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Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District

Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is a school district located in Santa Monica, California.

The place

Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is a school district located in Santa Monica, California. The district serves the cities of Santa Monica and Malibu, as well as a portion of Westlake Village, the Pepperdine University census-designated place, and a portion of the Topanga census-designated place. It has ten elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools, an adult high school, and an alternative school.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Santa Monica Pier

    The Santa Monica Pier is a large pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, United States. It contains a small amusement park, concession stands, and areas for views and fishing.

    2.4 km · Pier in Santa Monica, California, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Santa Monica College

    Santa Monica College is a public community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study.

    1 km · public, community college in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery

    Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary, formerly Ballona Cemetery, is located at 1847 14th Street, alongside Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, United States. The cemetery was founded in 1897 and sits on 26 acres.

    600 m · cemetery in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Santa Monica State Beach

    Santa Monica State Beach is a California State Park operated by the city of Santa Monica. The beach is located along Pacific Coast Highway.

    2.3 km · beach in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pacific Park

    Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park located on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California. It is the only amusement park on the West Coast located directly on a pier, and the only admission-free amusement park in Los Angeles County.

    2.3 km · amusement park in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Eames House

    The Eames House is a historic house museum at 203 Chautauqua Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

    3.8 km · house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Binoculars Building

    The Binoculars Building is Google's campus in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally known as the Chiat/Day Building, it was built in 1991 for the advertising agency Chiat/Day and designed by architect Frank Gehry.

    3 km · urban building in Venice, California in the shape of binoculars · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Third Street Promenade

    The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica, California which originally opened as the Santa Monica Mall on November 8, 1965. It is considered a premier shopping and dining district on the Westside and draws crowds from all over the Greater Los Angeles area.

    1.7 km · pedestrian mall shopping complex in Santa Monica, California · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heal the Bay Aquarium

    Heal the Bay Aquarium, previously named the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, is a private-public aquarium at a California State Beach Park managed by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors, located beneath the Santa Monica Pier, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Since 2003, it is operated by Heal the Bay, a nonprofit organization.

    2.1 km · aquarium in Santa Monica, California, USA · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Venice Beach

    Venice is a neighborhood of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town.

    4 km · white sand beach in Venice, Los Angeles · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District

Airports
Los Angeles (LAX), 11 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 23 km · Long Beach (LGB), 38 km
Stations
Santa Monica Airport, 2.6 km · 17th Street/Santa Monica College, 200 m
  • Santa Ana → Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District
    3664 km · quickest by air, 13h 6m · $790–1,180
  • Ontario → Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · $7–9
  • San Bernardino → Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · $10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inVarious shared vans will also take visitors from the airport to local hotels, and taxis are prevalent at the airport and will cost $20-25.
  • Get aroundThis water taxi is just $1 (one-way) for each boarding and is a convenient way to leave the car and visit several other areas in the Marina.

From Wikivoyage: Marina del Rey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,607 km
  2. 021,696 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,743 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,759 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,821 km

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Around it

Next door to Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District

Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District is 22 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Venicebeachfront neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA3.9 km
  • Brentwoodaffluent neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States3.3 km
  • Sawtelleneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States3 km
  • Rancho Parkneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States of America3.5 km
  • University High Schoolsecondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, United States3.1 km
  • Social and Public Art Resource Centercommunity arts center in Venice, California3.9 km