Palos Verdes High School

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Official name	Palos Verdes High School
Principal	Christopher Bowles
Main Office Location	600 Cloyden Road
Classroom Wings	420 Cloyden Road Palos Verdes Estates, California
Website	[1]
Enrollment	1,770
Established	1962
Mascot	Sea King
School colors	Red and Black

Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho Del Mar High School. Located by the ocean in Palos Verdes Estates, the school is part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District.

Originally opened in 1962, the school earned many awards for academic and athletic excellence before declining enrollments due to demographic changes led the District to close PVHS in 1991, combining three existing high schools into Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. The campus remained in use as Palos Verdes Intermediate School, with the former intermediate schools having been closed as part of the reorganization. In 2002, climbing enrollments and overcrowding at Peninsula High School led the district to reopen Palos Verdes High School.

The athletic teams are known as the Sea Kings, using the colors red and black and a logo resembling the Greek god Poseidon.

PVHS is home to the Palos Verdes Road Warriors, the only high school team in the nation to have participated in the DARPA Grand Challenge.

[edit] Notable alumni

Former Senator George Felix Allen (R-VA) Class of '70,
Billy Martin (tennis star, now UCLA varsity coach) Class of '74,
Bill Laimbeer (Detroit Pistons star and current WNBA coach) Class of '75,
Andrew Daulton Lee (convicted of espionage, subject of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman, from Robert Lindsey's book of the same name) Class of '70,
Evan C. Kim (actor) Class of '71
Ryan Crawford (Pastor), Class of 1981
Lisa Barnes (actress) Class of '77
Dana Rohrabacher (U.S. House of Representatives)
John Philbin (actor)
Douglas Flanagan(L-CA) adviser to Bob Dole Class of '70
Brendan Graetz adult model and philanthropist Class of '72
Pete Sampras (tennis great) (attended 1985-88 but did not graduate)
Brooke Theiss (actress) class of '87
Rick Griffin (artist and illustrator), Class of 1962