Stratton

This is an action by a group of parents who seek to enjoin the trustees of Plumas Unified School District from closing the Meadow Valley Elementary School. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiffs appeal.

The single issue presented is the interpretation and application of section 3106 of the Education Code.

Meadow Valley Elementary School is located in the small community of Meadow Valley. It is within the Plumas County Unified School District, and is approximately eight and a half miles distant from Quincy Elementary *421 School in Quincy. Only the first six grades are taught in the Meadow Valley School. Kindergarten and high school students from Meadow Valley are bussed to Quincy.

After the school district unification in 1949, the board of trustees permitted students to attend either the Meadow Valley or the Quincy School as their parents desired. It was found, however, that on occasion children registered at Meadow Valley, unbeknownst to school or parents, would take the school bus to Quincy and attend the Quincy School for the day. At the request of Meadow Valley parents, accordingly, in 1956, the board adopted the policy that Meadow Valley students could…