Editing Monterey, California (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Pool - Naval Postgraduate School - DSC06802.JPG|thumb|right|[[Naval Postgraduate School]] is the only [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] location of the [[Naval University System|U.S. Naval University System]].]]
Several institutions of higher education in the area: the [[Defense Language Institute]], located on the [[Presidio of Monterey, California]]; the [[Naval Postgraduate School]], on the site of a former resort hotel; the [[Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey]] (a graduate school of [[Middlebury College]]); and [[Monterey Peninsula College]], part of the [[California Community Colleges system]]. The federal institutions (the Defense Language Institute (DLI) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)) are important employers in and strongly associated with the city.

[[California State University, Monterey Bay]] and the [[Monterey College of Law]] are located at the site of the former [[Fort Ord]] in neighboring [[Seaside, California|Seaside]]. CSU Monterey Bay has developed several programs in marine and watershed sciences.

The [[Monterey Peninsula Unified School District]] operates [[Monterey High School (Monterey, California)|a high school]], a middle school and three elementary schools.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Schools|url=http://www.mpusd.k12.ca.us/ourschools|publisher=[[Monterey Peninsula Unified School District]]|access-date=September 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920022014/http://www.mpusd.k12.ca.us/ourschools|archive-date=September 20, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Private schools include [[Santa Catalina School]] (girls, co-ed elementary and middle school) and [[Trinity Christian High School (Monterey)|Trinity Christian High School]] (co-ed).