
Manhattan Beach Unified School District maintains its ranking as third in the state for kindergarten through 12th grade districts, right behind San Marino Unified and La Canada Unified, according to the district’s analysis of the Academic Performance Index scores released by the California Department of Education last week.

Football teams from Mira Costa and Redondo look to even their records Friday after suffering season-opening losses. Both squads face talented opponents with Mira Costa hosting defending Ocean League champion Inglewood and Redondo taking on visiting Serra, the reigning CIF Western Division champions. Both games kick off at 7 p.m.