page_title: Los Angeles Unified School District
section_title: Areas served
hierarchical_section_title: Los Angeles Unified School District / Areas served
caption_attribution_description: English: Maywood Academy High School
context_page_description: Los Angeles Unified School District is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the largest public school system in California and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. During the 2016–2017 school year, LAUSD served around 734,641 students, including 107,142 students at independent charter schools and 69,867 adult students. During the same school year, it had 26,556 teachers and 33,635 other employees. It is the second largest employer in Los Angeles County, after the county government. The total school district operating budget for 2016–2017 was $7.59 billion.
  The school district consists of Los Angeles and all or portions of several adjoining Southern California cities. LAUSD has its own police force, the Los Angeles School Police Department, which was established in 1948 to provide police services for LAUSD schools. The LAUSD enrolls a third of the preschoolers in Los Angeles County, and operates almost as many buses as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
context_section_description: LAUSD serves all of the following communities:
  Bell
  Cudahy
  Florence
  Gardena
  Huntington Park
  Lomita
  Los Angeles – Including, but not limited to:
  List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles
  excluding a small portion of West Hills which is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District
  Some areas of Los Angeles with Beverly Hills addresses, i.e. Beverly Hills Post Office, are located in LAUSD
  Marina del Rey
  Maywood
  San Fernando
  Topanga
  Universal City
  Vernon
  View Park
  Walnut Park
  West Athens
  Westmont
  West Hollywood
  
   
  and portions of the following communities:
   
  Carson
  Commerce
  East Los Angeles (other parts of East Los Angeles are served by Montebello Unified School District)
  Hawthorne
  Inglewood
  Long Beach
  Monterey Park
  Rancho Palos Verdes (most other parts of Rancho Palos Verdes are served by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District)
  South Gate (eastern portion of South Gate is served by the Paramount Unified School District)
  West Compton
  Willowbrook
caption: Maywood Academy High School
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