Santa Monica Schools

The district maintains eight public elementary schools in Santa Monica:

•  Edison Language Academy
•  Franklin Elementary School
• Grant Elementary School
• John Muir Elementary School
• McKinley Elementary School
• Roosevelt Elementary School
• Will Rogers Learning Community

The district maintains two public middle schools in Santa Monica:

• John Adams Middle School
• Lincoln Middle School

The district maintains two high schools in Santa Monica:

• Olympic High School
• Santa Monica High School

• Carlthorp School
• Santa Monica Montessori School
• Crossroads School
• Saint Monica Catholic Elementary School
• Concord High School
• Pacifica Christian High
• St. Anne Catholic School
• Saint Monica Catholic High School
• New Roads School

• Santa Monica College is a junior college originally founded in 1929. Many SMC graduates transfer to the University of California system. It occupies 35 acres and enrolls 30,000 students annually.
• The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, associated with the RAND Corporation, is the U.S.’s largest producer of public policy PhDs.
• The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles – is also located in Santa Monica near the Santa Monica Airport.
• L.A. Leadership College, an online institution, for underprivileged young adults, is located in Santa Monica.

Within a 22-mile radius from Santa Monica include:

• Santa Monica College
• Loyola Marymount University
• Mount St. Mary’s College
• Pepperdine University
• California State University, Northridge
• California State University, Los Angeles
• University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
• University of Southern Californa (USC)
• West Los Angeles College
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Los Angeles City College
• Los Angeles Southwest College
• Los Angeles Valley College.

The Santa Monica Public Library consists of a Main Library in the downtown area, plus three neighborhood branches: Fairview, Montana Avenue and Ocean Park.