Pleasant Valley High School (California)

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Pleasant Valley High School
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Pleasant Valley High School (California)
1475 East Avenue

Chico
,
Butte County
,
California
95926

United States
Coordinates 39°45′39″N121°49′0″W / 39.76083°N 121.81667°W / 39.76083; -121.81667
Information
Other names
  • Pleasant Valley
  • PVHS
  • PV
Type Public high school
Established1965 (1965) [1]
StatusActive
LocaleCity: Midsize (12)
School board California State Board of Education
School district Chico Unified School District
NCES District ID 0608370 [2]
SuperintendentKelly Staley [3]
SessionAugust–June
CEEB code 050548
NCES School ID 060837000827 [4]
PrincipalDamon Whittaker
Teaching staff80.80 (on an FTE basis) [2]
Grades9–12 [2]
Gender Mixed-sex
Enrollment1,775 [2]  (2021–2022)
 •  Grade 9 515
 •  Grade 10 422
 •  Grade 11 419
 •  Grade 12 419
Student to teacher ratio21.97:1 [2]
Schedule type Alternate day block scheduling
Campus typeSuburban
Student governmentYes
Color(s)Navy blue, Columbia blue, and white    
AthleticsYes
Athletics conference National Conference
SportsBoys' tennis, girls' tennis, football, swimming, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, field hockey, softball, boys' soccer, girls' soccer, wrestling, cross country, golf, boys' volleyball, girls' volleyball, skiing, snowboarding, baseball, track, marching band, and cheerleading.
MascotA Viking
Nickname Vikings
Rival Chico High School [5]
Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges
National ranking3,899 [6]
Newspaper The Saga
YearbookValkyrie
Feeder schools
  • Bidwell Junior High School
  • Marsh Junior High School
Feeder to Butte College
Website pvhs.chicousd.org

Pleasant Valley High School (commonly referred to as Pleasant Valley) is a public co-educational and comprehensive high school located in Chico, California teaching ninth grade through twelfth grade. It is the second largest school in the Chico Unified School District, which serves around 13,909 students. [7]

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Academics

Advanced Placement

Pleasant Valley High School's available AP classes are AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Seminar, AP World History, AP US History, AP Government, AP Macroeconomics, AP Psychology, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Spanish, online AP French, AP 2-D Art and Design, AP Drawing, and AP Computer Science Principles. [8] Pleasant Valley offers the AP Capstone program and its respective diplomas and academic certificates. [9]

International Baccalaureate Programme

Pleasant Valley used to offer the IB Diploma Programme; [10] it provided the IB exams for English, Chemistry, Biology, History, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mathematics, and Theater Arts.

Notable alumni

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