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Los Angeles Community College District
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, CaliforniaUSA and some of its neighboring cities. Its headquarters are in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the past seventy-seven years LACCD has served as educator to more than three million students. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. Indeed, over half of all LACCD students are older than 25 years of age, and more than a quarter are 35 or older. LACCD educates almost three times as many Latino students and nearly four times as many African-American students as all of the University of California campuses combined. Eighty percent of LACCD students are from underserved populations. The Los Angeles Community College District is the largest community college district in the United States and is one of the largest in the world, the nine colleges within the district offer educational opportunities to students in Los Angeles. The district covers the Los Angeles city limits, San Fernando, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills, Burbank, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Inglewood, Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, Rosemead (southern portion), Montebello, Commerce, East Los Angeles, Vernon, Huntington Park, Bell, Cudahy, Bell Gardens, South Gate, Gardena, Carson, Lomita, Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes, and the unincorporated south Los Angeles neighborhoods of Florence/Firestone, Athens, and Walnut Park. The LACCD consists of nine colleges and covers an area of more than .

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