If you have moved back to Pacific Palisades, please help line Temescal Canyon Road as Palisades High School return to the campus on Tuesday, January 27. School starts at 8:30 a.m. and people are asked to come earlier to welcome them back. Signs are welcomed.
The high school is one of the largest employers and “businesses” in Pacific Palisades and the return is a significant move to a return to reclaim the community after the deadly January 2025 Palisades Fire. For about the past year, students attended school at the former Sears Building in Santa Monica, which had been modified. There were no facilities, such as gyms, courts or fields.
Independent Review Deems PaliHi Safe
An L.A. Health Fire Study consortium of prominent professors and researchers from UCLA and Harvard was given correspondence from community members, the summary of post-fire cleanup and remediation activities, and the detailed environmental reports and data available on the LAUSD Office of Environmental Health & Safety website.
They were asked “If it were us, and our children went to Palisades Charter High School or our family members worked there, would we feel okay sending them back?
The answer was yes.
Given that experts have deemed a return to campus is safe, students will return on January 27.
Principal Pam Magee wrote in a letter to families, “I look forward to welcoming back our students, faculty, and staff to our beloved campus this week. Here’s to a happy, healthy, and joyous remainder of the school year!”