Anaheim Union High School District
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 eight junior high schools (7-8), eight high schools (9-12), and one non-magnet, secondary selective school, Oxford Academy (7-12).
| Anaheim Union High School District | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
501 Crescent Way
Anaheim , California, 92803United States | |
| Coordinates | 33°50′20.27″N 117°56′56.03″W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Unlimited You |
| Grades | 7th-12th |
| Established | 1898 |
| Superintendent | Michael Matsuda |
| Asst. superintendent(s) | Dr. Jaron Fried, Dr. Nancy Nien, Brad Jackson |
| Accreditation(s) | Western Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Schools | 22 |
| Budget | $566,368,409 (2022-2023) |
| NCES District ID | 0602630 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 29,183 (2020–2021) |
| Teachers | 1,203.57 (FTE) |
| Staff | 1,294.22 (FTE) |
| Student–teacher ratio | 24.25:1 |
| Athletic conference | CIF Southern Section |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
Its superintendent, Dr. 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.