The scenes of the kids' high school ("Clark Secondary School") were filmed at El Segundo High School,
at 640 Main Street, in El Segundo, CA (the same high school attended by "Joan of Arcadia").

El Segundo is just south of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and north of Manhattan Beach.

In the shot above, the camera is looking east, at the main entrance to the high school's main building
(which faces Main Street). In the shot below (including the school sign), the camera is looking southeast,
towards at a matching brick school building just south of the main building.

The track & field scenes, with 'Seth' running, (then being insulted when he fails to keep up
with the other runners), were also shot at El Segundo High, on the south side of the
school's main (oval) track, behind the south grandstands.

( In the photo above, the camera is looking east/southeast. )

When Seth & Evan first arrive at school, Seth wants to buy a 'Red Bull" drink at a nearby mini-mart,
so he parks illegally in the faculty parking lot (and his car gets towed). That parking lot scene
(above) was shot in a small parking lot on the south side of El Segundo High.

         

In the photo above, the camera is looking north from Mariposa Ave, just east of Standard St.

The shot below (of high school kids crossing the street, heading for the school), was shot next
to the faculty parking lot, looking west up E. Mariposa Avenue (just east of Standard St).

After parking in the faculty lot, Seth and Evan walk across to a mini-mart to get Seth's "Red Bull".
In the store, they look at a photo of a topless girl on the cover of a men's magazine, and discuss
their chances of scoring with prospective girlfriends. On the way out of the store, they are
accosted by a student who spits on Seth, and tells him he can't come to his party.

It would have been a long walk from the school... Those mini-mart scenes were shot at the
"Overland Mini-Market" at 4273 Overland Ave, in Culver City, CA. ( That's a good 10 miles
northeast of the high school. ) The store is in a strip mall at the west/northwest corner
of Overland & Braddock Drive ...just two miles north of the Fox Hills Mall.


                      

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After the cops accidentally smash up their own squad car, they decide to report that it was
stolen and trashed.  So they drive it to an empty parking lot at night, set it on fire, then let
"McLovin'" shoot it full of holes. This parking lot scene was shot (literally) in Lot F10
at the Cal-State Northridge campus. The lot is located at the northwest corner of
Lassen Street & Lindley Avenue, in Northridge (in the San Fernando Valley).

The movie's final scene is shot inside a mall, where lifelong friends Seth & Evan part,
each heading off in different directions with their new girlfriends.

Those mall scenes were filmed in a real mall. It's the Fox Hills Mall, located in Culver City,
at the east end of the Marina Del Rey (90) Freeway, just east of the San Diego (405) Freeway.

The mall is located between to celebrity cemeteries: Holy Cross and Hillside cemetery.,
and only two miles south of the mini-mart location.

( Former "Diff'rent Strokes" star Gary Coleman was working as a security guard at the
Fox Hills Mall when he got into a scuffle with a mall customer - which made the news. )