Encino, CA

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Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Encino has three public and eight private schools, including two private high schools, and the community has been the home of many notable people.

The Los Encinos State Historic Park and the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area are located in Encino.

There are approximately 3,800 businesses employing about 27,000 people.

Encino derives its name from the Rancho Los Encinos (Ranch of Oak Trees), a parcel of land given to three Mission Indians by the Mexican government after the secularization of the California missions beginning in 1834. Rancho Encino was established in 1845.[1]

The 2000 U.S. census counted 41,905 residents in the 9.5-square-mile Encino neighborhood — or 4,411 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities for the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 44,581.[2]

The local economy provides jobs primarily in health care (including one of two Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center hospitals), social services, and professional services (accounting and financial services, real estate, and legal) sectors. There are approximately 3,800 businesses employing about 27,000 people at an annual payroll of $1,400,000,000.[5]

Encino is situated in the central portion of the southern San Fernando Valley and on the north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is flanked on the north by Reseda and the Sepulveda Basin, on the east by Sherman Oaks, on the southeast by Bel-Air, on the south by Brentwood and on the west by Tarzana.[3]

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Education

Forty-six percent of Encino residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high percentage for both the city and the county. The percentage of those residents with a master's degree or higher was also high for the county.[2]

Schools within the Encino boundaries are:[9]

Public
  • Encino Charter Elementary School, LAUSD, 16941 Addison Street
  • Emilita Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 17931 Hatteras Street
  • Fred E. Lull Special Education Center, LAUSD, 17551 Miranda Street
  • Lanai Road Elementary School, LAUSD, 4241 Lanai Road
In 1982 the board considered closing Rhoda Street Elementary School in Encino. In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended closing eight LAUSD schools, including Rhoda Street School.[10] In August 1983 the board publicly considered closing Rhoda, which had 262 students at the time.[11] In 1984 the board voted to close the Rhoda Street School.[12]

Private

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Parks and Recreation

California State Parks operates the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino.[13] The park includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the Garnier Building, a blacksmith shop, a pond, and a natural spring.[14]

The Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area includes the Woodley Worel/Magnus Cricket Complex with the four best grass cricket pitches in the United States. Host to many famous stars and games reflecting cricket's origins in Los Angeles from 1888.[15] Also included in the basin is the Encino Golf Course and the Balboa Golf Course, having a total of 36 golf holes. The Balboa Municipal Golf Course, a short-length golf course, was lengthened by Steve Timm in 2008. The Balboa course has a banquet room, back nine play, cart rental, club rental, classes, a lighted driving range, a lounge, practice chipping greens, practice putting greens, and a restaurant.[16] The Encino Municipal Golf Course, the second course of the two Sepulveda Dam courses, is a medium-length course that was designed by William P. Bell and Sons and opened in 1957. The course has large, tree-lined fairways. The course has the same features that the Balboa course has.[17]

The Balboa Sports Complex in Encino includes a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, a lighted football field, a lighted handball court, an indoor gymnasium without weights and with a capacity for 400 people, an unlighted soccer field, lighted tennis courts, and lighted volleyball courts.[18] The Sepulveda Basin Off-leash Dog Park is a dog park in Encino. The dog park has 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) of leash-free dog area, a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) small dog area, an on-leash picnic area, 100 parking spots, and public telephones.[19] The Sepulveda Garden Center, a community garden area in Encino, has about 16 acres (6.5 ha) of land and 420 garden plots.[20]

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Notable Residents


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