Los Cerritos Middle School
| Conejo Valley Unified School District | |
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Ventura County, California United States |
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| Grades | K-12 |
| Superintendent | Jeffrey L. Baarstad, Ph.D. |
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| Website | http://www.conejo.k12.ca.us/ |
Conejo Valley Unified School District or CVUSD is a school district in Ventura County. It serves Thousand Oaks, California and its subsections Newbury Park and the Ventura County section of Westlake Village.
Los Cerritos Middle School is a public middle school in Thousand Oaks, California. It is one of the five middle schools in Conejo Valley Unified School District. It was named a Blue Ribbon school under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2004, along with Westlake High School, also in the district.[1] The school colors are blue and gray, and the school mascot is the leopard. Its principal is Mr. Jason Klinger. The vice-principal is Mrs. Brandy LaRue, who will be principal in Mr. Klinger's absence. The Dean of Students is Mrs. Kimberly Michaud, who is also the head do the ski and snowboard club. The middle school is also home to an award winning choir that is directed by Janice Hague, and every year they present a Spring musical in addition to their outstanding Jazz Bands. Los Cerritos also offers a variety of classes such as ASB (Associative Student Body), Art, Woodshop, PSST (Peer Service Support Team), LCSA (Leadership, Character, Service, Academics), and Computers. It has a surf team (Leopard Sharks), a basketball team, and a volleyball team.
Los Cerritos Middle School Jazz Band is the first California middle school in 63 years to receive an invitation to play at the 64th annual 2010 Midwest Band Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference Dec. 15 through 18. The performance was scheduled for Dec. 15 at McCormick Place West in Chicago, Ill. School representatives say the invitation is the highest honor a school band can receive. The Midwest Band Clinic serves music educators with the goal of improving the field of music education. Founded in 1946, the clinic is one of the world’s largest conferences for instrumental music educators, attended annually by 15,000 musicians and teachers. The anticipated Chicago audience for Los Cerritos was up to 1,000 educators and musicians. Several professional musicians from the Southern California area and other parts of the United States performed with the students. There are now currently (as of 2010) two Jazz Bands in Los Cerritos. Originally called Jazz 1 and Jazz 2, Jazz 2 being the beginning Jazz band and Jazz 1 being the advanced, the Los Cerritos band director, Mr. Blake, changed the names of the bands to East Coast (Jazz 2) and West Coast (Jazz 1) Jazz bands. This naming system bears a striking resemblance to the A.M. and P.M. Jazz Bands of the local Thousand Oaks High School (TOHS). For the following 2013 school year, West Coast Jazz Band may be cut, due to a lack of proper funding for the dwindling number of returning and incoming band students.
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