ABC Unified School District
School district in California
| ABC Unified School District | |
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| Location | |
Cerritos, California Southeastern Los Angeles County | |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | K-12 and Adult School |
| Established | 1965 |
| Superintendent | Toan Nguyen |
| Schools | 30 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
The ABC Unified School District is a school district that is based in Cerritos, California, United States.
ABCUSD serves the cities of Artesia, most of Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, the portion of Lakewood east of the San Gabriel River, as well as tiny portions of Long Beach, Norwalk, La Mirada, and Santa Fe Springs[1] (the ABC portion of La Mirada contains only business areas, no residents[citation needed]).
"ABC" stands for Artesia (founded in 1875), Bloomfield (founded in 1885), and Carmenita (founded in 1902), three districts which were unified in 1965.[2][3]
List of schools
Adult schools
ABC Adult School is a public local adult school, established by the ABC Unified School District and headquartered in Cerritos, California.
Continuation schools
- Tracy High Continuation School (Cerritos)
7-12 schools
- Whitney High School (Cerritos)
High schools
- Artesia High School (Lakewood)
- Cerritos High School (Cerritos)
- Gahr High School (Cerritos)
Middle schools
- Carmenita Middle School (Cerritos)
- Fedde Middle School (Hawaiian Gardens)
- Haskell Middle School (Cerritos)
- Ross Middle School (Artesia)
- Tetzlaff Middle School (Cerritos)
- Bloomfield Middle School (Cerritos) is proposed.
Elementary schools
- Aloha Health Medical Academy (Lakewood) -
- Bloomfield Elementary School (Hawaiian Gardens) (closed in the 1980s)
- Bragg Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Burbank Elementary School (Artesia)
- Cabrillo Lane Elementary School (Cerritos) (Closed)
- Carver Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Cerritos Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Elliott Elementary School (Artesia)
- Furgeson Elementary School (Hawaiian Gardens)
- Gonsalves Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Hawaiian Elementary School (Hawaiian Gardens)
- Juarez Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Kennedy Elementary School (Artesia)
- Leal Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Melbourne Elementary School (Lakewood) (Cerritos)
- Niemes Elementary School (Artesia)
- Nixon Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Palms Elementary School (Lakewood)
- Stowers Elementary School (Cerritos)
- Willow Elementary School (Lakewood)
- Wittmann Elementary School (Cerritos)
Nixon Elementary
| Patricia Nixon Elementary School | |
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 Aerial view of Nixon's campus | |
| Address | |
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19600 Jacob Avenue Cerritos , California | |
| Coordinates | 33°51′09″N 118°04′34″W / 33.852400°N 118.075980°W / 33.852400; -118.075980 |
| Information | |
| School type | Public elementary |
| Founded | 1973 |
| School district | ABC Unified School District |
| Principal | Dr. Tracy |
| Grades | K-6 |
| Enrollment | 670 |
| Mascot | Jaguar |
The Patricia Nixon Elementary School is located in Cerritos. It was built in 1973 and has grades kindergarten through sixth. The school is named after the late First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon. Patricia Nixon Elementary School was recognized as a California Distinguished School in 2004 and 2008.
Board of education
Greater Los Angeles portal
Schools portal
ABC Unified School District's Board of Education members are elected by geographical district, to a four-year term. The elections were held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd-numbered years until the 2017 election. Effective with the November 2020 US General election, elections are held in even-numbered years.
References
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Los Angeles County, CA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. pp. 10-12 (PDF pp. 11-13/19). Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ^ "History/Info Archived May 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine." ABC Unified School District. Retrieved on September 27, 2009.
- ^ "A Pictorial History of Our Community Archived August 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine." ABC Unified School District. December 2001.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to ABC Unified School District.
- District website
- List of school districts in Los Angeles County, California
- Sacramento Bee: LA judge nixes dismissal of ex-principal lawsuit [permanent dead link]
- Long Beach Press Telegram: Former principal's lawsuit claims she was demoted for reporting alleged death threats
- Los Cerritos Newspaper: Court Rules ABC School District Fabricated Evidence Used to Demote Former Stowers Principal
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ABC Unified School District
- Artesia High School
- Cerritos High School
- Gahr High School
- Tracy High School
- Whitney High School
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