The following is a submission from SMMUSD. Image: Screenshot from construction video provided by SMMUSD.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) has announced Ocean Park School House as the new school name for the neighborhood school in Ocean Park. The Board of Education approved the school name at its Oct. 7 regular board meeting.
Ocean Park School House replaces the former John Muir Elementary/Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH) facility, located at 2526 6th Street, which closed in June 2022. The campus has been remodeled through improvements funded by Measures SMS and QS.
SMMUSD will relocate several schools over winter break in preparation for the spring semester, and over summer break in preparation for the 2026-2027 school year:
● Olympic High School (Olympic) and the Off Campus Learning Center (OCLC) will move from Santa Monica College to Ocean Park School House over winter break and will hold classes there during the spring semester.
● SMASH will remain at the Michelle and Barack Obama Center for Inquiry and Exploration (Obama Center) for the fall and spring semesters.
● During summer break, Olympic and OCLC will move to the main building of the Obama Center and will remain there for the 2026-2027 school year.
● SMASH will move to Ocean Park School House over summer break and will welcome students to the newly modernized campus at the start of the 2026-2027 school year.
The new Ocean Park School House campus will feature modernized classrooms, a new parking lot with drop-off and pick-up zones, a new administration building to improve security and a new innovation lab for project-based learning.
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