SCHOOL REPORT : $997,246 Anti-Drug Program Planned : <i> News from the L.A. Unified School Board meeting.</i>

The Los Angeles Board of Education on Monday accepted a state grant of $997,246 to begin a Community Drug-Free School Zones Project at Jefferson and Manual Arts high schools in South-Central Los Angeles. The project will include several measures aimed at enlisting community support to reduce student drug and alcohol use and to protect students from drug-related problems in or near the schools. Grants went to about a dozen schools in California.

The board also:

Honored winners in this year’s junior high school Academic Pentathlon. Sepulveda Junior High School in Sepulveda won top honors for the third year in a row. Second place went to Porter Junior High in Granada Hills and third was won by Emerson Junior High in Westwood. White Junior High in Carson placed fourth and Palms Junior High in West Los Angeles was fifth. Students at Griffith Junior High in the East Side won the “super quiz” event.

FUTURE FILE

NEW SCHOOL: A new elementary school in Bell will open this summer to take some pressure off crowded neighborhood schools. For the coming school year only, sixth-graders will be included. After that the school, to be named later, will encompass kindergarten through fifth grade.

Classroom Capsule

The district’s Division of Adult and Occupational Education operates 26 community adult schools, 12 employment preparation centers, 6 skills centers and the Business and Industry School. About 400,000 students attend each year.