hub of the Sawtelle neighborhood with its attendant tennis courts, children's playground, skate plaza, seasonal outdoor pool, recreation center and Japanese garden. It is at the end of Stoner Avenue. Education Public Schools Sawtelle is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District These elementary schools serve the incorporated Sawtelle area: Brockton Avenue School Nora Sterry Elementary School Westwood Elementary School These middle schools serve the Sawtelle area: Emerson Middle School Daniel Webster Middle School The Sawtelle area is within the University High School attendance district. Private Schools Arete Preparatory Academy Brawerman Elementary School New Horizon School New Roads Elementary School Park Century School Saint Sebastian School Southern California Montessori School Wildwood School Asahi Gakuen, a weekend Japanese supplementary school system, operates its Santa Monica campus (サンタモニカ校･高等部 Santamonika-kō kōtōbu) at Daniel Webster Middle in Sawtelle. At one time all high school classes in the Asahi Gakuen system were held at the Santa Monica campus. As of 1986 students took buses from as far away as Orange County to go to the high school classes of the Santa Monica campus. three campuses (Santa Monica, Orange, and Torrance) have high school classes. Veterans Administration hospital, office buildings, and national cemetery The grounds of the former Veterans Home, which was established in 1888, along with a cemetery and hospital for former soldiers and sailors, is also referred to as Sawtelle. This area, containing former hospital and apartment buildings and the historical veteran's home, and now converted to research and office space, is mostly north of Wilshire Boulevard. Since 1977, this area has formally included the Veterans Affairs (VA) Wadsworth Medical Center (now the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center), which is south of Wilshire Boulevard from the former veteran's home site (see illustration above). This major hospital serves as part of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The veterans home and hospital areas are both located west of the modern Interstate 405 freeway (San Diego Freeway), which bisects this federal parcel of land. It was part of a controversial plan in the 1960s, in which the property was proposed to be exchanged for Hazard Park in Boyle Heights, which would become home to a new VA hospital. The plan was shelved after seven years because of heavy public opposition., and instead, the present West Los Angeles Medical Center was built as the new hospital, in 1977. The Los Angeles National Cemetery, which