Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

The area was inhabited for around 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Fernandeño-Tataviam and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, who lived in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills and close to the Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) tributary of the Los Angeles River in present-day Woodland Hills.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-03-03-prehistoric-mill_x.htm |title=Prehistoric milling site found in California |date=March 4, 2006 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=October 3, 2011}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14007712.htm |title=Prehistoric milling site found in Azusa |date=March 3, 2006 |newspaper=The Mercury News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060313151831/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14007712.htm |archive-date=March 13, 2006}} The first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish mission and settlement locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos (Valley of St. Catherine of Bononia of the Oaks).{{cite book |last=Roderick |first=Kevin |date=2001 |title=The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb |location=Los Angeles, CA |publisher=Los Angeles Times Books |pages=20–24 |isbn=1-883792-55-X}} The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando) was established in 1797 and controlled the valley's land, including future Woodland Hills.{{cite book |first1=Leonard |last1=Pitt |first2=Dale |last2=Pitt |name-list-style=amp |date=1997 |chapter=Woodland Hills |title=Los Angeles A to Z |location=Berkeley, CA |publisher=University of California Press |page=556 |isbn=0520202740}}

Ownership of the southern half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills, by Americans began in the 1860s. First, Isaac Lankershim (as the "San Fernando Farm Homestead Association") in 1869, then Isaac Lankershim's son, James Boon Lankershim, and Isaac Newton Van Nuys (as the "Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company") in 1873,{{cite web |url=http://supreme.justia.com/us/180/72/case.html |title=Thompson v. Los Angeles Farming & Milling Co., U.S. Supreme Court, 180 U.S. 72 (1901) |website=Justia |date=September 19, 2011 |access-date=October 3, 2011}} and finally, in the "biggest land transaction ever recorded in Los Angeles County", a syndicate led by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Gen. Moses Sherman, and others (as the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company) in 1910.Roderick (2001), p. 48.

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Victor Girard Kleinberger bought {{convert|2,886|acre|ha}} in the area from Chandler's group and founded the town of Girard in 1922.{{cite web |url=http://www.woodlandhillscc.net/Scripts/openExtra.asp?extra=38 |title=History (Woodland Hills) |website=Woodland Hills-Tarzana Chamber of Commerce |access-date=June 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007055658/http://www.woodlandhillscc.net/Scripts/openExtra.asp?extra=38 |archive-date=October 7, 2007}} He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees. His 300 pepper trees, forming a canopy over Canoga Avenue between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo Street, became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972.{{cite web |url=http://preservation.lacity.org/monuments |title=Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments |website=Preservation.lacity.org |access-date=October 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002104315/http://www.preservation.lacity.org/monuments/ |archive-date=October 2, 2011 |url-status=dead}} {{circa|1939}} the area was described as "A small business district on Ventura Boulevard at Topanga Canyon Junction. The population is scattered, being found mostly throughout the surrounding agricultural country."{{Cite web |title=Know Los Angeles county, by Wm. J. Dunkerley, under the direction of Leonard E. Read. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015059481179?urlappend=%3Bseq=30 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=HathiTrust |pages=28 | hdl=2027/mdp.39015059481179?urlappend=%3Bseq=30 |language=en}} The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, and in 1945, it became known as Woodland Hills. Reference to the founding of Girard is part of the story arc in the first season of Perry Mason (2020).

Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley. Situated to the north is West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, to the east is Tarzana, to the south is the Santa Monica Mountains, and to the west is Calabasas.{{cite web |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/woodland-hills/ |title=Woodland Hills |website=Mapping L.A. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822012459/http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/woodland-hills/ |archive-date=August 22, 2014}}

Running east–west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (the Ventura Freeway) and also Ventura Boulevard, the San Fernando Valley's main thoroughfare, whose western terminus is at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.

