Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District
Superintendent	Walker Williams
Contact number	(310) 378-9966
Students	~11,900
President	Malcolm S. Sharp
Location	3801 Via La Selva, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274
Website	http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) is a school district based in Palos Verdes, California.

It is headed by a superintendent - Walker Williams - and governed by a five-person, publicly elected school board.

The current board members are:

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 (SoCalROC); 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).

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