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The Laguna Beach Early Learning Community Task Force will host a special screening event on Monday, February 10, for No Small Matter, the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for change in America today: early childhood education.  

The LBUSD Board of Education has transitioned to electronic agenda management system, BoardDocs, to improve the governance process, ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and enhance collaboration. Thursday’s regularly scheduled school board meeting on January 16 at 6 p.m. is the first with an agenda compiled using BoardDocs.

LBUSD is one of 250 school districts in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the 10th Annual AP® District Honor Roll. Since 2017, LBUSD has increased the number of students participating in AP while also increasing or maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher.

The latest data shows the percentage of children entering Laguna Beach schools "kindergarten ready" continues to rise. Locally, 65.8 percent of students in the Laguna Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) are entering school ready for kindergarten*, higher than the Orange County rate of 52.9 percent.

It has been nearly a decade since the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. This article takes a look at the importance of the role that school nutrition services play in the health and well-being of all students. 

I am so proud of ALL of the 5th grade students who ran for Student Council office!  Their campaign posters were fantastic and they all demonstrated that they want to be leaders at our school.

In 2018, data from the CDC and FDA showed that one in five high-school students and one in 20 middle-school students used a vaping product within the past month. There are three primary components of the anti-tobacco/vaping education in LBUSD. These are aligned with best-practice public health models for reducing harmful risk behaviors.