Woodland Hills can experience some of the more extreme temperature changes from season to season than other regions of the San Fernando Valley. During summer days, temperatures in Woodland Hills are often very high, and overnight winter temperatures can be among the lowest of the Valley. On September 5, 2020, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, hitting {{convert|121|°F|°C}} at Pierce College,{{Cite tweet |author=NWS Los Angeles |user=NWSLosAngeles |number=1302729890739888128 |date=September 6, 2020 |title=All-Time Record High at Woodland Hills (Pierce College) today at 121° breaks the old record of 119° set on 7/22/2006}} tying with Chino's reading as the highest temperature on record in Southern California's coastal basin.{{cite web | title=A History of Significant Weather Events in Southern California | url=https://www.weather.gov/media/sgx/documents/weatherhistory.pdf | access-date=2024-07-02|quote="These two records represent the highest readings on record in Southern California’s coastal basin."|date=March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506105046if_/https://www.weather.gov/media/sgx/documents/weatherhistory.pdf|archive-date=2024-05-06}} The climate is classified as a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers.{{cite web |url=http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/ |title=World Maps of Köppen-Geiger climate classification |website=University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna |access-date=October 3, 2011}} Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, although somewhat higher amounts of rainfall occur in the surrounding hills.{{Cite web |url=http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/webdata/maps/statewide/rainmap.pdf |title=State of California: Precipitation |website=California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection |access-date=January 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721033139/http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/webdata/maps/statewide/rainmap.pdf |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |url-status=dead}}

{{Weather box|location=Woodland Hills, Los Angeles (Pierce College), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1949–present

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|Jan record high F = 93

|Feb record high F = 94

|Mar record high F = 101

|Apr record high F = 105

|May record high F = 113

|Jun record high F = 113

|Jul record high F = 119

|Aug record high F = 116

|Sep record high F = 122

|Oct record high F = 113

|Nov record high F = 101

|Dec record high F = 96

| Jan avg record high F = 82.9

| Feb avg record high F = 83.7

| Mar avg record high F = 88.3

| Apr avg record high F = 94.6

| May avg record high F = 97.8

| Jun avg record high F = 102.4

| Jul avg record high F = 106.5

| Aug avg record high F = 108.0

| Sep avg record high F = 107.3

| Oct avg record high F = 100.4

| Nov avg record high F = 91.1

| Dec avg record high F = 82.4

| year avg record high F = 110.5

|Jan high F = 69.8

|Feb high F = 70.0

|Mar high F = 74.0

|Apr high F = 78.0

|May high F = 82.0

|Jun high F = 88.5

|Jul high F = 95.1

|Aug high F = 97.4

|Sep high F = 93.9

|Oct high F = 85.2

|Nov high F = 76.4

|Dec high F = 68.9

|year high F= 81.6

|Jan mean F = 56.4

|Feb mean F = 56.8

|Mar mean F = 59.9

|Apr mean F = 63.7

|May mean F = 67.8

|Jun mean F = 72.7

|Jul mean F = 78.0

|Aug mean F = 79.1

|Sep mean F = 76.2

|Oct mean F = 69.0

|Nov mean F = 61.2

|Dec mean F = 55.5

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|Jan low F = 43.1

|Feb low F = 43.6

|Mar low F = 45.9

|Apr low F = 48.1

|May low F = 52.6

|Jun low F = 56.9

|Jul low F = 60.8

|Aug low F = 60.8

|Sep low F = 58.5

|Oct low F = 52.9

|Nov low F = 46.0

|Dec low F = 42.0

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| Jan avg record low F = 30.2

| Feb avg record low F = 32.0

| Mar avg record low F = 34.7

| Apr avg record low F = 37.5

| May avg record low F = 42.3

| Jun avg record low F = 47.6

| Jul avg record low F = 52.3

| Aug avg record low F = 52.5

| Sep avg record low F = 48.2

| Oct avg record low F = 42.0

| Nov avg record low F = 33.6

| Dec avg record low F = 29.5

| year avg record low F = 27.8

|Jan record low F=19

|Feb record low F=18

|Mar record low F=26

|Apr record low F=30

|May record low F=33

|Jun record low F=36

|Jul record low F=42

|Aug record low F=42

|Sep record low F=38

|Oct record low F=27

|Nov record low F=23

|Dec record low F=20

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|Feb precipitation inch = 4.62

|Mar precipitation inch = 2.66

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|May precipitation inch = 0.36

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In 2008, the population of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40.

As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79.90% White, 6.97% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 3.34% African American, 0.33% Native American, 4.80% from other races, and 4.52% from two or more races. 11.94% of the population were Hispanic of any race.

