The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District announced Ocean Park School House as the new name for the neighborhood school in Ocean Park. The Board of Education approved the 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 at 2526 6th St., which closed in June 2022. The campus has been remodeled through improvements funded by Measures SMS and QS.
The district will relocate several schools over winter and summer breaks:
Olympic High School and the Off Campus Learning Center will move from Santa Monica College to Ocean Park School House over winter break and hold classes there during the spring semester.
SMASH will remain at the Michelle and Barack Obama Center for Inquiry and Exploration for the fall and spring semesters.
During summer break, Olympic and OCLC will move to the main building of the Obama Center and remain there for the 2026-2027 school year.
SMASH will move to Ocean Park School House over summer break and 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.
Edited by SMDP Staff