In addition to Brentwood Science Magnet Elementary, the area is served by Kenter Canyon Elementary School and Brockton Elementary School, all three of which are part of Los Angeles Unified School District. Locals attending public school usually go to either Emerson Middle School or Paul Revere Charter Middle School, which just had its 50th birthday; the local public high schools are University High School (named for nearby UCLA, formerly Warren G. Harding High and planned as Sawtelle High School, see Sawtelle), just outside the neighborhood’s boundaries in West Los Angeles and often thought to be located in Brentwood, and Palisades Charter High School, in the nearby neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.
Brentwood is also home to several private schools, including Brentwood School, St. Martin of Tours Catholic School, and the Archer School for Girls, located in what was once the historic Eastern Star Home. The old Eastern Star Home can be seen as the setting of the “Mar Vista Rest Home” in the movie Chinatown (1974).
One of the two campuses of Mount St. Mary’s College, a Roman Catholic liberal arts college for women, is located in the hills above Brentwood (the other is located in downtown Los Angeles, near USC).