In population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is high for the county. The percentage of residents 25 and older with four-year college degrees is 47.0%, which was high for both the city and the county. The percentage of veterans, 10.7% of the population, was high for the city of Los Angeles and high for the county overall. The percentage of veterans who served during World War II or Korea was among the county's highest.

The 2008 Los Angeles Times{{'}}s "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Woodland Hills neighborhood statistics: population: 59,661; median household income: $93,720. The Times said the latter figure was "high for the city of Los Angeles and high for the county."{{cite news |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/woodland-hills |title=Woodland Hills |website=Mapping L.A. |access-date=October 3, 2011 |archive-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814001718/http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/woodland-hills/ |url-status=dead}}

Iranian (8.8%) and German (7.8%) were the most common ancestries in 2000. Iran (27.7%) and the United Kingdom (4.8%) were the most common foreign places of birth.

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Woodland Hills Branch Library (Ventura Boulevard) and the Platt Branch Library (Victory Boulevard) in Woodland Hills.{{cite web |url=http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=58 |title=Woodland Hills Branch Library |website=Los Angeles Public Library |access-date=March 20, 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=65 |title=Platt Branch Library |website=Los Angeles Public Library |access-date=March 20, 2010}}

Woodland Hills is home to the Woodland Hills Country Club, a private equity golf club. The country club is complete with golf course, fine dining, and entertainment options.

The Woodland Hills Recreation Center (Shoup Park) is a {{convert|19|acre|ha|adj=on}} park in Woodland Hills. The park has a small indoor gymnasium without weights and with a capacity of 300; it may be used as an auditorium. The park also has a lighted baseball diamond, outdoor lighted basketball courts, a children's play area, a lighted football field, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts.{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/dos/reccenter/facility/woodlandHillsRC.htm |title=Woodland Hills Recreation Center |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010}} Woodland Hills Pool is an outdoor seasonal unheated swimming pool.{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/DOS/aquatic/facility/woodlandHIllsPool.htm |title=Woodland Hills Swimming Pool |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041211051819/http://www.laparks.org/dos/aquatic/facility/woodlandHIllsPool.htm |archive-date=December 11, 2004}}

The Warner Center Park, also known as Warner Ranch Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/warnerCenterPk.htm |title=Warner Center Park |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010}} is located in Woodland Hills.{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/warnerRanchPk.htm |title=Warner Ranch Park |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010}} The park, unstaffed and unlocked, has a children's play area and picnic tables.

Serrania Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked pocket park. It has a children's play area, hiking trails, and picnic tables.{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/serraniaPk.htm |title=Serrania Park |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010}} Alizondo Drive Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked, and undeveloped park used for brush clearance once per year.{{cite web |url=http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/alizondoDrPk.htm |title=Alizondo Drive Park |website=City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks |access-date=March 20, 2010}}

Along the western boundary of Woodland Hills is the large Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a regional park with a trail network for miles of hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian rides. The trailhead and parking are at the very western end of Victory Boulevard in Woodland Hills. Scheduled walks and programs are offered.{{cite web |url=http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=28 |title=Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve (formerly Ahmanson Ranch) |website=Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy |access-date=October 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412175257/http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=28 |archive-date=April 12, 2018}} The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has various parks nearby to the south of the community. The Top of Topanga Overlook gives panoramic views of the verdant Woodland Hills neighborhoods and the Valley.{{cite web |url=http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=59 |title=Top of Topanga Overlook |website=Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy |access-date=June 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118215038/http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=59 |archive-date=January 18, 2012}}

Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council is the local elected advisory body to the city of Los Angeles representing stakeholders in the Woodland Hills and Warner Center areas.{{Cite web |title=Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council |url=https://whcouncil.org/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council |language=en-US}}

Woodland Hills is located within Los Angeles City Council District 3 represented by Bob Blumenfield.{{cite web |url=http://navigatela.lacity.org/common/mapgallery/pdf/council_districts/CDindex_8.5_11.pdf |title=City of Los Angeles Council Districts |website=Navigate LA}}

Woodland Hills is within California's 46th State Assembly district represented by Democrat Jesse Gabriel{{cite web |url=https://a46.asmdc.org/district-map |title=District 46 Map |website=California State Assembly Democratic Caucus}} and California's 27th State Senate district represented by Democrat Henry Stern.{{Cite web |url=http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/districts/senatedistricts.html |title=2013–2014 Senate Districts |website=California State Legislature}}{{cite web |url=http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov |title=Find Your California Representative |website=California State Legislature}}

