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 | |
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Location | |
74910 Aztec Road, Palm Desert, California 92260 | |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Established | 1986 |
Principal | Sarit Saig [1] |
Enrollment | 2,090 (2019-20)[2] |
Color(s) | |
Mascot | Aztec |
Rival | La Quinta High School |
Newspaper | The Spear |
Yearbook | Desert Reflections |
Website | pdhs |
Palm Desert offers numerous Advanced Placement and Honors courses, amongst CP classes.
Palm Desert's mascot is the Aztec. The school has tennis, cross country, soccer, track, golf, swimming, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, football, wrestling, water polo and equestrian teams. Their main rival in the Desert Empire League is the La Quinta High School Blackhawks.
Palm Desert High School was reconstructed as part of the District's $100 million bond used for PDHS, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Eisenhower schools. The new campus has been built to the north of the old campus using the former sports fields for land. The project was completely finished by the beginning of the 2011–12 school year. The new fields opened by the following year. A new gymnasium has been built to seat approximately 2000 students.
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