Fullerton

Fullerton, CA

Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. Located 22 miles southeast of metropolitan Los Angeles, Fullerton is a full-service city renowned for its unique mix of residential, commercial and industrial, educational, and cultural environments which provide an outstanding quality of life for both residents and businesses alike.

Fullerton, one of the largest cities in Orange County, is a community with a strong sense of tradition, one that treasures its historic past as it prepares to meet the challenges of its future.

Education

Public schools

There are five public high schools within the city limits, all part of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District:

  • Sunny Hills High School.
  • Fullerton Union High School. The oldest high school in Orange County, it is the home of historic Plummer Auditorium and the Academy of the Arts magnet program.
  • Troy High School (public magnet school).
  • La Sierra High School
  • La Vista High School

There are three public junior high schools, enrolling grades 7-8:

  • Ladera Vista
  • Nicolas
  • D. Russell Parks Junior High School.

Fullerton has seventeen public elementary schools enrolling grades K-6, and in some cases K-8:

  • Acacia, Beechwood (K-8)
  • Commonwealth
  • Fern Drive
  • Fisler (K-8)
  • Golden Hill
  • Hermosa Drive
  • Laguna Road
  • Maple
  • Orangethorpe
  • Pacific Drive
  • Raymond
  • Richman
  • Rolling Hills
  • Sunset Lane
  • Valencia Park
  • Woodcrest.

Catholic schools

Fullerton’s Catholic schools are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.

  • Annunciation Catholic School, formed in 2005 by the merger of Saint Mary’s Catholic School, the oldest Catholic school in the city, with Saint Philip Benizi Catholic School.
  • Saint Justin
  • Saint Juliana
  • Rosary High School (all-girls’)

Other private schools

  • Berkeley School, Academics and the Arts (K-6), 306 N. Pomona Avenue
  • IvyCrest Montessori Private School, located where Mayor Hale once lived in the early 1900s
  • Eastside Christian School
  • West Fullerton Christian School, 2353 W. Valencia Drive, Fullerton, California

Postsecondary institutions

  • California State University, Fullerton
  • Fullerton College
  • Western State University College of Law
  • Hope International University
  • Southern California College of Optometry.

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