Elementary schools close to UCLA campus (August, Westwood: apartments, neighborhood, school district)

[shark1]

Hello,

I will be starting medical school at UCLA this coming August and I need to find a good elementary for my kids, 9 and 10. We are planning to live on campus, so I'm looking for schools in close proximity.

[disgruntled la native]

Private or public? I think Warner Ave elementary is one of the closest to UCLA and is a pretty good public school. On the actual campus is University Elementary school but it is a private school.

[BRinSM]

westwood is a very nice and upscale neighborhood, so any of the elementary schools near the ucla campus should be rated very highly. considering you have a family though, are you sure your housing will be on the actually campus in westwood? my understanding was that family housing was offsite, possibly at the university village apartments near national blvd and the 405. having said that, even if you end up living there, the nearby schools (mar vista and clover ave.) are also rated highly, so you should be fine.

[Cloudwalker]

Warner Ave has a good reputation. UCLA Lab School, but check it out as it's a different approach to education from a regular school and there are tuition fees. St Timothy's on Pico has a great reputation if you are looking for a small (200 students) parochial school. It's a Catholic school, but I know several non-Catholics who send there kids there for the hands-on, quality educational experience. I also know several people who had a good experience at Westwood Charter on Overland.

[yby1]

Community Magnet Charter is very good.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

Private or public? I think Warner Ave elementary is one of the closest to UCLA and is a pretty good public school. On the actual campus is University Elementary school but it is a private school.

Is this it? https://www.labschool.ucla.edu/ If this is University Elementary School and it's operated by UCLA it would technically be a public school but one not operated by or affiliated with LAUSD.

[hjt123]

I went to Warner. It's very good, but the PTA are very involved which can lead to a lot of favoritism. Kissing teachers' ass was a full time job for the mothers at that school. Though I imagine that's fairly common throughout most affluent elementary schools.

[disgruntled la native]

Originally Posted by Vicman

Is this it? https://www.labschool.ucla.edu/ If this is University Elementary School and it's operated by UCLA it would technically be a public school but one not operated by or affiliated with LAUSD.

Yeah it's called UCLA Lab School now, I just knew it growing up as UES. Anyway, fine, technically it is a public school, but it costs the parent tuition to attend, while LAUSD (and any other public school district) does not.

[disgruntled la native]

Originally Posted by hjt123

I went to Warner. It's very good, but the PTA are very involved which can lead to a lot of favoritism. Kissing teachers' ass was a full time job for the mothers at that school. Though I imagine that's fairly common throughout most affluent elementary schools.

Yeah but that's the case at any affluent Westside school. Better to have school politics and helicopter parents than underperformance and crime.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

Yeah it's called UCLA Lab School now, I just knew it growing up as UES. Anyway, fine, technically it is a public school, but it costs the parent tuition to attend, while LAUSD (and any other public school district) does not.

I do find it very strange that it's charging significant tuition. Do university lab schools in other parts of the country charge significant tuition?