• Woodland Hills is represented in the United States Senate by California's Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla.{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/states/CA/intro.htm |title=States in the Senate: California |website=U.S. Senate |access-date=November 7, 2018}}
• Woodland Hills is located within California's 32nd congressional district represented by Democrat Brad Sherman.{{Cite web |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/32#q=Woodland%20Hills%2C%20CA&marker_lng=-118.605838&marker_lat=34.168436|title=California's 32nd Congressional District – CA-32 Representatives & District Map |website=GovTrack.us}}

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Public schools serving Woodland Hills are under the jurisdiction the Los Angeles Unified School District. Much of the area is within Board District 4.{{cite web |url=http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/BoardDistrictMaps/2007-08%20Board%20District%204.pdf |title=Board District 4 Map |website=Los Angeles Unified School District |access-date=November 24, 2008}}

Elementary schools include:

• Calabash Street Elementary School{{cite web |url=http://www.calabashelementary.com/ |title=Calabash Elementary School- Woodland Hills |website=Calabash Elementary.com |access-date=October 3, 2011}}
• Lockhurst Elementary School
• Serrania Elementary School{{cite web |url=http://www.serraniaavenue.org/ |title=Serrania Avenue Elementary School – Welcome to Serrania Avenue |website=Serrania Avenue.org |access-date=October 3, 2011}}
• Woodlake Avenue Elementary School{{cite web |url=http://www.woodlakeschoolptsa.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120190209/http://www.woodlakeschoolptsa.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 20, 2008 |title=Best mini drone – Mini drones for sale |website=Woodlake School PTSA.com |date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=December 4, 2017}}
• Woodland Hills Charter for Enriched Studies{{cite web |url=http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Woodland_Hills_EL/ |title=You are about to leave the LAUSD network |website=LAUSD |access-date=June 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722031637/http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Woodland_Hills_EL/ |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |url-status=dead}}
• Ivy Academia Entrepreneurial Charter School{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyacademia.com/ |title=Ivy Academia PreK-12 Grade |website=Ivy Academia.com |access-date=October 3, 2011}}
• Calvert Street Elementary School

Middle schools include:

• Woodland Hills Charter Academy (formerly known as Parkman Middle School){{cite web |url=http://www.whacademy.com/ |title=Home |website=Woodland Hills Academy |access-date=October 3, 2011}}
• The school opened in 1959 as "Parkman Junior High School." It received its current name in 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.whacademy.com/standardPage.aspx?idpage=696 |title=School History |website=Woodland Hills Academy |access-date=October 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004080038/http://www.whacademy.com/standardPage.aspx?idpage=696 |archive-date=October 4, 2011}}
• George Ellery Hale Charter Academy

High schools include:

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• El Camino Real High School
• William Howard Taft High School
• Henry David Thoreau Continuation High School

Adult School:

• West Valley Occuptional Center, 6200 Winnetka Avenue{{Cite web |url=https://www.wvoc.net/ |title=West Valley Occupational Center |website=wvoc.net}}

• El Camino Real High School
• William Howard Taft Charter High School
• Ingenium Charter School – Kindergarten through Sixth Grade
• George Ellery Hale Charter Academy 6–8 grade
• Chime Charter School K-8
• Serrania Charter for Enriched Studies – K-5
• Calvert School for Enriched Studies – K-5

• The Alexandria Academy – secular school serving First through Twelfth Grade
• Halsey Schools – 6 weeks – 6 years.{{cite web |url=http://www.HalseySchools.com |title=Infant Center & Preschool in Woodland Hills a.k.a. daycare & childcare |website=Halsey Schools.com |access-date=October 3, 2011}}
• Louisville High School – All-female Catholic High School
• St. Bernardine of Siena – preschool through Eighth Grade
• St. Mel – preschool through Eighth Grade
• Woodland Hills Private School – serving Preschool (starting at 2 years old) through Fifth Grade.{{cite web |url=http://www.woodlandhillsprivateschool.com |title=Home |website=Woodland Hills Private School |access-date=October 3, 2011}}

