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Hansen Dam in Lake View Terrace, CA

Lake View Terrace is a suburb district in the north east quadrant of the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.

Surrounding areas include the Angeles National Forest, Little Tujunga Canyon, Big Tujunga Canyon, Hansen Dam, Kagel Canyon, and a portion of the Verdugo Mountains. The community lies adjacent to the communities of San Fernando, Shadow Hills, Sunland, Sun Valley, and Pacoima. The area shares the 91342 ZIP code with Sylmar. Lake View Terrace is accessed by the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210). Major thoroughfares include Foothill Boulevard, Van Nuys Boulevard, Osborne Street, and Wheatland Avenue.

The community is middle-class and ethnically mixed, including Latinos, African-Americans, Whites and Asians.

The area hosts a large equestrian community, and is one of the few remaining residential areas in the City of Los Angeles that has private homes zoned for horsekeeping.

Lake View Terrace gained international notoriety as the location of the beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991. Lake View Terrace is also the setting of much of the 2008 film Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson, although the area used for the neighborhood was actually filmed in Walnut, California.

[edit] Demographics

In 2009, the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Lake View Terrace neighborhood statistics: population: 11,803; median household income: $67,985.^[1]

[edit] Fire service

Van Nuys Boulevard Looking South from Lake View Terrace

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 24 (Sunland/Shadow Hills) is in the area.

[edit] Education

[edit] Primary and secondary schools

[edit] Public schools

The Los Angeles Unified School District serves the community.

Elementary schools serving the community include:

Brainard Avenue Elementary School
Fenton Charter Elementary School

All of Lake View Terrace is zoned to Maclay Middle School in the Pacoima neighborhood; some sections are jointly zoned to Maclay and Mount Gleason Middle School in the Sunland neighborhood.

All of Lake View Terrace is zoned to Verdugo Hills High School in the Tujunga neighborhood. Some sections of Lake View Terrace are jointly zoned to Verdugo Hills and San Fernando High School in the City of San Fernando.

State charter schools include: