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Encyclopedia > Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District
Official Name Palos Verdes Unified School District
President Barbara Lucky
Location 3801 Via La Selva

Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 Palos Verdes Estates is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ...

Website [www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/]
Student Population About 11,900 Students
Contact Number 310 - 378 - 9966

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) is a school district School districts are a form of special-purpose district in the United States (amongst some other places) which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. ...


based in Palos Verdes, California. It is headed by a superintendent - Walker Williams - Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. ...


and governed by a five-person, publicly elected school board.


The current board members are:

  • Barbara Lucky, President (term expires in 2009)
  • Malcolm S. Sharp, Vice President (term expires in 2009)
  • Ginny Snider, Clerk (term expires in 2009)
  • Dora de la Rosa (term expires in 2007)
  • Dave Tomblin (term expires in 2007)

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

High School Principals:

  • In addition, three high school students are appointed as student board members. For the school year 2006-07, they are Kristen Hunter, Randy Lair and David Lluncor. 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 (SCROC); on Thursday, December 7, 2006, she was elected Clerk of the SCROC Board.
  • Parts of the city of Rancho Palos Verdes, known as Eastview, are served both by the PVPUSD, and the Los Angeles Unified School District (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.
  • The school district has one of the highest rated API scores in California [1] and has one of the highest average SAT scores [2] and one of the highest percentage of students successfully completing the Advanced Placement exams [3] in the country. There are two high schools, Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly called Rolling Hills High School) and Palos Verdes High School (the latter located just a half block from the Pacific Ocean).

Contents

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (also known as Peninsula High, Pen High, or PVPHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (the others being the recently re-opened Palos Verdes High School and Rancho Del Mar High School). ... Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho Del Mar High School. ... Palos Verdes Estates is a city in Los Angeles County, California, USA on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. ... Location of Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1973-09-07 [2] Government  - Mayor Thomas D. Long [1] Area  - City  13. ... Location of Rolling Hills in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1957-01-24 [2] Government  - Mayor B. Allen Lay [1] Area  - City  3. ... Location of Rolling Hills Estates in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1957-09-18 [2] Government  - Mayor Susan Seamans [1] Area  - City  3. ... The Los Angeles Unified School District (the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ... Crestwood Elementary School can refer to: Crestwood Elementary School (California) Crestwood Elementary School (Kentucky) Crestwood Elementary School (Virginia) Category: ... For other uses, see SAT (disambiguation). ... Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ... Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (also known as Peninsula High, Pen High, or PVPHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (the others being the recently re-opened Palos Verdes High School and Rancho Del Mar High School). ... Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho Del Mar High School. ...

Schools

Primary Schools

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

Secondary Schools

Intermediate Schools

  • Miraleste Intermediate School
  • Palos Verdes Intermediate School
  • Ridgecrest Intermediate School

Miraleste Intermediate School (MIS) is one of three public middle schools in Rancho Palos Verdes (the others being Palos Verdes Intermediate School and Ridgecrest Intermediate School). ... Palos Verdes Intermediate School (PVIS) is one of three public middle schools in Rancho Palos Verdes (the others being Miraleste Intermediate School and Ridgecrest Intermediate School). ... Ridgecrest Intermediate School is a part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. ...

High Schools

Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho Del Mar High School. ... Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (also known as Peninsula High, Pen High, or PVPHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (the others being the recently re-opened Palos Verdes High School and Rancho Del Mar High School). ... Rancho Del Mar High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School and Palos Verdes High School). ...

References

  1. ^ Palos Verdes Local Educational Agency Report. California Department of Education. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.
  2. ^ School Wise Press School Snapshot: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. School Wise Press. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.
  3. ^ SAT, ACT and AP Test Results in California. California Department of Education. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.

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EAST PENINSULA EDUCATION COUNCIL, INC. v. PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (5881 words)
Palos Verdes Peninsula is an affluent residential community where the high percentage of college-educated parents, the high educational aspirations of the students, and the high average family income have influenced the college preparatory orientation of the District's secondary schools.
They also claimed that the District's decision violated their federal and state constitutional right to associate and to vote in that the District's decision to close Miraleste and potential sale of the property would in effect deny plaintiffs their right to associate for the purpose of voting on a new east side school district.
Nor is it unreasonable under CEQA to require a school board to consider the issues of significant effects and cumulative impacts in its assessment of whether a transfer of students is exempt from the act.
Rancho Palos Verdes City Council (529 words)
School Superintendent Ira Toibin explained that it took special legislation to enable residents of Eastview, which is part of Rancho Palos Verdes, to have the option to attend schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) or in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD).
Eastview parents, whose children attend Peninsula schools, are not permitted to vote for PVPUSD school board members and they pay taxes on a bond that LAUSD passed, but they do not pay taxes on the bond that PVPUSD passed that is being used to modernize the various schools that Eastview residents attend.
The Board concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District is only beginning to see the financial implications of this mandate and expressed their belief that if things don’t change, the financial outlook in the next four to five years will be worse.
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