Lycée International de Los Angeles had a Woodland Hills campus, which had over 140 students as of 2001. This was in a public school building,{{cite web |url=http://www.lilaschool.com/woodlandhills/index.html |title=Woodland Hills |website=Lycée International de Los Angeles |access-date=June 29, 2015 |quote=5724 Oso Avenue Woodland Hills, CA 91367 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020311142934/http://www.lilaschool.com/woodlandhills/index.html |archive-date=March 11, 2002}} rented from the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 2001 LAUSD announced that it would not renew the lease.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-09-me-21332-story.html |title=6 Private Campuses in Valley Face Eviction |first=Massie |last=Ritsch |date=January 9, 2002 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 29, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630231822/https://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/09/local/me-21332 |archive-date=June 30, 2015}}

Lycée Français de Los Angeles operated a San Fernando Valley campus in Woodland Hills,{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-28-vw-3128-story.html |title=Early Linguists : Private Foreign-Language Schools Give Bilingual Education a New Twist |first=Michele |last=Lingre |date=April 28, 1988 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 29, 2015 |quote=Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles (Valley campus), 5345 Wilhemina Avenue, Woodland Hills |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701003648/https://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-28/news/vw-3128_1_foreign-language-schools/2 |archive-date=July 1, 2015}} on the site of Platt Elementary School.{{cite web |url=http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/html/agendas/csm/csm09-10-02.html |title=Special Closed Session Minutes 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |date=September 24, 2002 |website=Los Angeles Unified School District |quote=Platt School site, located at 5345 Wilhemina Avenue, Woodland Hills |access-date=June 29, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427224710/http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/html/agendas/csm/csm09-10-02.html |archive-date=April 27, 2015}}

Colleges and universities in Woodland Hills include:

• Los Angeles Pierce College (part of the Los Angeles Community College District)

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 84{{cite web |url=http://lafd.org/fs84.htm |title=Fire Station 84 |website=Los Angeles Fire Department |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812195909/http://lafd.org/fs84.htm |archive-date=August 12, 2007}} (Woodland Hills) and Station 105{{cite web |url=http://lafd.org/fs105.htm |title=Station 105 |website=Los Angeles Fire Department |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812195650/http://lafd.org/fs105.htm |archive-date=August 12, 2007}} (Woodland Hills) serve the community.

The Los Angeles Police Department operates the Topanga Division station in Canoga Park{{cite web |url=http://www.lapdonline.org/topanga_community_police_station |title=Topanga Community Police Station |website=LAPD Online}} which provides service to the Woodland Hills area.

The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a private retirement, nursing care and acute-care hospital facility is reserved for industry professionals. The section includes some people who lived and/or died there, among other residents.

