The CUSD/CHS Search Engine...

From this page, you can conduct full, complex searches on the entire hierarchy of the Claremont Unified School District website. [Please note, such searches might not include the contents of all the personal websites of our many user-accounts. Searches are generally limited to the District institutional websites.]

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Search Help

To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require CLAREMONT, require students

Finds "CLAREMONT Students", "CLAREMONT students", and "students of type CLAREMONT".
Does not find the lowercase "claremont student", nor the abbreviated "CLAREMONT student".

Translated: forbid CUSD, require students

Finds "Perl students", "graduate students", and lowercase "cusd students".
Does not find "CUSD definitions" nor "CUSD students".

Translated: prefer CUSD, require students

Finds "Perl students", "CUSD students", and "CUSD Students".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "CUSD students"

Finds "CUSD students".
Does not find "CUSD Students" nor "students of type CUSD".

Translated: require cusd (case insensitive), require words starting with "teach"

Finds "CUSD teaching", "cusd teachers", "Cusd teach-in".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: require Venus (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images

First lists "pictures and images of Venus", then "Venus pictures".
Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor forbidden "picture of planet Venus".

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "frog"

Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *frog*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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