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LBUSD serves most of Long Beach , all of the city of Signal Hill , and portions of Lakewood , and Paramount , as well as Avalon and Two Harbors on Catalina Island . SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND SINGLE GENDER CLASSES On , 1994 , SB 1269 the School Uniform Law was approved by the Governor of California to support schools that adopt a school-wide uniform policy, which also allowed parents to opt-out of the policy. At LBUSD, roughly 2% of the students opt-out of the uniform policy. [http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/article_3.asp Since starting the uniform policy, LBUSD found assaults dropped by two-thirds, suspensions dropped by almost a third, vandalism dropped, attendance improved, and test scores increased. President Bill Clinton mentioned LBUSD's uniform policy in his 1996 State Of The Union Address . The uniform policy enjoys strong community and parental support. Numerous other large urban districts have now adopted school uniform policies. {Link without Title} Some researchers, including David Brunsma of the Sociology Department of University Of Missouri-Columbia , have said that the benefits ascribed to the implementation of the LBUSD uniform policy were logically attributable to other factors; such as increased school security, collateral attendance enforcement efforts, and in-class programs designed to bolster sagging test scores. {Link without Title} LBUSD now has two high schools, Wilson Classical High School and Millikan High School , that require school uniforms as well. {Link without Title} In 1999 , Jefferson Leadership Academies became the first public middle school in the United States to convert entirely to single gender classes. Only a few dozen more schools have followed this trend, mostly because of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act , which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded programs The school has plans to discontinue the program after scheduling conflicts and disappointing test scores [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5247847 . DISTRICT AWARDS LBUSD was the winner of the second annual $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education (in the Broad Foundation also awarded 55 Long Beach Unified School District seniors $500,000 in scholarships as Broad Prize Scholars {Link without Title} . UNUSUAL SCHOOLS , but Two Harbors residents and visitors raised enough money to keep the school open {Link without Title} . Hi-Hill Outdoor School (informally known as Camp Hi-Hill) is a former Girl Scout camp on 13 acres of land in Angeles National Forest near Mount Wilson owned by the district. The camp allows urban students to experience a week of outdoor education. The first class of sixth graders was on April 19 , 1948 Now it is fifth graders who traditionally spend a week at Camp Hi-Hill [http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/hihill/index.html . SECESSION MOVEMENTS Because students in the city of Lakewood are currently divided between four different school districts ( ABC Unified School District , Bellflower Unified School District , Paramount Unified School District and LBUSD), there is an active movement to break away from those districts and form a new Lakewood Unified School District. After gathering the required number of petition signatures and an LA County review, the issue went before the California State Board Of Education . The board rejected the petition on February 8 , 2001 because the board said the proposed district failed to meet four of the state's nine criteria for new district formation. With that setback, the most current plans ( As Of 2005 ) are to try to merge those areas of Lakewood served by Paramount into either the Bellflower or Long Beach Unified School Districts. {Link without Title} 2000S POPULATION DECREASE In the 2000s, LBUSD's population started to decline despite the growth of the city which is mostly within the district boundaries {Link without Title} . LIST OF SCHOOLS Primary schools
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