Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) is a school district
headquartered in Palos Verdes Estates
, California.
The current board members are:
The current district officials are:
Intermediate School Principals:
High School Principals:
(formerly called Rolling Hills High School) and Palos Verdes High School
(the latter located just a half block from the Pacific Ocean).
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...
headquartered in Palos Verdes Estates
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Palos Verdes Estates is a city, incorporated in 1939, in Los Angeles County, California, USA on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The city was masterplanned by the noted American landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The population was 13,438 at the 2010 census, up from 13,340 in the...
, California.
Governance
The district is headed by a superintendent - Walker Williams - and governed by a five-person, publicly elected school board.The current board members are:
- Malcolm S. Sharp, President (term expires in 2009)
- Larry Vanden Bos, Vice President (term expires in 2011)
- Dora de la Rosa, (term expires in 2011)
- Barbara Lucky (term expires in 2009)
- Ginny Snider (term expires in 2009)
The current district officials are:
- Walker Williams - Superintendent of Schools, Former Deputy Superintendent of Human Resources
- Pearl Iizuka - Deputy Superintendent of Business Services
- William Franchini - Deputy Superintendent of Human Resources, Former long-time Executive Director of the Torrance Teachers Association
- Dr. Susan Adams Liberati - Deputy Superintendent of Educational Services, former Assistant Superintendent in Beverly Hills Unified School District, former administrator in Torrance Unified School District, married to Dr. Mario Liberati, Senior Director of Certificated Human Resources at Torrance Unified School District
Intermediate School Principals:
- Patrick Corwin
- Frank Califano
- Beth Hadley
High School Principals:
- Mitzi Cress - Palos Verdes Peninsula High SchoolPalos Verdes Peninsula High SchoolPalos Verdes Peninsula High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
since 2010. Used to be Kelly Johnson 1991-2010 - Christopher Bowles - Palos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA...
since reopening in late 1990s
- In addition, three high school students are appointed as student board members. For the school year 2007-08, they are Charlotte Poplawski and Debra Chang. Past student board members have included three children (Jason, Justin and Jodi) of current board member Ginny Snider. Snider is also the PVPUSD representative on the Board of Trustees for the Southern California Regional Occupational Center (SoCalROC); on Thursday, December 7, 2006, she was elected Clerk of the SCROC Board.
Attendance areas
- The PVPUSD serves the cities of Palos Verdes EstatesPalos Verdes Estates, CaliforniaPalos Verdes Estates is a city, incorporated in 1939, in Los Angeles County, California, USA on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The city was masterplanned by the noted American landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The population was 13,438 at the 2010 census, up from 13,340 in the...
, Rancho Palos VerdesRancho Palos Verdes, CaliforniaRancho Palos Verdes is a city in Los Angeles County, California that was incorporated on September 7, 1973. The population was 41,643 at the 2010 census...
, Rolling HillsRolling Hills, CaliforniaRolling Hills is a city in the Palos Verdes Hills, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,860, down from 1,871 at the 2000 census...
, and Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates, CaliforniaRolling Hills Estates is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 8,067 at the 2010 census, up from 7,676 at the 2000 census....
.
- Parts of the city of Rancho Palos Verdes, known as Eastview, are served both by the PVPUSD, and the Los Angeles Unified School DistrictLos Angeles Unified School DistrictLos Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California. It is the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population...
(LAUSD). Two LAUSD-owned schools fall within the city of Rancho Palos Verdes: Dodson Middle School and Crestwood Elementary School.
- In 1999, an optional attendance boundary was agreed upon by the two school districts in which residents in Eastview could opt to either send their children to PVPUSD schools or LAUSD schools. Middle school-aged students in the area may attend Miraleste Intermediate School and high school-aged students attend both Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates and Palos Verdes High School in Palos Verdes Estates. The LAUSD school, Crestwood Elementary, serves a sizeable number of Eastview children. Many families live in the Eastview area in order for their children to attend Crestwood.
Schools
There are two high schools, Palos Verdes Peninsula High SchoolPalos Verdes Peninsula High School
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
(formerly called Rolling Hills High School) and Palos Verdes High School
Palos Verdes High School
Palos Verdes High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA...
(the latter located just a half block from the Pacific Ocean).
Elementary Schools
- Cornerstone Elementary School
- Dapplegray Elementary School
- Lunada Bay Elementary School
- Mira Catalina Elementary School
- Miraleste Satellite
- Montemalaga Elementary School
- Point Vicente Elementary School
- Rancho Vista Elementary School
- Silver Spur Elementary School
- Soleado Elementary School
- Vista Grande Elementary School
Intermediate Schools
- Miraleste Intermediate SchoolMiraleste Intermediate SchoolMiraleste Intermediate School is one of three public middle schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District .-Overview:...
- Palos Verdes Intermediate SchoolPalos Verdes Intermediate SchoolPalos Verdes Intermediate School is one of three public middle schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District . The school is located on the campus of the former Margate Intermediate School, which closed in 1985...
- Ridgecrest Intermediate SchoolRidgecrest Intermediate SchoolRidgecrest Intermediate School is one of three public middle schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District...
High Schools
- Palos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA...
- Palos Verdes Peninsula High SchoolPalos Verdes Peninsula High SchoolPalos Verdes Peninsula High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
- Rancho Del Mar High SchoolRancho Del Mar High SchoolRancho Del Mar High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula . Located on Crest Road in Rolling Hills, the school is part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District.Rancho Del Mar was opened in 1984 on the former site of La Cresta Elementary School...