Dale Junior High School

The Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) is a public school district serving portions of the Orange County cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma, and Stanton. It oversees seven junior high schools (7-8), seven high schools (9-12), one secondary selective magnet school (Oxford Academy), one special education school, and two alternative education sites.

Its superintendent, Elizabeth Novack, was fired in December 2013 without public explanation. The Board of Trustees appointed Michael Matsuda, the district's former BTSA Coordinator who also currently serves as Secretary on the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees.

The school district has gained brief national notoriety twice: once in 1968 when members of the organization Mothers Organized for Moral Stability, inspired by the information in the pamphlet "Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?", flooded a school board meeting and demanded that a course in sex education at the school be suspended, and again in 1978 when it banned the novels Silas Marner and Gone with the Wind from the school curriculum. The books and the course have long since been reinstated.

In 2024, the school district has received backlash from the local community as a result of its decision for a mass reduction in force (RIF), with the intent to lay off 10% of teachers (119 out of 1,259) increasing to now 253 teachers district-wide. In response to recent backlash, Michael Matsuda claims the layoffs were because of the expiration of federal funding at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and a drop in student enrollment. As of May 2024, the district has released a joint statement with the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association that they’ve rescinded all RIF notifications.

Anaheim Union High School District closed the site of Orangeview Junior High School in the Summer of 2025 to become the future Hope School. The Orangeview students and staff members moved to Western High School property to become one shared school. During this merger, the community faces local families taking their children to other schools in or outside the Anaheim Union High School District.

In January 2025, Michael Matsuda resigned for District Superintendent later having the position filled by Assistant Superintendent Jaron Freid