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# District opens its doors to show off its schools
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/district-opens-its-doors-to-show-off-its-schools/
- Published: 2007-12-04T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:12:43.000Z
- Author: Melody Hanatani
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

*Schools to showcase themselves*

SMMUSD HDQTRS Parents can gain a glimpse into their children’s learning environment starting today when the school campuses in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District open their classroom doors as part of a week-long event celebrating the public schools.

A different set of schools will be open to the community for observation during school hours every day of this week, starting with Olympic High School today; followed by the elementary schools on Wednesday; the middle schools, Grant Elementary School and Malibu Middle/High School on Thursday; finishing off with Santa Monica High School on Friday. The Child Development Services center will be open on Thursday morning.

The open houses will include visits to classes while they’re in session, campus tours and meetings with principals and teachers, where the community can learn more about what each school has to offer and what is being planned for the future.

The event is meant to give the community some insight into what makes the public schools in Santa Monica and Malibu one of the top in the country. Malibu High School was recently named the 98th best high school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

“We’re really excited about opening all of our schools in the community from the north to the south and east to the west and (showing) what we accomplish every day in the schools,” said PTA President Rebecca Kennerly.

The event is co-sponsored by the district, the PTA Council, SEIU Local 99 and Santa Monica-Malibu Classroom Teachers Association.

“Public Schools Week” was originally scheduled for the week of Nov. 5, but was postponed because of the Canyon Fire in Malibu in late October. The wildfire closed the Malibu schools for several days and shut down Webster Elementary School for an entire week because of damages to several of the classrooms. The “State of our Schools” address, which was to have kicked off the week-long event, was held as scheduled on Nov. 5.

The open house will take place on the following dates and times in Malibu: • Pt. Dume Elementary — Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. 6955 Fernhill Drive • Cabrillo Elementary — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 30237 Morning View Drive • Webster Elementary — Wednesday, 10:15 a.m. 3602 Winter Canyon Road • Malibu Middle/High School — Thursday, 10 a.m. 30215 Morning View Drive In Santa Monica: • Olympic High School — Today, 10 a.m. 721 Ocean Park Blvd. • John Muir Elementary — Wednesday, 9 a.m. 2526 Sixth St. • Franklin Elementary — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 2400 Montana Ave. • McKinley Elementary — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 2401 Santa Monica Blvd. • Will Rogers Elementary — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 2401 14th St. • Roosevelt Elementary — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 801 Montana Ave. • SMASH — Wednesday, 10 a.m. 2525 Fifth St. • Edison Language Academy — Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. 2425 Kansas Ave. • Grant Elementary — Thursday, 9 a.m. 2368 Pearl St. • John Adams Middle School — Thursday, 10 a.m. 2425 16th St. • Lincoln Middle School — Thursday, 10 a.m. 1501 California Ave. • Child Development Services/Washington West — Thursday, 10 a.m. 2802 Fourth St. • Santa Monica High School — Friday, 10 a.m. 601 Pico Blvd.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 4, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)