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The Anacapa School community provides a safe, nurturing, and positive learning environment where students are encouraged to reach their full potential. All students are challenged academically and feel a personal connection to the school. Students are taught to understand the importance of accepting others and to be responsible members of our culturally diverse society. Through example, the Anacapa staff teaches students the positive resolve of maintaining personal integrity. The entire school community takes pride in the reality that, working together, we can succeed and make a difference.
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![Ventura Unified School District Invites Community Input Through LCAP Survey]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1770056381/venturausdorg/jwlcs1ryc3ew7gc4mber/LCAPimageforpostwebsite.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1770056381/venturausdorg/jwlcs1ryc3ew7gc4mber/LCAPimageforpostwebsite.jpg","width":300}])
Ventura Unified School District (VUSD) is inviting families, students, staff, and community members to participate in its annual Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Survey, an important tool used to help guide district priorities for the upcoming school year.
![EP Foster Elementary School Launches Monthly Food Pantry for Families]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1769100120/venturausdorg/vcclxryb14oi846ir9gz/fooddonation.jpg","width":2119}])
EP Foster Elementary School is expanding its support for families with the launch of a new monthly Food Pantry, created specifically to serve the EP Foster school community. This initiative is made possible through a partnership with Food Share of Ventura County and the school’s OCEAN Afterschool Program.
![VENTURA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT APPOINTS MEMBERS TO SCHOOL CLOSURES ADVISORY COMMITTEE]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1769628649/venturausdorg/ibea0kt7zlveg7txm0xq/Schoolclosureadvisorycommitteemembersselectedimage.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1769628649/venturausdorg/ibea0kt7zlveg7txm0xq/Schoolclosureadvisorycommitteemembersselectedimage.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1769628649/venturausdorg/ibea0kt7zlveg7txm0xq/Schoolclosureadvisorycommitteemembersselectedimage.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1769628649/venturausdorg/ibea0kt7zlveg7txm0xq/Schoolclosureadvisorycommitteemembersselectedimage.jpg","width":1080}])
At a Special Meeting held on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, the Ventura Unified School District (VUSD) Board of Education approved the members of the School Closures Advisory Committee, marking an important next step in the District’s data-based and community-centered process to evaluate whether any school sites should be considered for closure as early as the 2027–2028 school year. Read for more information.
![VENTURA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BEGINS SCHOOL CLOSURES ADVISORY COMMITTEE PROCESS]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1767827851/venturausdorg/vqxgtnfkrbtuw3nmecgt/SCHOOLCLOSUREADVISORYCOMMITTEE.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1767827851/venturausdorg/vqxgtnfkrbtuw3nmecgt/SCHOOLCLOSUREADVISORYCOMMITTEE.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1767827851/venturausdorg/vqxgtnfkrbtuw3nmecgt/SCHOOLCLOSUREADVISORYCOMMITTEE.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1767827851/venturausdorg/vqxgtnfkrbtuw3nmecgt/SCHOOLCLOSUREADVISORYCOMMITTEE.jpg","width":1080}])
Ventura Unified is beginning a clear, data-based process to determine whether any school sites may need to close in the coming years due to continued enrollment declines. A community advisory committee will review the data and provide recommendations, with no closures possible before the 2027–2028 school year.
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