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 2010-2011 year the enrollment was 1,980. 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...
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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 2010-2011 year the enrollment was 1,980. 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).
Palm Desert offers an array of 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...
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