Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

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Official name	Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Original name	Rolling Hills High School
Principal	Kelly Johnson
Location	27118 Silver Spur Road Rolling Hills Estates, California
Website	[1]
Enrollment	2,500
Established	1964
Renamed	1991
Mascot	Panther
School colors	black and gold

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (also known as Peninsula High, Pen High, or PVPHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (the others being the recently re-opened Palos Verdes High School and Rancho Del Mar High School). Located at the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and Silver Spur Road, Peninsula High serves the communities of Rolling Hills Estates, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes and Palos Verdes Estates.

The school was formed in 1991 when Miraleste High School, Palos Verdes High School and Rolling Hills High School were merged into a single high school. The former Rolling Hills High School campus (opened 1964) had the highest capacity and was used for the combined school. When overcrowding became a problem after 1999, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District elected to re-open Palos Verdes High School in 2002. As of 2004, the PVPHS student body numbers 3500 students. Now as of 2006, the PVPHS student body is approximately 2500 students.

The athletic mascot is the Panther. Students compete in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, equestrian, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, roller hockey, soccer, softball, surfing, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.

The School yearbook, "La Pantera," is renowned throughout the country as winner of state and national awards and as the largest high school publication in the nation with 663 pages, all in full color. The school newspaper, "The Pen," has been honored with first place recognition through the Southwest Journalism Education Association. In addition "The Pen" won first place with special merit in the 2003 American Scholastic Press Association's national competition. Unlike typical high school websites, the Peninsula High website is a student-run publication.

The school's drama department is also highly acclaimed, frequently winning festival awards.

PVPHS has been designated within the state a California Distinguished School, and nationally a New American High School. It has a blue ribbon from the United States Department of Education.