A district in the city of Los Angeles, California.

Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana, with Warner Center in its northern section. On the north, Woodland Hills is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, and on the south by Topanga and Malibu, California.

Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east-west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, whose western terminus is at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.

The population of Woodland Hills is approximately 70,000. The region is recognized for having the warmest weather in the City of Los Angeles. It is often very hot during the summer and gets very cool in the winter.

There are a lot of fun places to go and do and the Beach is only a 6 mile drive through Topanga Cyn.

Amenities Include:

Topanga Plaza, Promenade Mall, Warner Center, World Famous Ventura Blvd., Fallbrook Mall.

Parks and Recreation include:

The Woodland Hills Recreation Center (Shoup Park), The Warner Center Park, also known as Warner Ranch Park, Serrania Park, Alizondo Drive Park.

Along the western boundary of Woodland Hills is the large Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a regional park with a trail network for miles of hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian rides. The trailhead and parking are at the very western end of Victory Boulevard in Woodland Hills. Scheduled walks and programs are offered. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has various parks nearby to the south of the community. The Top of Topanga Overlook gives panoramic views of the verdant Woodland Hills neighborhoods and the Valley.

Some Public schools serving Woodland Hills are under the jurisdiction the Los Angeles Unified School District. Much of the area is within Board District 4.

Elementary schools include:

• Calabash Street Elementary School
• Lockhurst Elementary School
• Serrania Elementary School

Middle schools include:

• Woodland Hills Academy (formerly known as Parkman Middle School)
• The school opened in 1959 as “Parkman Junior High School.” It received its current name in 2006.
• Hale Middle School

High schools include:

• El Camino Real High School
• William Howard Taft High School

Charter Schools include:

• Ingenium Charter School – Kindergarten through Sixth Grade
• George Ellery Hale Charter Academy 6-8 grade
• Chime Charter School K-8

Private Schools include:

• Louisville High School All female Catholic High School
• St. Mel – preschool through Eighth Grade
• Crespi Carmelite High School All Boys Catholic High School

Colleges and Universities include:

• Los Angeles Pierce College (part of the Los Angeles Community College District)

Libraries include:

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Woodland Hills Branch Library (Ventura Boulevard) and the Platt Branch Library (Victory Boulevard) in Woodland Hills.

An affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. It is located in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and is in the northwest Santa Monica Mountains between Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, West Hills, Hidden Hills and Malibu, California. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,058, up from 20,033 at the 2000 census. The city was formally incorporated as an independent city in 1991. Prior to that the area was an unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County.

The Leonis Adobe, an adobe structure in Old Town Calabasas, dates from 1844 and is one of the oldest buildings in the greater Los Angeles area.

Communities

Vista Pointe is located along the transverse ranges that run parallel to, and in between, the Ventura Freeway (U.S. 101) and Parkway Calabasas.

From Parkway Calabasas: Hidden Hills West, Westridge, Calabasas Hills, Calabasas Park Estates, Calabasas Country Estates, and The Oaks.

From Park Granada or Mulholland Drive: Mulholland Heights, Mulwood, Las Villas, Bellagio, The Ridge, Creekside, Clairidge, Calabasas Highlands, Mountain Park, Abercrombie Ranch Estates, Cold Creek, and Park Moderne.

From Las Virgenes: Monte Nido, Deer Springs, Stone Creek, El Encanto, Archstone, Mont Calabasas, Malibu Canyon Park, The Colony at Calabasas, and Calabasas View.

From Lost Hills Road: Saratoga Hills, Saratoga Ranch, Deer Springs, Steeplechase, y el monte.

Public services

Calabasas funds its own public transportation in the form of a shuttle and trolley service. It augments the service provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (LACMTA): line 161and funds its own library (as opposed to using the Los Angeles County library system), runs the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center, and has a protected and maintained historical district called “Old Town Calabasas”.

Education

Calabasas residents are zoned to schools in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, one of the highest ranked districts in the state. The district also serves primarily the nearby cities of Agoura Hills, Bell Canyon, and Hidden Hills.

From 1997 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009, Calabasas High School had hired a new principal at the beginning of every school year.

In January 2004, Alice C. Stelle Middle School was opened on the corner of Mulholland Highway and Paul Revere Road to serve the eastern half of the city. The western half is served by Arthur E. Wright Middle School on Las Virgenes Road, which prior to 2004, was the city’s only middle school.

Calabasas is also home to the private Viewpoint School and Calmont School. It is also home to the elementary schools Chaparral, Round Meadow, Lupin Hill, and Bay Laurel.

A district in the western San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

West Hills is bordered by Chatsworth and the Chatsworth Reservoir to the north, Canoga Park to the east, Woodland Hills to the south, Calabasas and Hidden Hills to the southwest, and the Simi Hills with the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve and Bell Canyon to the west.

Three historic ranches and a silent film star’s estate in West Hills have been awarded Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument status recognition and protection, and two are city parks. In addition on the western edge of West Hills huge open space preserves provide an undeveloped greenbelt and nearby recreation opportunities. The high number of neighborhood parks here offer sports fields and courts, play areas for children, and community rooms.

