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health and attendance services.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE AREA

Loe a tion and size. The William Hart High School
District was formed by the combining of the Castaic Union,

Newhall, Saugus Union, and Sulphur Springs Union element-

ary school districts. It is located in the northern part

of Los Angeles County and adjoining the eastern boundary

of Ventura County. It extends east from the Ventura County
line for twenty-three miles to the boundary of the Antelope

Valley Joint Union High School District. The northern

boundary adjoins also the Antelope Valley Joint Union High

School District on a line that traveres the foothills

of the Tehachipi Range. To the south the boundary line
follows the crest of the. Santa Susana Mountains to the Los

Angeles City limits near the Fremont Pass of U. S. Highway

No. 6. It then jogs north for a short distance and then

continues east on the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Frorn north to south the district varies in width from
nineteen miles on the west boundary to eight miles on the

east boundary. The district encompasses approximately four

hundred square miles. It includes the towns of Newhall,

Castaic, Saugus, and the rapidly expanding residential

areas in Mint Canyon.