Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is a school district

School district

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 headquartered in Santa Monica

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

, California

California

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, United States

United States

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. The district serves the cities of Santa Monica and Malibu. It has ten elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools, an adult high school

Adult high school

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, and an alternative school

Alternative school

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.

Until the 1980s, students from Malibu were required to bus a long distance into Santa Monica

Santa Mônica

Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...

 for grades 10-12, but the former junior high school there has since become Malibu High School

Malibu High School

Malibu High School is a public secondary school in Malibu, California for middle school and high school . As one of three high schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, MHS serves the Malibu and Santa Monica communities and by inter-district permit, the greater Los Angeles area...

.

K-8 schools

• SMASH Alternative School
  Santa Monica Alternative School House
  The Santa Monica Alternative School House is an alternative school in Southern California that was founded in 1973 to emphasize "non-authoritarian, non-competitive, non-sexist methods". Originally serving grades Kindergarten through 12th, SMASH downgraded to a Kindergarten through middle school...
  
   (Santa Monica
  Santa Mônica
  Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  )

Middle schools

Zoned

• John Adams Middle School (Santa Monica)
• Lincoln Middle School
  Lincoln Middle School (Santa Monica, California)
  Lincoln Middle School, located in Santa Monica, California, currently serves around 1150-1200 students in grades sixth through eighth with 3 administrators, tens of certificated teachers and twenty-five classified staff members. Most of the students come from three feeder schools in the area...
  
   (Santa Monica
  Santa Mônica
  Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  )

Elementary schools

• Juan Cabrillo Elementary School (Malibu)
• Edison Language Academy (Santa Monica)
• Franklin Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• Grant Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• McKinley Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• John Muir Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School (Malibu)
• Will Rogers Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• Roosevelt Elementary School (Santa Monica)
• Webster Elementary School (Malibu)

External links

• Santa Monica Malibu School District