Westminster School District
| Westminster School District | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
14121 Cedarwood Street
, Orange County, California, 92683United States | |
| Coordinates | 33°45′27″N 117°59′40″W / 33.7574°N 117.9945°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | Pre-K through 8th |
| Established | 1872 |
| President | Jeremy Khalaf |
| Vice-president | Khanh Nguyen |
| Superintendent | Gunn Marie Hansen, Ph.D. |
| Asst. superintendent(s) | Rich Montgomery |
| Business administrator | Manuel Cardoso Jr. |
| Director of education | Richard J. Noblett, Ed.D. |
| Schools | 17
|
| NCES District ID | 0642150 |
| Students and staff | |
| Enrollment | 9,338 (2016-17) |
| Teachers | 394.06 FTE |
| Student–teacher ratio | 23.7 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
| Location of district office (blue map pin) within Orange County (shown in orange) | |
The Westminster School District (WSD) is an elementary school district in Orange County, California, established in 1872 and headquartered in Westminster. It operates schools in Westminster, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, and Midway City.
It operates elementary and middle schools. High school students attend schools in the Huntington Beach Union High School District as well as in the Garden Grove Unified School District.
Racial segregation and discrimination against Mexican-American students by the school district resulted in a 1947 federal court case, Mendez v. Westminster, which ordered desegregation of the district's schools, so that Mexican and non-Mexican children attended the same schools. The plaintiffs had argued that Mexican-Americans were white and therefore should be allowed to attend the schools reserved for white children. The courts ruled that even if the students were not white, public schools "must be open to all children by unified school association regardless of lineage", except when segregation was explicitly authorized by state law.