Anaheim Union High School District


The Anaheim Union High School District 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, seven high schools, one secondary selective magnet school, one special education school, and two alternative education sites.
Its superintendent, Elizabeth Novack, was fired in December 2013 without public explanation. 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.
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, and again in 1978 when it banned the novels Silas Marner and Gone with the Wind from the school curriculum. 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, with the intent to lay off 10% of teachers increasing to now 253 teachers district-wide. 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. As of May 2024, the district has released a joint statement with the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association that they’ve rescinded all RIF notifications.
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High schools

Former high schools

Los Alamitos High 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 and three-year high school. This would continue until the 1980-81 school year, when junior high schools became two-year and high schools became four-year institutions.

Junior high schools

  • Ball Junior High School
  • Brookhurst Junior High School
  • Dale Junior High School
  • Lexington Junior High School
  • Orangeview Junior High School
  • South Junior High School
  • Walker Junior High School

Former junior high schools

  • Apollo Junior High School
  • Crescent Junior High School
  • John C. Fremont Junior High School
  • La Palma Junior High School
  • Oxford Junior High School
  • Trident Junior High School
  • Orangeview Junior High School
  • Pine Junior High School and Oak Junior High School were formerly in Anaheim Union High School District until 1980, but are now in the Los Alamitos Unified School District.

Mascots

Feeder districts