| Palm Desert High School | |
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| 74910 Aztec Road, Palm Desert, CA 92260 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1986 |
| Principal | Robert Hicks |
| Information | (760) 862-4300 |
| Colors Mascot |
Red and Gold Aztec |
| Website | PDHS Home Page |
Palm Desert High School is a secondary school located in Palm Desert, California. The school is a part of the Desert Sands Unified School District.
Palm Desert High School was founded in 1986. For the 2004-2005 year the enrollment was 1902.[1] Many of Palm Desert High School students come from Palm Desert Charter Middle School (however some La Quinta Middle School, Indio Middle School, and Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School students have attended PDHS in the past).
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It offers Advanced Placement and Honors courses. In 2009, PDHS reached the standardized testing score of 810.
Palm Desert's mascot is the Aztec (originally in 1985, the "Sun Devil" later was rejected by concerned parents worried it would depict Satanism and was inappropriate for public schools). It has notable tennis, track, golf, swimming, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, football, wrestling, and water polo teams. Its main rival is La Quinta High School, which occasionally has to use some of Palm Desert's amenities. Also, a newly formed Aztec Equestrian Team was founded in the school year of 08'-09' and is the first Equestrian Team in the Coachella Valley.
Palm Desert High School is currently being reconstructed as part of the District's $100 million bond used for PDHS, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Eisenhower schools. The new campus has been built to the north of the old campus using the former sports fields for land. The project is to be completely finished by the beginning of the 2011-12 school year. The new fields will be opened by the following year. The project budget is estimated at $65 million dollars. The new classrooms have state-of-the-art facilities. Classrooms will have a capacity for 10 computers. A new gymnasium has been built to seat more than 500 students.