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Palos Verdes High School
Location
Map
600 Cloyden Road, Palos Verdes Estates, California
Information
Established1962
PrincipalChristopher Bowles
Enrollment1,904 (from fact sheet for 2007 to 2008 school year)[1]
Color(s)Red, Black, and White
MascotSea King
Websitehttp://www.pvhigh.com

Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA (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 (PVPHS). 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. By the first year, enrollment reached a remarkable 470 students.

Notable Organizations and Clubs

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.

The school also has an award-winning drama program that was chosen to represent the United States in the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in 2009. The drama department has won numerous awards at DTASC competitions.

The school is also known for its broadcast journalism program Live from 205 (referring to the program's room number), which has won several awards at the STN National Convention from 2005 through 2008, including the Excellence Award for best high school weekly news show in the country in the 2007 and 2008 competitions.[2][3]

The school's science olympiad team typically advances to the state competition each year, and in 2008 achieved fourth place in the competitive Los Angeles Regionals.

Sports

Fall Winter Spring
Football Girls Basketball Softball
Cross Country Boys Basketball Baseball
Boys Water Polo Girls Soccer Boys Lacrosse
Girls Tennis Boys Soccer Girls Lacrosse
Girls Golf Girls Water Polo Boys Golf
Girls Volleyball Track
Equestrian Boys Volleyball
Surf Team Boys Swimming
Rowing Girls Swimming
Boys Tennis


The athletic teams (known as the Sea Kings) are represented by the colors red, black, and white, and compete in the Bay League for most sports. The nickname comes from the Greek god Poseidon, the school's official mascot. Their cross-town rival is the PVPHS Panthers, whom they battle in various sports for the "King of the Hill". This is a recent development coming a few years after the reopening in 2002, as the teams were not closely aligned or regularly matched up immediately thereafter due to sizeable differences in enrollment. The original cross-town rival was the Rolling Hills High School Titans, the original school housed on the PVPHS campus before district wide consolidation took effect.

In 1975, a notable date in the school's sports history, the Sea Kings won the CIF Boys Basketball Championship, defeating perennial champion Verbum Dei High School in the semi-finals in one of the biggest upsets in California high school basketball history. Palos Verdes was led by future NBA all-star Bill Laimbeer, while Verbum Dei's biggest star was David Greenwood, who became Laimbeer's teammate on the 1990 Detroit Pistons NBA championship team.

The Sea Kings have won many CIF titles over the years in several other boys and girls sports, and a few teams have even been recognized at the state or national level. Circa 1990, it claimed a national championship in both girls basketball as well as boys soccer, as recognized by USA Today. Most recently, the school has claimed CIF titles in baseball (2005), boys lacrosse, and in boys soccer for both the 2006-07 and the 2007-08 seasons.

A very popular and controversial club on campus is known as the secret of the four hundred and twenty. Rumored to be related to the Free Mason society these men of a sacred cloak carry out elaborate gatherings known as "seshes." Little is known of the participants expect the reputation of having "eyes of diablo."

The Red Tide, is a student-run spirit organization that supports the sports teams. Started specifically to cheer for boys basketball, the Red Tide is a major presence at most games, where an entire section of the bleachers is often a sea of red. Their taglines include "Roll Tide," "Tritons Up," and "Red Tide Nation."

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ Palos Verdes High School Profile Data 2007-2008
  2. ^ Welcome to Live From 205
  3. ^ Honors
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