| Pacific Hills School | |
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| Location | |
| 8628 Holloway Drive West Hollywood, CA |
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| Information | |
| Type | Independent school Co-educational |
| Head of school | Peter Temes |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Color(s) | White, Blue, Red |
| Mascot | Bruins |
| Information | (310) 276-3068 |
| Website | www.phschool.org |
Pacific Hills School is a co-educational, college-preparatory independent school located in West Hollywood, California, serving the needs of a diverse student population in grades 6-12.
About 200 students are enrolled at Pacific Hills Schools. In this small student population, more than 20 languages are spoken. Among the faculty, more than 15 languages are spoken (the faculty of 20 includes men and women born in 11 different countries).
Academics at Pacific Hills School are the highest priority of faculty, students and staff. While known throughout the city as a strong sports school - especially because of the school's state-championship boys' basketball team - Pacific Hills offers 12 AP courses, advanced programs in music, Latin and the sciences, and sends a number of students to some of the most elite colleges in the country every year.
In 2010, Dr. Peter Temes became the second head of school in Pacific Hills School's thirty-year history. Dr. Temes was a full-time faculty member at Harvard University, president of the Antioch New England Graduate School, and president of the Great Books Foundation. He remains the Academic Director of the Summer Great Books program for middle-school and high-school students at Stanford University and Amherst College, which he co-founded with David Ward and Ilan Stavans.
Pacific Hills School blends traditional, rigorous college-prep education with a student-centered educational philosophy that makes the independent school one of the few in Los Angeles with a broad range of student experience and ability. The student heading to Yale may well sit next to a student working hard to complete his studies at a more modest level of achievement - and both benefit from being members of a small, warm academic environment that pushes every student to fulfill his or her highest potential.
Average class size is 12, and new sections and courses are created throughout the year at the prompting of students and their families to expand and improve course offerings.