Westminster School District

The Westminster School District is a school district in Orange County, California, headquartered in Westminster.[1] It operates schools in Westminster, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, and Midway City.[2]

It operates elementary and middle schools. High school students go to schools in the Huntington Beach Union High School District.[3]

List of Schools

Child Development School

Elementary Schools

Middle Schools

Closed Schools

Historic References

An important precursor to the desegregation of schools across the nation, the Westminster School District was the defendant in the groundbreaking litigation Mendez v. Westminster. Five Mexican-American families sued on behalf of thousands of students who were forced to attend substandard schools within the district. Ultimately, the court ordered the school district to allow students of Mexican descent to attend schools that had been previously reserved for only white students.

The case proved to be an important training-ground for Brown v. Bd. of Ed. Thurgood Marshall authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the NAACP in favor of integration and later argued the merits before the Supreme Court in Brown. After the Mendez case, Governor Earl Warren led the call for full integration of California public schools. Additionally, the untimely death of Chief Justice Vinson during the Court's recess and the ascendancy of Earl Warren to the position of Chief Justice made the favorable ruling in Brown possible.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us." Westminster School District. Retrieved on March 27, 2011 "Westminster School District 14121 Cedarwood Avenue Westminster, CA 92683"
  2. ↑ "About Us." Westminster School District. Retrieved on June 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "About Us." Huntington Beach Union High School District. Retrieved on June 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ westminster-ca.gov

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