Simi Valley Unified School District

Most Simi Valley schools are neighborhood schools. The district posts three Google maps on its School Boundary Maps page: elementary (grades K–5), middle (6–8) and high school (9–12). Find your home on the map; the colored area it sits in is your boundary, and clicking the red pin shows the school's name. The elementary map shows 15 attendance areas, the middle school map shows Hillside, Sinaloa and Valley View, and the high school map shows Royal and Simi Valley High.

The district's Find MY School page also has a tool to look up your residential schools.

Six schools have no boundary and are not assigned by address: the Dual Language Academy at Arroyo Elementary (application and language assessment), Hollow Hills and Vista elementary schools (lottery), Santa Susana High School (application), and Apollo High School and Monte Vista School (administrative referral).

To enroll at your neighborhood school, the district says to call or visit that school's office, which will walk you through the forms. Students already enrolled in a district school do not need to do anything to stay at their neighborhood school. Transitional kindergarten is handled differently: TK placement is made by the District Office, not by the school.

Attendance areas on the district's map

• Elementary (15): Atherwood Elementary School, Berylwood Elementary School, Big Springs Elementary School, Crestview Elementary School, Garden Grove Elementary School, Katherine Elementary School, Knolls Elementary School, Madera Elementary School, Mountain View Elementary School, Park View Elementary School, Santa Susana Elementary School, Sycamore Elementary School, Township Elementary School, White Oak Elementary School, Wood Ranch Elementary School
• Middle (3): Hillside Middle School, Sinaloa Middle School, Valley View Middle School
• High (2): Royal High School, Simi Valley High School

Coming from (or leaving for) another district

Families who live outside the district first fill out a School of Choice application for the school they want, then complete an Interdistrict Transfer Permit that must be approved by their home district. Families in other Ventura County districts submit a paper form to their home district; families in Los Angeles Unified use LAUSD's online permit application (its window for 2026–27 ran February 1 to April 30, 2026); families elsewhere follow their home district's process. Once the home district approves, the permit goes to Simi Valley Unified.

The district may turn down permits when a grade level or program is full, using class-size averages it publishes (for example 23 students in grades K–3 and 35 in core classes in grades 6–12), when a student has been chronically absent, or when a student is under an expulsion order. An approved permit lasts through the highest grade at that school; a new one is needed when moving from TK to kindergarten, elementary to middle, or middle to high school, or after a change of address. Denials can be appealed within the district and then to the County Board of Education within 30 calendar days.

Only district residents may enter the fundamental school kindergarten lottery. Santa Susana High accepts out-of-district students, who apply for their permit after they are accepted. For families leaving Simi Valley, the window for 2027–28 requests is January 6 to April 23, 2027.

The district's page

Enrolling

For kindergarten through grade 12, families enroll at their neighborhood school, which provides the forms; for 2026–27, neighborhood enrollment began February 9, 2026. Bring the enrollment form, a copy of the official county-issued birth certificate, proof of residency (a current electric, gas or water bill, or a lease or rental agreement) and up-to-date immunization records. Kindergarten students also need an oral health assessment from a dentist, and a health exam is recommended.

Transitional kindergarten packets are returned to the District Office at 101 West Cochran Street with proof of birth, proof of address, immunization records and a TK age eligibility form; for 2026–27, priority TK enrollment ran until March 20, 2026, and later packets were placed as space allowed. For 2026–27, TK was open to children born September 2, 2021, through September 1, 2022, and kindergarten to children born on or before September 1, 2021. The district holds annual TK and kindergarten information nights over Zoom (in December 2025 for the 2026–27 year).

TK and kindergarten are full-day and free, and so are student breakfast and lunch.

The district's page