District News

The La Cañada Unified School District administrative team has selected Mr. Brent Kuszyk to receive the 2025 Golden Apple Award. Sponsored by the Association of California School Administrators, the award honors outstanding community leaders throughout the state.

La Canada High School (LCHS) and LCHS 7/8 have received five honors from the American Scholastic‬ Press Association (ASPA) Scholastic Yearbook and Magazine Awards, including First Place honors in the‬‭ Junior/Senior High Schools Large Schools Category for the 2024‬‭ Omega‬‭ yearbook: “Remember When”,‬ The Spartan‬‭ , LCHS’s newspaper, and‬‭ The Ink and The Iris‬‭ , the school’s literary arts magazine–all‬ student-designed and developed publications.‬

La Cañada Unified School District is now accepting pre-enrollment for the 2025-26 school year! Resident families looking to enroll new students should complete the Aeries pre-enrollment process and gather all required documents to finalize enrollment.

The Cañada Auxiliary of Professionals, on behalf of the Assistance League of Flintridge, presented a $28,000 donation to LCFEF to fund its “Support Our Teachers and Staff After the Eaton Fires” campaign.

Monday night, fire crews descended upon the LCHS campus and camped in the gym to escape the cold winter night. Community members turned out as well to say thank you with dinner, dessert, and snacks. Thank you to the firefighters and thank you to the LC community! Click to view the photos.

Our LCUSD family and community have expressed needs for support and wanted to offer support. To assist in that effort, we've built a webpage with resources for families and staff affected by the fires as well as a landing page to see how you can help.

Congratulations to the Spartan Boys Varsity Football team, who were chosen as a runner-up in the SoFi Game Changers Contest. This award nets them a $10,000 prize for new equipment. Congrats, team!

Our three elementary schools have started a campaign with families around waiting to get smartphones until the end of 8th grade. Learn more about the program and why this is important for our students. https://www.waituntil8th.org/

On February 21, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., an LCUSD “Budget Brunch and Learn.” At this special meeting, District Staff will walk the Governing Board through the intricacies of the current district finances, State funding projections, and the structural deficit, proposing remedies and reductions given the pending fiscal crisis. This meeting will be live-streamed on YouTube

The PTA's Founders' Day honors on March 14 recognized parents and staff who made significant contributions to schools.