Palisades Charter High School (usually colloquially known as Pali or Pali High and abbreviated as PCHS) is an independent charter secondary school in

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, United States. The high school serves the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades, Palisades Highlands, Kenter Canyon, and portions of Brentwood (including Brentwood Circle). Residents in

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, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, may attend Palisades or William Howard Taft Charter High School.Max Taves,
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" '' Palisadian-Post''. February 14, 2007. Retrieved on October 22, 2011. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Formerly directly administered by the Los Angeles Unified School District, the school is now an independent charter school. Its current enrollment numbers 2,903 students. Many students travel long distances to attend Palisades Charter High, which is one of the most highly ranked public high schools in the Los Angeles area. In 2005, Palisades was recognized as a California Distinguished School. In 2015, Palisades was named one of America's Best High Schools by ''Newsweek'' and ''U.S. News & World Report''.

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students are allowed to attend as a feeder school.

History

The school was founded in 1961. It was built for $6 million on a filled-in canyon. At the time it was the most expensive high school in the LA City Schools. The founding principal was Herbert L. Aigner (died in 2000). The Class of 2012 was the 50th graduating class. Prior to the founding, the property was called All Hallows Farm and for many years was owned by the Conway family: Hollywood film director Jack Conway; his wife, actress Virginia Conway — daughter of silent screen star Francis X. Bushman — and their two sons, one of whom, Pat Conway became an actor as well. This property was subsequently rented to actress Debbie Reynolds and her husband, singer Eddie Fisher. It was then taken, some years later, by the State by

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to build the high school. Several members of the class of 1965 were profiled in a ''

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'' magazine article, which led to a best-selling 1976 book by class members

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, '' What Really Happened to the Class of '65?''.Tevi Troy
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, drug experimentation, and sex. Various teachers from the school also were interviewed, among them French teacher Mr. Fred Johnson, and English teachers Miss Jean O'Brien and Mrs. Rose "Mama G" Gilbert, who retired during 2012-2013 after 63 years of teaching. At age 94, Mrs. Gilbert was the oldest active teacher in the LAUSD. The '' Star Wars'' character of

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was based on her. The success of the book later inspired a short-lived television dramatic anthology series of the same title, which ran from December 1977 to July 1978 on

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.Michael Peck
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June 28, 2005. In 1989 '' 20/20'' aired an episode about the students of Palisades High School. Howard Rosenberg of the ''

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'' wrote that "Palisades High School is characterized here as both an institution of high academic performance and high drug and alcohol use. What ''20/20'' doesn't ask tonight is how both are possible at the same school." Circa 1992 there were so few students that LAUSD was considering closing the school. Pali High parents, principal Merle Price, and Pali High staff decided to advocate for making the school into a charter school.Hardy, Terry. "Top of the Class" (education section). '' Los Angeles Magazine''.

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In 1993 the school, along with three feeder elementary schools, received approval from the Los Angeles Board of Education to become a charter school. This was the first time a group of schools in California became charter schools. The school asked students to abide by a behavior code and instituted new academic programs. By 1998 student enrollment recovered: it had 200 students previously attending private schools. This school was the focus of a false email chain letter started around 2002. The message falsely claimed that a satiric message to parents about student truancies and homework problems was actually on the school's answering machine. The message was originally written in response to parent outrage that students who skipped class more than ten days per 90-schoolday semester (not counting legitimate absences, like sickness) could receive a failing grade in that class. This was reported on several web sites, including

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, and BreakTheChain.org.

Campus

The campus is bounded by Temescal Canyon Road to the east,

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to the north, El Medio Street to the west, and Temescal Academy (formerly known as first Temescal Canyon Continuation School and later Temescal High School) to the south. It is bisected by Bowdoin Street, which runs between the school's football field and the academic center of the school. Located only a mile from

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, the football stadium is called "Stadium by the Sea." Many movies have been filmed at Palisades. One of the first major motion pictures to be shot at Pali High was '' Carrie''. Directors George Lucas and

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held a joint audition for ''Carrie'' and Lucas's '' Star Wars'' (1977) on the Palisades campus. Other movies filmed on site include '' The Swinging Cheerleaders'' (1974), ''

