Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

When Felix Wu learned he had been selected as a United States Presidential Scholar, the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School senior decided not to call his friend Lynn Itagaki, who had also applied for the award. "There was an anxiety about whether she had gotten it or not also," said Wu, who scored a perfect 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test last year. "I didn't want to be the one to call her if she hadn't gotten it." As it turned out, his worries were unfounded.

More than 1,000 exhibits probed the secrets of computers, ecology, the social sciences and other topics Thursday, the work of some of the best and brightest students who entered the 53rd annual Los Angeles County Science Fair. The students, from 160 private and public schools, competed for scholarships, medals and cash. By day's end, 120 had been chosen to advance to the statewide science fair later this month.

After much debate, Kelly Johnson has decided to remain at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates as the principal instead of transferring to Redondo Union High School, where he was planning to take over the top job. Johnson, who said he had had some philosophical differences with Palos Verdes Peninsula Supt. Ann Chlebicki when he announced his resignation in February, has now signed a contract that extends his job through 2000.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School captured first place in the Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon, according to results announced Friday. Peninsula High, which has won the county competition three times before, will join top teams from the Los Angeles Unified School District and throughout California at the state finals March 7-8 in Modesto. Peninsula won the county tournament with a score of 43,081 out of a possible 60,000.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School has been named a distinguished school by the State Education Department. It also received the honor in 1992. Since 1987, three of the district's eight elementary schools and both its intermediate schools have received the award, said interim Supt. Erwin N. Jones of the peninsula school district. In addition, Peninsula High is one of 64 high in the state to be accredited this year by the Western Assn. of Schools and Colleges, he said.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday cleared the way for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District to consolidate its three high school campuses into one by next fall. Judge John Zebrowski ruled that the district did comply with state law when it prepared an environmental impact report on school closures. District critics had sought to stop the consolidation plan on the grounds that the district had failed to properly study traffic, parking and other problems.

For some, a car is nothing more than a way to get from point A to point B. For others, a car is a work of art. This weekend, a pair of Palos Verdes Peninsula organizations will use the car as a fund-raiser. On display at the third annual Concours d'Elegance, sponsored by the Palos Verdes Art Center and the local Rotary Club, will be an exhibition of autos that range from a 1909 Ford, which owners say is the oldest restored Model T in the world, to vintage Thunderbirds.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. That's the name the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District school board approved Monday for the school established by the district's cost-cutting consolidation of Miraleste, Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills high schools. The newly christened school is expected to have about 2,950 students when it opens in the fall on the Rolling Hills High School campus. Supt.

They did it again, big time. For the fourth consecutive year, El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills--the defending national champions--clinched the academic decathlon title for the Los Angeles Unified School District, officials said Thursday. The nine-member team will advance to the state competition next month. The El Camino team was followed by Garfield High and Belmont High.

Palos Verdes school board members Monday will discuss what should be done with two intermediate schools when they are closed this summer. A residents' advisory group recommended Tuesday that the Malaga Cove Intermediate School campus in Palos Verdes Estates either be leased or sold to a private school when it is closed.

Boys in front with their arms folded across their waists, girls in back with scarves covering their hair. This arrangement fell into place as naturally as if the classroom where they had gathered were a mosque. Fourteen Muslim students were ready to begin their midday prayers. Surrounded by desks, books, maps and slide projectors, the group paid no attention to the classroom chaos, nor to the racket outside the door.

Editor's note: Due to a production error, parts of this story published Saturday were deleted. The story is being rerun today in its entirety. * El Camino Real High School's Academic Decathlon team took home the Woodland Hills school's sixth consecutive Academic Decathlon title Friday evening from the downtown L.A. hotel where the awards were announced.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School took first place in the 2001 Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon on Friday, and will join 13 other schools in various categories across the county that will compete in the state Academic Decathlon next month. The Peninsula team members discovered during the awards ceremony at the Quiet Canyon Country Club in Montebello that they had outscored 51 other teams. "We all just screamed and hugged each other.

Six teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of making a video of themselves harassing and beating other youngsters at random in their affluent neighborhoods on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Although the alleged assaults occurred last summer, authorities discovered the video in November after the teenagers tried to sell copies to their friends at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School for $20 apiece, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies.

Fostering team spirit in a sport that is largely an individual endeavor is an ongoing challenge for high school tennis coaches, especially among those blessed with the most talented players. The Darwinian mentality and the time and specialized practice necessary for survival--let alone success--at the highest levels of junior tennis doesn't always lend itself to playing for a high school team.

They did it again, big time. For the fourth consecutive year, El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills--the defending national champions--clinched the academic decathlon title for the Los Angeles Unified School District, officials said Thursday. The nine-member team will advance to the state competition next month. The El Camino team was followed by Garfield High and Belmont High.

Palos Verdes Peninsula school officials said Wednesday that they have asked the Sheriff's Department to investigate whether two students who broke into a high school office to change grade records should be prosecuted. The students were among 14 who were suspended from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in the grade-tampering scheme.

David Toma will carry his anti-drug crusade to parents of Palos Verdes Peninsula high school students at 7 tonight on the Rolling Hills campus. School officials, anticipating a large turnout, said the speaker's message will be piped into tents set up to accommodate people who can't get into the school's gym. Tickets are $2.

After much debate, Kelly Johnson has decided to remain at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates as the principal instead of transferring to Redondo Union High School, where he was planning to take over the top job. Johnson, who said he had had some philosophical differences with Palos Verdes Peninsula Supt. Ann Chlebicki when he announced his resignation in February, has now signed a contract that extends his job through 2000.