Manhattan Beach Unified School District

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The Manhattan Beach Unified School District is responsible for public education in the city of Manhattan Beach, California. It oversees five elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.

MBUSD serves the city of Manhattan Beach. In addition, residents of Hermosa Beach may choose to attend Redondo Union High School of the Redondo Beach Unified School District or the Mira Costa High School of MBUSD. [1]

The district as a whole received a score of 906 on the 2006 California Academic Performance Index, making it one of California's best performing districts. Each individual school also ranks at the top of its respective category [2]:

School	2006 API Score
Grand View Elementary	954
Meadows Avenue Elementary	947
Pacific Elementary	971
Pennekamp Elementary	963
Robinson Elementary	970
Manhattan Beach Middle	923
Mira Costa High School	852

The school district had a history, under the guidance of Jerry Davis, of ignoring and otherwise failing to accommodate the needs of special education students. One such case was that of Douglas Shulby in 1998, where he was forcibly removed from the Mira Costa campus grounds by law enforcement and school officials due to a failure to accommodate his neurological disability, called Asperger's Syndrome.[3]

Similar efforts have been documented as in Porter v. Manhattan Beach school District. [4]