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'' (1999), '' Crazy/Beautiful'' (2001), '' The Glass House'' (2001), '' Old School'' (2003), ''

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'' (2021) were also filmed at the school. Pali High was also used for the

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book, ''Party Weekend''. On April 25, 2021, the music video for

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" was filmed at Palisades, directed by

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. The song later debuted at #1 on the

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. As of 2010, approximately 43% of the student body, 1,180 out of 2,742 students, were bused to Palisades Charter High School from more than 100 Los Angeles zip codes. In 1994, approximately 70% of the student body, 1,176 out of 1,680 students, were bused from South-Central and East Los Angeles.

Demographics

According to '' U.S. News & World Report'', 49% of Palisades Charter's student body is "of color," with 32% of the student body coming from an economically disadvantaged household, determined by student eligibility for California's

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program.

Curriculum

most of its classes are university preparatory in nature, and it hosts a mathematics, science, and technology magnet program. The school also has humanities and marine biology courses. The school includes a New Media Academy that was, as of 1998, one of three in LAUSD. Pali High uses its charter school status to increase the visibility of this program. By that year DreamWorks had financed it with $100,000. The location fees generated by Aaron Spelling use of the school for ''

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. As of 2002 Palisades High School offers a surfing class that can be taken for physical education credit. It was established around 1998 by Ray Millette, a marine biology teacher and surfer. Palisades Charter High School is known for having a great music program. Its marching band has medaled 3 years in a row at the SCSBOA championships: in 2013 getting silver, in 2014 winning the gold for 3A and in 2015 getting bronze. The school also has a winter Drumline that competes in both SCPA and WGI and is also the 2016 SCPA "A class" silver medalist.

Discrimination and lawsuits

In 2016, extensive hate graffiti was found at the campus including references to the Ku Klux Klan, Jews, African-Americans, and LGBTQ people. In June 2017, Palisades Charter High School gained national media attention after an African-American student was depicted in a student blog with a noose drawn around her neck. In December 2021, following a false school shooting threat targeting Pali as well as other schools in the area, extensive graffiti was discovered on the campus. Among other things, messages proclaiming "Black Lives Matter" and "Kill the Dean" were spray-painted, along an

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and symbols of other extremist political movements.

Notable alumni

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* Kent Steffes – Olympic gold medalist, beach volleyball (1996), professional beach volleyball player * Randy Stoklos '78 - professional beach volleyball player * Ted Stryker '89 – KROQ-FM DJ * Syd – DJ producer and singerOdd Future's Sud tha Kyd talks music identity and the Internet
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'79 – actress (maiden name: Hallie Eckstein) *

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'69 – trial lawyer, co-founder of Trope and Decarolis; previous sports agent * Kiki Vandeweghe '76 – UCLA and NBA forward, general manager of Denver Nuggetshttp://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/13/local/me-teacher13 (Page 2), ''Los Angeles Times'', retrieved April 16, 2009 *

'65 – author and essayist *

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'82 – visual effects supervisor *

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'79 – Academy Award-winning actor * will.i.am (William James Adams Jr.) ‘93 – musician, member of

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'66 – mathematician at

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* J. D. Daniels – '' The Mighty Ducks'' & '' Going Places'' former child actor

Sending schools

As some LAUSD zoned high schools do not have enough space to educate all residents in their attendance boundaries, some schools send excess students to Palisades. They were, as of spring 2007: * Belmont * Crenshaw * Dorsey * Fairfax * Fremont * Hamilton * Hollywood * Jefferson *

* Manual Arts * Santee Education Complex * Van Nuys * Washington Preparatory

References

Additional references

SportsLine.com on Geoff McArthur
Retrieved August 6, 2005.

Retrieved August 6, 2005.

Retrieved August 6, 2005.

External links

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Mrs. Gilbert's still working at Pali--"Go Mama G!"
from the ''Palisades Post''

Official Palisades Charter Lacrosse Team website {{authority control High schools in Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified School District schools Charter high schools in California Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles) Educational institutions established in 1961 1961 establishments in California