About Our Community School Our Community School (OCS) provides parents and students with an alternative to the traditional public school. At OCS, students develop a life-long love of learning, feel safe and valued within their school community and are excited about school. The stakeholders, students, parents, teachers and administrators, work together to create an inviting and engaging learning community wherein the students become effective problem solvers, critical thinkers and self-motivated learners. All students are proficient in language arts, mathematics, science, history and the humanities, as well as the visual and performing arts because OCS nurtures the whole child, addressing the intellectual, social, emotional, creative, physical and collaborative aspects of your child's education. Our Community School offers small class sizes where your child will receive more individual attention; A Music Program twice weekly; Democratic classrooms where students create codes of conduct, develop and vote on rules to address ongoing classroom issues and provide peer support; School wide Community Service programs developed by each class; Student Council, and Bi-monthly all school assemblies, led by the students, which provides a venue for each class to share knowledge, experiences, play Orff instruments and sing, creating a stronger sense of community. OSC also offers special education teachers and service providers who are hired through LAUSD, and offer on-site assistance to students who qualifty. Our goal is to prepare your child, our student, for active, rewarding membership in our community and our democratic way of life. Our ethnically and socio-economically diverse body of students learn about people and culture, are immersed in democratic practices, participate in conflict-resolution and whole class discussions and will have opportunities to self-reflect. Every child at OCS is honored.