• Sara Paxton, actress{{cite news |title=All is going swimmingly for Aquamarine star Paxton |publisher=Kalamazoo Gazette |date=March 17, 2006 |url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/features-2/1142616006132450.xml&coll=7&thispage=2 |access-date=January 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060320063014/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/features-2/1142616006132450.xml&coll=7 |archive-date=March 20, 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse, actor{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Bob |title=Christopher Mintz-Plasse's big sacrifice |publisher=Cineplex.com |date=June 2009 |url=http://www.cineplex.com/Movies/FamousNews/FamousMagazine/June%202009.aspx?FamousArticles=31317 |access-date=April 24, 2010 |archive-date=June 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603070724/http://www.cineplex.com/Movies/FamousNews/FamousMagazine/June%202009.aspx?FamousArticles=31317 |quote=Chris, who’ll turn 20 on June 20th [2009] ...}}
• Bud Abbott, actor{{cite news |title=Bud Abbott, Straight Man To Lou Costello, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/25/archives/bud-abbott-straight-man-to-lou-costello-is-dead.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 25, 1974}}
• Jacques Aubuchon, actor, lived in Woodland Hills at the time of his death{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/03/arts/jacques-aubuchon-67-an-actor-in-movies-plays-and-tv-dramas.html |title=Jacques Aubuchon, 67, an Actor In Movies, Plays and TV Dramas |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 3, 1992 |access-date=March 24, 2017 |last1=Collins |first1=Glenn}}
• Rick Auerbach, Major League Baseball player{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kaplehttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=auerbri01ga01 |title=Rick Auerbach Stats |website=Baseball Almanac |access-date=November 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728125804/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kaplehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.baseball-almanac.com%2Fplayers%2Fplayer.php%3Fp%3Dauerbri01ga01 |archive-date=July 28, 2013 |url-status=dead}}
• Orr Barouch, Israeli professional soccer player{{cite web |url=http://www.chicago-fire.com/news/2011/12/fire-sign-orr-barouch |title=Fire Sign Orr Barouch |website=Chicago Fire Communications |date=December 2, 2011 |access-date=December 4, 2017 |archive-date=February 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211000220/http://www.chicago-fire.com/news/2011/12/fire-sign-orr-barouch |url-status=dead}}
• Justine Bateman, actress{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3037944/most-creative-people/justine-bateman-on-pulling-off-a-major-midlife-career-pivot?position=3&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=11142014 |title=Justine Bateman On Pulling Off A Major Midlife Career Pivot |first=Nicole |last=LaPorte |date=November 5, 2014 |website=Fast Company |access-date=November 23, 2014}} (Originally from Rye, New York)
• Roy Campanella, Major League Baseball player
• Helena Carroll, actress{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/movies/helena-carroll-actress-and-irish-players-co-founder-dies-at-84.html |title=Helena Carroll, 84, Actress of Stage and Screen, Dies |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=April 10, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 6, 2013}}
• Mary Carver, actress{{cite news |title=Mary Carver |url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/mary-carver |website=Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |date=October 27, 2013 |access-date=November 13, 2013}}
• Ted Cassidy, actor; his cremated remains are buried in an unmarked location at his former Woodland Hills residence{{cite book |title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory |year=2001 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-78640-983-9 |page=227 |first=Allan R. |last=Ellenberger}}
• Mary Dodson, art director{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Barnes |title=Mary Weaver Dodson, Art Director on 'Murder, She Wrote,' Dies at 83 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-weaver-dodson-dead-murder-868089 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |date=February 21, 2016 |access-date=March 13, 2016}}
• Dr. Dre, rapper, producer, entrepreneur{{cite news |first=Neal |last=Leitereg |title=Dr. Dre lists longtime Woodland Hills manor for $5.25 million |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-dr-dre-woodland-hills-home-for-sale-20190716-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=July 16, 2019 |access-date=August 13, 2019}}
• John Feldmann, musician, songwriter, and producer{{cite web |url=http://sanfernandovalleyblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/celebrity-real-estate-music-producer.html |title=Celebrity Real Estate: Music Producer and Musician John Feldmann Lists in Woodland Hills |date=November 19, 2012 |website=San Fernando Valley Blog |access-date=January 15, 2014}}
• Jeff Fisher, NFL head coach, attended high school in Woodland Hills{{cite web |url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/09/jeff-fisher-show-debuts-espnla-710-september-13/ |title=The Jeff Fisher Show Debuts on ESPNLA 710 on September 13 |website=ESPN MediaZone.com |date=September 7, 2016}}
• Andy Gibb, singer{{cite web |title=In Memory of Andy and Hugh Gibb |url=http://www.brothersgibb.org/andyinmemory2.html |website=BrothersGibb.org |access-date=January 1, 2016}}
• Raymond Greenleaf, actor{{cite web |title=Raymond Greenleaf |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339121/bio |website=IMDb |access-date=May 4, 2014}}
• Ryan Hurst, actor, producer, and director{{cite web |url=https://www.tmz.com/2013/07/18/sons-of-anarchy-ryan-hurst-new-house-million/ |title='Sons of Anarchy' Star Ryan Hurst – Drops $1.7 Million ... On Mansion To Die For |website=TMZ.com |date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=December 4, 2017}}
• Buster Keaton, actor and director{{cite book |title=Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase |last=Meade |first=Marion |year=1997 |publisher=Da Capo |isbn=0-306-80802-1 |page=284}}
• Chief Keef, rapper{{cite news |url=http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2014/11/06/was-chief-keef-too-gangster-for-interscope?page=3 |title=Was Chief Keef Too Gangster for Interscope? |first=Isaac |last=Simpson |date=November 6, 2014 |newspaper=LA Weekly |access-date=December 4, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109194313/http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2014/11/06/was-chief-keef-too-gangster-for-interscope?page=3 |archive-date=November 9, 2014}}
• Jack Klugman, actor{{cite web |url=https://www.tmz.com/2013/01/04/jack-klugman-cause-of-death-prostate-cancer/ |title=Jack Klugman Died from Prostate Cancer |date=January 4, 2013 |website=TMZ.com |access-date=January 5, 2013}}{{cite news |date=December 24, 2012 |title=Jack Klugman, Actor of Everyman Integrity, Dies at 90 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/arts/television/jack-klugman-stage-and-screen-actor-is-dead-at-90.html}}
• Ryan Lavarnway, Major League Baseball catcher{{cite web |url=http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stories/071707aae.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005441/http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stories/071707aae.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |title=Jewish Sports Review Tabs Adam Amar and Joey Lieberman 2007 All-Americans |website=CSTV |date=July 17, 2007 |access-date=August 19, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://njjewishnews.com/kaplanskorner/ |title=One man's ceiling is another man's floor |website=New Jersey Jewish News |first=Ron |last=Kaplan |date=August 18, 2011 |access-date=August 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818021334/http://njjewishnews.com/kaplanskorner/ |archive-date=August 18, 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/red-sox-prospect-ryan-lavarnway-gets-call-up-will-play-tonight/ |title=Red Sox prospect Ryan Lavarnway gets call-up, will play tonight |newspaper=Jewish Baseball News |date=August 16, 2011 |access-date=August 20, 2011}}
• Geoffrey Lewis, actor{{Cite web |url=https://www.inquisitr.com/1988834/geoffrey-lewis-actor-dead-death-obituary-clint-eastwood-robert-redford-movies-woodland-hills/ |title=Geoffrey Lewis, Dead: Hollywood Actor Known For Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood Movies Dies At Woodland Hills Home |first=Traciy |last=Reyes |date=April 8, 2015 |website=Inquisitr.com}}
• Mikey Madison, Academy Award winning actress {{Cite web |last=Madievsky |first=Ruth |date=March 2, 2025 |title=Anora Star Mikey Madison Is Having a Fairy-Tale Year |url=https://www.thecut.com/article/mikey-madison-anora-lady-in-the-lake-interview.html |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=The Cut |language=en}}
• Austin Matelson (aka Luchasaurus), professional wrestler, grew up in Woodland Hills{{cite web |url=https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/csun-profiles/luchasaurus-a-reptilian-antihero-and-csun-alum-takes-the-ring/ |title='Luchasaurus,' a Reptilian Antihero and CSUN Alum, Takes the Ring |first=Cary |last=Osborne |website=California State University, Northridge |date=June 17, 2019 |access-date=April 4, 2020}}
• Charles McPhee, author, talk-show host, "The Dream Doctor Show", Dream Researcher, 1962–2011{{cite web |date=March 14, 2011 |title=Charles McPhee, Host of 'Dream Doctor' on Radio, Dies at 49 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/nyregion/charles-mcphee-dream-doctor-radio-host-dies-at-49.html |access-date=August 25, 2014}}
• Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, actress {{Cite news |url=https://www.laweekly.com/mapping-meghan-markles-los-angeles-life-before-the-royal-wedding/ |title=Mapping Meghan Markle's Los Angeles Life Before the Royal Wedding |last=Derrick |first=Lisa |date=May 18, 2018 |newspaper=LA Weekly |language=en-US |access-date=January 1, 2020}}
• Janel Moloney, actress{{cite web |title=Janel Moloney |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1241467%7C0/Janel-Moloney/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=May 19, 2019}}
• Dolores Moran, actress
• Nichelle Nichols, actress on Star Trek: The Original Series, recruiter for NASA{{cite news |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/nichelle-nichols/ |title=Nichelle Nichols Hollywood Star Walk of Fame |newspaper=LA Times |access-date=February 15, 2019}}
