Hermosa Won’t Join Unification Drive
Trustees in the Hermosa Beach Elementary School District voted Wednesday night to remain a one-school operation and not join the districts in Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach in their unification drives.
The Hermosa Beach trustees had favored total unification, in which the South Bay Union High School District would merge with the three elementary districts in the beach cities to create one 10,000-student district. But earlier this year, when the plan did not receive support from the other districts, Hermosa trustees said they wanted to maintain their own district.
That vote was reaffirmed Wednesday when the Hermosa trustees voted to remain an elementary school district and contract with one or both of the high schools in the South Bay district.
Redondo Beach trustees are seeking to create a kindergarten-through-12th-grade district with Redondo Beach Union High School. Manhattan Beach trustees favor a K-12 district in their city with Mira Costa High School.
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