Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

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Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) is a school district based in Palos Verdes, California. It is headed by a superintendent -- presently Walker Williams -- 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)

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.

The PVPUSD serves the cities of Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, and Rolling Hills Estates.

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).