Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
in Rolling Hills Estates, California, USA
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School is a public high school in Rolling Hills Estates, Los Angeles County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The attendance area includes highly affluent cities of Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Estates, Rolling Hills, as well as Palos Verdes Estates.
It is considered to be a top-ranked school in the Los Angeles, CA Metro Area (#11) and California (#34), according to US News & World Report.
History
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) consolidated its three high schools Palos Verdes High School, Miraleste High School and Rolling Hills High School, into one campus in 1991 when enrollment had declined. The former Rolling Hills High School campus, which originally opened in 1964, was selected as the site for the consolidated high school following the 1991 unification of the district’s three high schools. Among the available campuses — Palos Verdes High, Miraleste High, and Rolling Hills High — it offered the largest facilities, most modern infrastructure, and highest student capacity, making it the most practical choice to accommodate all students under one roof.
As a result, it became home to the newly formed Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, serving the entire peninsula’s secondary student population. When overcrowding became a problem after 1999, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District elected to re-open Palos Verdes High School.
Demographics
In the 2023–24 year, there were 2,175 students enrolled in Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. Enrollment by race/ethnicity was 39.40% Asian, 32.55% White, 15.26% Hispanic, 2.21% Black, and 10.30% other.
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