LAUSD Carson Street Elementary PACEUP

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Playground and Campus Exterior Upgrade Program (PACE-UP) is a comprehensive initiative to transform its schoolyards into green and sustainable spaces. This initiative aims to ensure that at least 30 percent of the existing hard-surface schoolyard space across all District schools is converted into safe and sustainable green space by 2035. Green schoolyards incorporate natural elements, offering students access to nature, shade, and play areas while promoting collaboration and learning. Core principles guide project scoping, emphasizing outdoor learning environments, physical activity spaces, safety, and accessibility.

The PACE-UP project at Carson Elementary Steam Academy seeks to replace approximately 100,000 square feet of paving in the main and kindergarten playgrounds, along with replacement of playground equipment; greening improvements to include playfields with new irrigation, outdoor learning and activity stations, landscaping, and planting areas; privacy fencing; infrastructure upgrades including sanitary sewer and storm drainage utilities.