Original Research by School Decision on Moreno High (continuation)
Moreno High (Continuation) is a small alternative high school located on the campus of Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, serving grades nine through twelve. It is a district school, not a charter, operated by Beverly Hills Unified.
The school's enrollment is very small, with students spread across the upper grades. State assessment data for English language arts, mathematics, and science are suppressed, which is typical for schools with minimal enrollment; California withholds results to protect student privacy when counts are low. No graduation rate or chronic absenteeism data are available in the public record. Because the school serves an alternative population—students who may have struggled in traditional settings or need a different structure—the absence of standard performance metrics does not itself signal weakness; it reflects the nature of the population and the data-suppression rules that apply to small schools.
The school sits in Beverly Hills, an incorporated city within Los Angeles County that is predominantly affluent and car-oriented, with the city divided north and south by Santa Monica Boulevard. Median property values are very high, and homeownership is common, though the area has undergone significant recent shifts. The Beverly Hills Unified School District as a whole serves a small student population across six schools: two elementary campuses (El Rodeo and Horace Mann), a middle school, the main high school, Moreno, and the Hawthorne Campus. The district made two operational changes of note to families: it closed Hawthorne Elementary in summer 2024 and consolidated its students into the newly reopened El Rodeo, and in July 2025 it adopted a Standards-Based Instructional Environment policy that requires political, religious, and socially sensitive classroom topics to be tied directly to the approved curriculum and presented factually and without partisan bias.
Prospective families should understand that Moreno is a continuation high school, a designation that means it serves students who need an alternative path to graduation, often those who have fallen behind, transferred from traditional settings, or are addressing attendance or engagement challenges. The school's role in the district is to provide that pathway, not to offer the breadth of advanced placement, elective, or extracurricular programs of the main high school. For a parent considering Moreno, the relevant questions are whether the school's structure, staffing, and support systems address their student's specific needs, and a direct conversation with the school or district would be essential, as the publicly available data does not capture the program's actual design or outcomes for its student population.
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