States, serving students in grades 10-12. It is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District....


Middle schools

  • A. E. Wright Middle School
  • Alice C. Stelle Middle School
  • Lindero Canyon Middle School (LCMS)

Elementary schools

  • Bay Laurel Elementary School
  • Chaparral Elementary School
  • Lupin Hill Elementary School
  • Round Meadow Elementary School
  • Sumac Elementary School
  • White Oak Elementary School
  • Willow Elementary School
  • Yerba Buena Elementary School (Y.B.)

Independent study

On June 26, 2006, the Board of Education approved the formation of the district's alternative Independent Study School. The school offers two curricular options: K-12 independent Study where students report to the school site at least once a week to meet with an independent study teacher and K-12 Home Independent Study (Home schooling) which provides a home schooling independent study curriculum.

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