Beverly Hills Unified School District

The Beverly Hills Unified School District, abbreviated BHUSD, is a school district based in Beverly Hills, California. It was unified into an elementary and high school district in 1936. Serving the city of Beverly Hills, it consists of four K-8 schools, one high school and a special education school.

The Los Angeles City High School District annexed the Beverly Hills elementary school district on August 18, 1921. The elementary school district unified on March 23, 1936 as it established high school operations, therefore separating it from the Los Angeles high school district.

In June 2010 the BHUSD began to deny permits to allow out of district students at BHUSD schools to continue attending BHUSD, stirring local controversy.

The district superintendent was Kari McVeigh, who was replaced upon her resignation by Dr. Jerry Gross. Most recently, Steve Kessler was appointed as the superintendent in July 2015. He's been with the district for 39 years. The previous superintendent was Dr. Jeffrey Hubbard, who accepted a position as the superintendent at the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Orange County. The current superintendent is Steve Kessler.

The BHUSD Board of Education consists of five members elected by the residents of Beverly Hills. Howard Goldstein, Lisa Korbatov, Mel Spitz, Isabel Hacker, and Noah Margo are the current members of the school board. The student board member is Shawn Ahdout. Meetings are held bimonthly. Meetings are streamed live by KBEV on Ustream.

The reputation of Beverly Hills Unified was one of the factors that attracted large numbers of Iranian Jews to the Beverly Hills area beginning in the 1970s. By 1990 about 20% of the students of the BHUSD were Iranian, prompting the district to hire a counselor for Iranians and to write announcements in Persian. The Iranian Education Foundation donated money to the district. In the BHUSD Nowruz is a school holiday.

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