Landmarks

Orcutt Ranch

• Orcutt Ranch Estate, (“Rancho Sombra del Roble”) to the Orcutts, is the 1920 adobe residence, gardens, and citrus orchards of William Warren Orcutt, an early Union Oil Company executive.The park has an attractive new entry through craftsman style stone gates to a parking area with natural habitat landscaping on Roscoe Boulevard near Valley Circle Boulevard. The park, now named the Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center, offers: self-guided strolling, exploring and scheduled house tours; public community gardens; annual public citrus harvests; and garden wedding and special event facilities. Orcutt Ranch is a registered-protected Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Shadow Ranch

• Shadow Ranch Park, formerly the Workman Ranch, on Vanowen Boulevard just east of Fallbrook Avenue. Alfred Workman was a muleskinner who emigrated from Australia, winding up running a massive wheat farm owned by a syndicate led by Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys. He bought the ranch in 1869, and from then to 1872, Workman built a home for his wife, Henrietta Feliz, and himself by adding onto an existing adobe. The Australian had eucalyptus trees imported and planted on the ranch, and some folks claim all the eucalyptus trees in California stem from Workman Ranch. Workman Ranch was acquired by a married, screenwriting couple, Colin Clements and Florence Ryerson (the latter co-wrote the screenplay for The Wizard of Oz while living here). She renamed the estate Shadow Ranch for the amount of shade provided by the numerous eucalyptus trees planted by Workman decades ago. William Wyler’s movie The Children’s Hour, based on the play by Lillian Hellman, was filmed here in 1961. Shadow Ranch Park is an L.A. City Park with lighted basketball courts, a children’s play area, football and soccer fields, meeting and community rooms, a baseball diamond, and picnic tables. Organized youth sports are also offered at this registered-protected Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Peppergate Ranch

The 29-acre Peppergate Ranch was located between Orcutt Ranch and Chatsworth Reservoir. The ranch’s residence was designed by master architect Paul R. Williams (1894–1980) in the Ranch Style. It was built in 1939 for Talton R. Craig, founder of the Craig Movie Supply Company. The T.R. Craig Residence is a California Historical Landmark (#992) and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (in 2011), located on Pinelake Drive. Peppergate Ranch was subdivided, as Woodlake Estates and Pinelake Estates, in the 1960s.

Schools

Public schools

Most of the area is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Small portions are within the Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Los Angeles Unified School District

Public elementary schools serving West Hills include:

• Capistrano Avenue Elementary School
• Enadia Way Elementary School
• Hamlin Street Elementary School
• Haynes Street Elementary School
• Justice Street Elementary School
• Pomelo Drive Elementary School
• Welby Way Elementary School

The former Highlander Road Elementary School was closed in the 1980s, though the site and buildings remain.

Most West Hills residents attend George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills.

Some residents are zoned to Lawrence Middle School and Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth. Some residents are zoned to Columbus Middle School and Canoga Park High School in Canoga Park.

Las Virgenes Unified School District

A small portion of West Hills is zoned to Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Residents are zoned to:

• Round Meadow Elementary School
• Alice C. Stelle Middle School
• Calabasas High School

Charter school

Ingenium Charter School – Kindergarten through Sixth Grade

Private schools

• Chaminade College Preparatory School, Roman Catholic high school operated by the Marianists. The campus opened in 1961.
• Faith Baptist School, Baptist university-preparatory school – nearby in Canoga Park.
• Kadima Day School, Jewish day school.
• New Community Jewish High School, Jewish high school.
• Saint Bernardine of Siena, Catholic elementary and middle school operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles -nearby in Woodland Hills.
• West Valley Christian School (elementary and middle) – It previously had a high school, but it closed in June 2011^[62]

Formerly known as Owensmouth, it is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.

It is bordered by Woodland Hills on the south, West Hills on the west, Chatsworth on the north, and Winnetka on the east.

Government and infrastructure

Police

Los Angeles Police Department Topanga Community Police Station serves residents in Canoga Park, parts of Winnetka, West Hills and Woodland Hills. The Topanga Community Police Station opened in January 2009. The police department named the station after a village in the Tongva language of the historically local Tongva-Fernandeño Native American tribe. The department originally planned to name it the Northwest Station, but residents preferred a name linking to the town’s history. Prior to the opening of the Topanga station, the Devonshire Community Police Station served addresses north of Roscoe Boulevard while the West Valley Police Station served addresses south of Roscoe Boulevard.

Post offices

The United States Postal Service operates the Canoga Park Post Office at 8201 Canoga Avenue and the Challenger Post Office at 21801 Sherman Way. Challenger Station maintains a fine WPA mural by the famous Western artist, Maynard Dixon.

Public libraries

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Canoga Park Branch Library at 20939 Sherman Way.

Education

Public schools

Canoga Park is zoned to Los Angeles Unified School District schools.

Public schools serving Canoga Park include:

Elementary schools

• Canoga Park Elementary School
• Enadia Way Elementary School (opened 2008 – Attendance boundaries shifted in 2009)
• Hart Street Elementary School
• Limerick Elementary School
• Stanley Mosk Elementary School
• Multicultural Learning Center/ Charter School

Middle schools

• Columbus Middle School
• Multicultural Learning Center/ Charter School

High schools

• Canoga Park High School

Charter schools

• Ingenium Charter School, K-6 school on campus of Columbus Middle School

 Private schools

Private schools located in Canoga Park include:

• The Concordia Schools Concordia Canoga Park (K-12)
  • Formed by the merger of Trinity Lutheran High School and Canoga Park Lutheran SchoolTrinity Lutheran was located where Concordia Canoga Park is now.
• Faith Baptist Schools
• AGBU High School