350,000 Heading Back to School
About 350,000 students are expected to return to classes in Orange County elementary and high schools over the next two weeks. Most of Orange County’s 29 school districts begin classes for the 1988-89 school year after the Labor Day holiday.
Two systems, Yorba Linda Elementary School District and Orange Unified School District, opened Thursday.
Sixteen districts begin classes Tuesday. They are Anaheim City Elementary, Buena Park Elementary, Cypress Elementary, Fountain Valley Elementary, Fullerton Elementary, Fullerton Joint Union High School, Huntington Beach City Elementary, Huntington Beach Union High School, La Habra Elementary, Lowell Elementary Joint School, Ocean View Elementary, Westminster Elementary, Newport-Mesa Unified, Placentia Unified, Saddleback Valley Unified and Santa Ana Unified.
Two districts will open classes Wednesday. They are Magnolia Elementary and Brea-Olinda Unified.
Eight school systems begin classes Thursday. They are Anaheim Union High School District, Centralia Elementary, Capistrano Unified, Garden Grove Unified, Irvine Unified, Laguna Beach Unified, Los Alamitos Unified and Tustin Unified.
The final school system to begin fall classes will be the tiny Savanna Elementary School District in the Anaheim area. It will begin its first day Sept. 12.
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