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Most of the area is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District.^[55] Small portions are within the Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Los Angeles Unified School District

Public elementary schools serving West Hills include:

Capistrano Avenue Elementary School Public Schools

• Enadia Way Elementary School
• Hamlin Street Elementary School
• Haynes Street Elementary School
• Justice Street Elementary School
• Pomelo Drive Elementary School
• Welby Way Elementary School

The former Highlander Road Elementary School was closed in the 1980s, though the site and buildings remain.

Most West Hills residents attend George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills.

Some residents are zoned to Lawrence Middle School and Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth. Some residents are zoned to Columbus Middle School and Canoga Park High School in Canoga Park.

Las Virgenes Unified School District

A small portion of West Hills is zoned to Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Residents are zoned to:

• Round Meadow Elementary School
• Alice C. Stelle Middle School
• Calabasas High School

Private schools

• Chaminade College Preparatory (operated by the Society of Mary), is a private Catholic high school, located near the corner of Woodlake and Cohasset. The West Hills campus was built in 1961. Many students attending Chaminade come from throughout the west San Fernando Valley and beyond.^{[citation needed]}
• Faith Baptist Schools] (Private university-preparatory School)
• Kadima Hebrew Academy (Private Jewish day school)
• Kadima Heschel West Middle School (Private Jewish middle school)
• [[New Community Jewish High School (Private Jewish high school)
• Saint Bernardine of Siena (Catholic elementary and middle school operated by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles) -- located in nearby Woodland Hills

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Nearest Public Elementary Schools Phone number

•· Haynes Elementary School-(818) 716-7310

•· Lockhurst Drive Elementary School-(818) 888-5280

•· Lupin Hill Elementary School-(818) 880-4434

•· Nearest Public Middle Schools:

•· Arthur E. Wright Middle School-(818) 880-4614

•· Christopher Columbus Middle School-(818) 702-1200

•· Nearest Public High Schools:

•· El Camino Real Senior High School-(818) 595-7500

•· Canoga Park Senior High School-(818) 673-1300

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Woodland Hills is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.

It is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, northeast of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. To the north Woodland Hills is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka. Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east-west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, which starts in Woodland Hills and intersects Valley Circle Boulevard.

History

The area was inhabited for around 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Tongva-Fernandeño and Chumash-Venturaño tribes that lived in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills and close to Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) tributary of the Los Angeles River in present day Woodland Hills.^[1][2] The first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring 'Alta California' for Spanish missions and settlements locations. Seeing it from present day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos (Valley of the Oaks).^[3] The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando) was established in 1797 and given the Valley's land, including future Woodland Hills. After the Mexican War of Independence the secularized Mission lands became the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando.

Ownership of the southern half of the Valley: south of present day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills, by Americans began in 1860s. First Isaac Lankershim (as the "San Fernando Farm Homestead Association") in 1869, then Isaac Lankershim's son, James Boon Lankershim, and Isaac Newton Van Nuys (as the "Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company") in 1873,^[4] and finally in the "biggest land transaction ever recorded in Los Angeles County" a syndicate led by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times with Hobart Johnstone Whitley (as the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company) in 1910.^[5]

Victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres (12 km²) in the area from Chandler's group and founded the town of Girard in 1922.^[6] He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees.^[6] His 300 pepper trees forming an arch over Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. are Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972.^[7] Although his early efforts were criticized as providing only dubious facade of economic activity (local lore has it that in order to attract development he erected false store fronts on Ventura Boulevard, for which he spent time in jail), the Girard Golf Course completed in 1925 continues to operate today as the Woodland Hills Country Club, and his scheme was ultimately successful in attracting interest in the community.

In 1941, the community was renamed Woodland Hills. Harry Warner, of the Warner Bros. Studio, bought 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) in the area in the 1940s for a horse ranch, named Warner Ranch. The modern Warner Center commercial zone is named for Harry and features high-rise buildings, hotels, and shopping centers. A major transit hub - the western end of the LACMTA Orange Line - opened here in October 2005.{{fact]}

Climate

Woodland Hills is often very hot during the summer and gets very cool in the winter. In July 2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, hitting 119 °F (48 °C) at Los Angeles Pierce College. The climate is classified as a Csa in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterised by mild rainy winters and hot dry summers. This climate is often referred to as a Mediterranean climate.^[8] The precipitation of Woodland Hills ranges from 17-23 inches annually: the lower amount of annual rainfall is in the lower portions in the Valley, whereas the higher amounts are in the hills surrounding.^[9] Non-natural flora often grown in the area is typical of Mediterranean vegetation: citrus, lavender, rosemary, cypress and many others.^[10

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Mission-style landmark began as stable for film star's horses.
It's the most distinctive building in West Hills, but most people in our neighborhood don't know the fascinating story behind the mission-style buinding at 23130 Sherman Way West Hills, across the street from the Post Office.

Now functioning as the Hidden Chateau and Gardens, where antiques are sold indoors and garden parties and weddings are hosted in a garden and gazebo, the building originally served as a stable on the estate of film star Francis Lederer and his wife Marian

Francis Lederer served as Canoga Park's honorary mayor for 25 years. He lived with Marian in a home that still exist on the hill above the Post Office.

The stable was built between 1934 and 1936 when the area was mostly ranches. In 1967, when the stretch of Sherman Way between Shoup and Platt was completd, the Lederers and their friends the Galeanas converted the stable into an art gallery.

The City of Los Angeles dedicated it as a historical landmark in 1975.

Landmarks

The Lederer estate was the home of actor Francis Lederer (1899-2000), he was the honorary Mayor of Canoga Park for many years. His residence and stables are both protected as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.^[12] The house is distinguished example of Mediterranean and Mission Revival styles architecture in which the interior and exterior detailings are of museum quality. Constructed over a period of years by the owners starting in 1934, with the help of artisan builder John R. Litke. The materials were chosen with the greatest of care and painstakingly employed in such a manner as to make them appear old. The Spanish and Italian furnishings are of particular interest, dating from the 14th Century. The property is to become a public historical resource. The stables became the Canoga Mission Gallery, in Mission-style architecture also designed by Francis Lederer with John R. Litke.^[13] The 1994 Northridge earthquake damaged the house, it's currently undergoing a major renovation. The home is still in the hands of the Lederer family, and is to become a public historical resource.

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Los Angeles Police Department operates two police stations that serve Canoga Park ^[25]:

• West Valley Community Police Station serves residents south of Roscoe Boulevard ^[26]:
• Topanga Community Police Station serves residents north of Roscoe Boulevard ^[27]:

•· The Topanga Community Police Station opened in January 2009. The police department named the station after a village in the Tongva language of the historically local Tongva-Fernandeño Native Americans tribe. The department originally planned to name it the Northwest Station, but residents preferred a name linking to the area's history.^[28] Prior to the opening of the Topanga station, the Devonshire Community Police Station served that section.^[29

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TOPANGA COMMUNITY POLICE STATION'S OPEN HOUSE

CRIME PREVENTION TIPS! Fun, INFORMATION AND STATION TOURS!

Topanga Community Police Station hosted it's second annual Open House event on March 27/2010 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm!! There was opportunities to meet officers who patrol your community, West Hills,Woodland Hills,Canoga Park, and Winnetka Neighborhoods. Information about youth programs, station tours and much more!!

(21501 Schoenborn Street, Canoga Park. Cross streets are Canoga Avenue and Schoenborn Street).

The station is relatively new and modern. It brings a sense of security to the neighborhoods that it serves. More police presence usually brings lower crime rates.

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