• Joy Picus, City Council member, 1977–91; Ms. magazine Woman of the Year{{Cite web |url=http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/07/518083.pdf |title=Spotlight on . . . Third District Councilwoman Joy Picus |website=Civic Center NewSource |date=June 24, 1991 |pages=1 & 2}}
• Rafa Sardina, 4-time Grammy Award and 10-time Latin Grammy Award winner recording and mixing engineer resides in Woodland Hills{{Cite web |url=http://www.studioexpresso.com/profiles/rafasardina.htm |title=Producer Rafa Sardina |website=StudioExpresso.com |access-date=March 26, 2020}}
• Tupac Shakur, rapper, writer, and actor{{cite news |last1=Ryon |first1=Ruth |title=Burning His 'Bridges' in Beverly Hills |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-06-cl-51132-story.html |access-date=May 19, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 6, 2000}}{{cite web |last1=Barragan |first1=Bianca |title=Tupac Shakur's last home hits the market for $2.66M |url=https://la.curbed.com/2017/7/7/15938224/tupac-shakur-last-home-for-sale-woodland-hills-calabasas |website=Curbed |date=July 7, 2017 |publisher=Vox Media, Inc. |access-date=May 19, 2019}}
• Thomas D. Shepard, City Council member, 1961–67{{Cite news |id={{ProQuest|167157170}} |title=Shepard Appointed |date=July 5, 1957 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite news |id={{ProQuest|167839749}} |title=City Council Candidates |date=March 19, 1961 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite news |id={{ProQuest|167874572}} |title=Shepard Asks End of Public Works Group |date=June 2, 1961 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite news |id={{ProQuest|155144341}} |title=Incumbent Councilman One of Three in 3rd District Race |date=March 28, 1965 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
• Tyler Skaggs, Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
• Dean Smith, Olympic sprinter, John Wayne's stuntman, and actor
• Jan Smithers, actress{{cite book |first=Michael B. |last=Kassel |title=America's Favorite Radio Station: WKRP in Cincinnati |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-esBmJWj3sC&pg=PA28 |date=June 15, 1993 |publisher=Popular Press |isbn=978-0-87972-584-6 |pages=28–}}
• Russell Thacher (1919-1990), author and film producer who co-produced the films Soylent Green and The Last Hard Men together with Walter Seltzer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/04/obituaries/russell-thacher-71-producer-and-writer.html |title=Russell Thacher, 71, Producer and Writer |author= |date=October 4, 1990 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=Russell Thacher, a film producer and writer, died on Monday at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 71 years old and lived in Woodland Hills, Calif. |access-date=November 25, 2017}}
• Laurence Trimble, actor, writer, film director{{cite news |date=February 10, 1954 |title=Laurence Trimble Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/02/10/archives/-auec_e-t__sle-ies-silent-film-director-and-dogi-_-trainer-succumbs.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 28, 2015}}
• Troy Van Leeuwen, musician and record producer{{cite web |last1=Flemming |first1=Jack |title=Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen lands a secluded spot in Woodland Hills |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2019-12-24/guitarist-troy-van-leeuwen-woodland-hills#:~:text=Rock%20musician%20Troy%20Van%20Leeuwen,different%20properties%20in%20Southern%20California. |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 11, 2020 |date=December 24, 2019}}
• Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), musician, singer and composer. Captain Beefheart's definitive album Trout Mask Replica was composed and rehearsed in a communal house in Woodland Hills in 1968–1969{{cite web |url=http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/09/captain_beefhearts_cabin_in_woodland_hills.php |first=Pauline |last=O'Connor |title=Captain Beefheart's Cabin in Woodland Hills |website=Curbed Los Angeles |date=September 10, 2010 |access-date=April 24, 2014}}
• Robin Yount, Hall of Fame baseball player{{cite news |last1=Hoffarth |first1=Tom |title=Sunday Q&A: Scout's honor: Yount was one of the Valley's best |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2011/01/08/sunday-qa-scouts-honor-yount-was-one-of-the-valleys-best/ |access-date=May 19, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News |date=January 8, 2011}}
• Cooper Koch, actor and model{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Chris |date=October 10, 2024 |title=Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch Don’t Think the Menendez Brothers Are 'Monsters' |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nicholas-alexander-chavez-and-cooper-koch-dont-think-the-menendez-brothers-are-monsters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010211127/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nicholas-alexander-chavez-and-cooper-koch-dont-think-the-menendez-brothers-are-monsters |archive-date=October 10, 2024 |access-date=October 17, 2024 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

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• [http://www.woodlandhillscc.net/ Woodland Hills-Tarzana Chamber of Commerce]
• [http://aboutwoodlandhills.com About Woodland Hills]

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