Palm Valley School

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Palm Valley School
Location
Palm Valley School
35525 Da Vall Drive
Rancho Mirage, California

United States
Coordinates 33°47′28″N116°26′30″W / 33.79111°N 116.44167°W / 33.79111; -116.44167
Information
Type Private
MottoParatus Vitae
(Prepared for Life)
Established1952
NCES School ID 00082006 [1]
Faculty60.0 (on FTE basis) [1]
Grades Preschool–12
Enrollment350 [1]  (2024-2025)
Student to teacher ratio10.3:1 [1]
MascotFirebird
Website www.pvs.org

Palm Valley School is a private college-preparatory, secular and co-educational school located in Rancho Mirage, California, United States. It was founded in 1952 in Palm Springs, CA. The school moved to Rancho Mirage in 1992. [2]

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The school serves all grades from Preschool through Grade 12 on 34 acres of campus in Rancho Mirage, CA. The campus features separate campuses and buildings for each division with a total enrollment of 270 students as of 2017. [3]

The average class size is under 20 with a student to teacher ratio of approx. 1:12. The College Counseling program graduates 100% of the senior class and 100% get accepted to college and university. The motto is "Paratus Vitae" ("Prepared for Life").

History

The Palm Valley School was founded in 1952 on a property four miles outside the city of Palm Springs by Mr. and Mrs. J. Blake Field, with students coming from across the Coachella Valley. In 1992, the school moved to a new 34-acre campus in the heart of Rancho Mirage, near the center of the valley, within reach of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and La Quinta. The curriculum was college-preparatory, non-denominational and co-educational, and taught children from three to eighteen. All of the school's graduates were qualified to go on to four-year colleges. [2]

Marywood Country Day School (1979–2005) was founded in 1979 by Dr. Mary O’Neill in La Quinta. Grades were added each year, and by 1983 it was an independent, co-educational, non-sectarian school going up to Grade 5, with 35 children, and Dr. O’Neill incorporated it as a non-profit charitable organization. By 1985, it had outgrown its two-acre campus, and in the summer of 1986 moved to 19 acres at Clancy Lane, Rancho Mirage, soon adding early childhood and middle school programs, taking it to a preschool through eighth-grade independent school. In 2005, Marywood Country Day School merged with Palm Valley and the result was a new Marywood-Palm Valley School on the Palm Valley School campus. The Phoenix or Firebird was chosen as the new school's symbol, referring to a rebirth. [2]

In July 2013, the Board of Trustees changed the school’s name from Marywood-Palm Valley to the Palm Valley School, but to honor the Marywood name the Lower School became the Marywood Lower School. In 2014, a new Upper School campus was opened. [2]

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Marywood-palm Valley School". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved September 3, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Our History", pvs.org, accessed 26 May 2025
  3. ↑ "Private school expelled students after parents' criticism, then charged them for the rest of the year". Desert Sun. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Filmographie Alia Shawkat" (in French). Cinenews.be. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Weisbard, Eric (2007). Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Duke University Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN   978-0822390558.
  6. ↑ "Paris Hilton Biography". Biography.com. Retrieved September 3, 2013.


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