The Action for Healthy Kids and USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service have honored Laguna Beach Unified School District with the Small or Rural Food Authority Breakfast Trailblazer Award and the Small or Rural School Food Authority Lunch Trailblazer Award for improving the nutritional quality of school meals. 

LBUSD has been named a 2024 California Green Ribbon School District Sustainability Honoree by the California Department of Education for the district's environmental excellence and demonstrated achievement of the three pillars of the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools program.

LBUSD was honored this month as one of 975 school districts across the nation to receive the 2024 Best Communities for Music Education Award from the NAMM Foundation. This award acknowledges districts and schools for their exceptionally high commitment to and accessibility of music education, emphasizing the importance of integrating music education into a comprehensive educational framework.

During its March 14 meeting, the LBUSD Board of Education awarded contracts for design services for the modernization of the Laguna Beach High School pool and classroom upgrades at El Morro and Top of the World Elementary School, projects identified in the district’s Ten-Year Facilities Master Plan.

LBUSD announced today that Izzie Tran, a student at Thurston Middle School, has won first place in the 25th Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest.