Green Acres Elementary School is located in the Live Oak area. The school has a large library that is stocked with…More more than 10,000 books and includes a computer center with high-speed Internet access on 18 computers.</p> <p>Green Acres Elementary is where the first Life Lab was created — in 1978, by a teacher who built a small garden in one corner of the school. Life Lab is now a science curriculum in most schools in Santa Cruz and in 500 schools across the nation.</p>

Good Shepherd Catholic School was built in 1963 and the campus includes a computer lab, an auditorium, a science lab…More and 12 classrooms. There are nearly 7 acres of playing fields available to students. Both the fields and the auditorium are available to rent to the public for events.</p> <p>The school focuses on teaching students a Catholic-themed education including Catholic core values. The school's mission is to "to meet the needs of the whole child, fostering each one's unique intellectual, spiritual, and moral development." The school works with children in preschool through eighth grade.</p>

The Garfield Park branch of the Santa Cruz Pubic Libraries has a rich history. The building, which still is…More fundamentally the same, was designed by William H. Weeks, who also designed Santa Cruz High School, Branciforte Elementary School, and the Palomar Hotel, and was paid for by a Carnegie Corporation grant, one of four awarded to build libraries in Santa Cruz in 1913. Garfield Park was completed in 1915. The branch offers a homework center for students 17 and younger, complete with nine computer terminals with Internet access, educational games and word processing programs. The library allows K-12 students to print 10 pages for free. In addition, an adult computer center is available with four terminals. Printing in that area cost 15 cents per page.</p> <p>The number for the reference desk is 831-427-7713.</p> <p>The email address is elibrary@santacruzpl.org</p>