Pasadena Unified School District
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351 South Hudson Avenue Southern California Pasadena, California, Los Angeles County, 91101-3507 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°8′23″N 118°8′4″W / 34.13972°N 118.13444°WCoordinates: 34°8′23″N 118°8′4″W / 34.13972°N 118.13444°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Grades | Pre-K through 12 |
| Established | 1874 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Brian McDonald |
| Asst. Superintendent(s) | Dr. Meg Abrahamson Dr. Cy Chukwumezie Julianne Reynoso Eric Sahakian Jerell Hill |
| Business administrator | Bernadette Griggs |
| Governing agency | City of Pasadena |
| Accreditation(s) | Western Association |
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| Budget | $225,574,000 (2012) |
| District ID | 0629940 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 19,102 (2014) |
| Teachers | 817.02 (2014) |
| Staff | 1,022.03 (2014) |
| Student-teacher ratio | 23.8 (2014) |
| Athletic conference | CIF Southern Section |
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| Areas served | Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre |
| Website | www |
The Pasadena Unified School District is a unified school district that is responsible for the schools of Pasadena, California. As of 2014[update], it has 4 high schools, 5 middle schools, 3 K-8 schools and 15 K-5 elementary schools. The number of elementary schools was reduced from 18 at the end of the 2010-11 school year. The district also serves the city of Sierra Madre and the unincorporated community of Altadena.
PUSD is run by a Board of Education, whose members serve four-year terms. Duties of the Board include budgeting, approving expenditures, establishing policy, making employment decisions, approving textbooks and courses of study, and approving academic initiatives. As of June 2012, PUSD's at large board districts became geographic subdistricts. As of July 1, 2015, the members of the Board of Education of PUSD are Elizabeth Pomeroy (District 5, President), Kimberly Kenne (District 1, Vice President), Roy Boulghourjian (District 2, Clerk), Adrienne Ann Mullen (District 3), Patrick Cahalan (District 4), Lawrence Torres (District 6), and Scott Phelps (District 7).
In its early history, Pasadena had some of the highest performing schools in the state, largely due to a strong affiliation with the California Institute of Technology. Two schools in the area, Noyes Elementary (now closed) and Hale Elementary (now Norma Coombs Alternative School) were named after Caltech professors..
In January 1970, as supplemented in March 1970, busing was ordered in the district after the federal court ordered desegregation of the public schools in Pasadena. This was a result of the city demographics of the time, which resulted in a "de facto" segregation, with a large proportion of the African American population attending schools in the northwest area of the city (which was largely African American), and the white students attending schools in the east and southern parts.
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