Street, which opened in August 2002 with 145 students, adding a freshman class of 140 every year until 2006, when it reached its full capacity of approximately 525 students. The school moved in 2006 to the former Ninety-Eighth Street Elementary School campus, which had been occupied by the Renaissance Academy. Venice Skills Center, LAUSD, 611 Fifth Avenue Westminster Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1010 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Coeur d'Alene Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 810 Coeur d'Alene Avenue Westside Leadership Magnet School, LAUSD alternative, 104 Anchorage Street Venice High School, LAUSD – The City of Los Angeles includes Venice High School in Venice, as does Google Maps, although Mapping L.A. places it in Mar Vista. Infrastructure Public libraries The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Venice–Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch. Fire department The Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 63, which serves Venice with two engines, a truck, and an ALS rescue ambulance. Police The Los Angeles Police Department serves the area through the Pacific Community Police Station as well as a beach sub-station. Los Angeles County Lifeguards Venice Beach is the headquarters of the Los Angeles County Lifeguards of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is located at 2300 Ocean Front Walk. It is the nation's largest ocean lifeguard organization with over 200 full-time and 700 part-time or seasonal lifeguards. The headquarters building used to be the City of Los Angeles Lifeguard Headquarters until Los Angeles City and Santa Monica Lifeguards were merged into the County in 1975. The Los Angeles County Lifeguards safeguard of beach and of coastline, from San Pedro in the south, to Malibu in the north. Lifeguards also provide paramedic and rescue boat services to Catalina Island, with operations out of Avalon and the Isthmus. Lifeguard Division employs 120 full-time and 600 seasonal lifeguards, operating out of three sectional headquarters, Hermosa, Santa Monica, and Zuma beach. Each of these headquarters staffs a 24-hour EMT-D response unit and are part of the 911 system. In addition to providing for beach safety, Los Angeles County Lifeguards have specialized training for Baywatch rescue boat operations, underwater rescue and recovery, swiftwater rescue, cliff rescue, marine mammal rescue and marine firefighting. Notable people Fiona Apple, singer-songwriter, pianist. Jay Adams, professional skateboarder J.C. Barthel, Venice postmaster and commissioner of supplies, 1920s, president of Chamber of Commerce Charles Benefiel, artist Charles Winchester Breedlove, Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–45, supported legalized tango games Bryan