Anaheim Union High School District

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Anaheim Union High School District
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Address
501 Crescent Way
Anaheim
, California , 92803
United States
Coordinates 33°50′20.27″N117°56′56.03″W / 33.8389639°N 117.9488972°W / 33.8389639; -117.9488972
District information
Type Public
MottoUnlimited You
Grades 7th-12th [1]
Established1898 (1898) [2]
SuperintendentMichael Matsuda [3]
Asst. superintendent(s)Dr. Jaron Fried,
Dr. Nancy Nien,
Brad Jackson [3]
Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Schools19
Budget$566,368,409 (2022-2023)
NCES District ID 0602630 [1]
Students and staff
Students29,183 (2020–2021) [1]
Teachers1,203.57 (FTE) [1]
Staff1,294.22 (FTE) [1]
Student–teacher ratio24.25:1 [1]
Athletic conference CIF Southern Section
Other information
Website www.auhsd.us

The Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) is a public school district serving portions of the Orange County cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma, and Stanton. It oversees seven junior high schools (7-8), seven high schools (9-12), one secondary selective magnet school (Oxford Academy), one special education school, and two alternative education sites.

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Its superintendent, Dr. Elizabeth Novack, was fired in December 2013 without public explanation. [4] The Board of Trustees appointed Michael Matsuda, the district's former BTSA Coordinator who also currently serves as Secretary on the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees. [5]

The school district has gained brief national notoriety twice: once in 1968 when members of the organization Mothers Organized for Moral Stability, inspired by the information in the pamphlet "Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?", flooded a school board meeting and demanded that a course in sex education at the school be suspended, [6] and again in 1978 when it banned the novels Silas Marner and Gone with the Wind from the school curriculum. [7] The books and the course have long since been reinstated.

In 2024, the school district has received backlash from the local community as a result of its decision for a mass reduction in force (RIF), with the intent to lay off 10% of teachers (119 out of 1,259) increasing to now 253 teachers district-wide. [8] [9] [10] In response to recent backlash, Michael Matsuda claims the layoffs were because of the expiration of federal funding at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and a drop in student enrollment. [9] As of May 2024, the district has released a joint statement with the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association that they’ve rescinded all RIF notifications. [11]

High schools

Former high schools

Los Alamitos High School (Established 1967, was in the Anaheim Union High School District until 1980 when it left to become part of the new Los Alamitos Unified School District.

Western High School (Established 1957, closed in 2025 to merge with Orangeview Junior High School to become Orangeview Western 7-12 School)

From 1898 through 1954, Anaheim Union High School was a four-year high school. Starting in the 1954-55 school year, AUHSD 7th through 12th grade education was split between three-year junior high school (grades 7-9) and three-year high school (10-12). This would continue until the 1980-81 school year, when junior high schools became two-year (7-8) and high schools became four-year (9-12) institutions.

Junior high schools

Former junior high schools

Mascots

Feeder districts

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Anaheim Union High". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved March 5, 2022.
  2. ↑ "AUHSD Brochure" (PDF). Anaheim Union High School District. Retrieved August 4, 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Anaheim Union High School District Organizational Chart" (PDF). Anaheim Union High School District. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Search to Begin for New Anaheim Schools Superintendent". Voice of OC . Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ "NOCCCD - Board Biographies". NOCCCD. Archived from the original on June 30, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ Josh Corngold (2008). Toleration, Parents' Rights, and Children's Autonomy: The Case of Sex Education. ProQuest. pp. 149–150. ISBN   978-0-549-85273-5 . Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ Ockerbloom, John Mark. "Banned Books Online". The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Union Protects the Rights of Members During Layoff Hearings". California Teachers Association. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  9. 1 2 "Rallies decrying layoffs of Anaheim school teachers continue as dozens await rescission letters". ABC7 Los Angeles. April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  10. ↑ Perera, Nathan. "Students respond to AUHSD decision to lay off teachers". The Gamut. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  11. ↑ Perera, Nathan. "ALL RIFS RESCINDED". The Gamut. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Final preparations for combining Orangeview Junior High with Western High, forming a new 7-12 school". Orange County Register. July 19, 2025. Retrieved November 26, 2025.
  13. ↑ "About McAuliffe Archived 2019-08-29 at the Wayback Machine ." Christa McAuliffe Middle School. Retrieved on December 3, 2018.
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