The Fullerton School District is a school district in

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, with its headquarters in Fullerton. The school district serves the city of Fullerton, as well as small portions of

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, Brea, and

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. It has schools from grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. High school students are transferred to the

Fullerton Joint Union High School District Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD), founded in 1893 is a school district in Orange County, California that serves a fifty-square-mile area which includes the cities of Fullerton, La Habra, and small sections of Anaheim, Buena Pa ...

Schools

K-8 schools: * Beechwood K-8 * Fisler K-8 Junior high schools * Ladera Vista * Nicolas *

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Elementary schools: * Acacia * Commonwealth * Fern Drive * Golden Hill * Hermosa Drive * Laguna Road * Maple ** It was established in 1924, making it the oldest school in Fullerton School District. Its initial building had one story. A 1933 earthquake caused damage, and the building from that point on was one story. In the 1970s area courts required school districts to move minority children into other schools as part of

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, and the school district closed the school in 1972. From that point toward, it served as a preschool and a community center. A neighborhood committee circa the 1990s advocated for the school to reopen as the district was finding its schools to be overcrowded. It reopened with kindergarten in 1996 and added a new grade level each year. Jerry Hicks of the ''

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'' wrote that the community wanted the school back even though it meant that

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would increase. * Orangethorpe * Pacific Drive * Raymond * Richman * Rolling Hills * Sunset Lane * Valencia Park * Woodcrest

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External links

* School districts in Orange County, California Education in Fullerton, California Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing {{California-school-stub