Website: https://phs.piedmont.k12.ca.us/
Location: 800 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA 94611
Phone: (510) 594-2626
Instagram: @piedmonthigh
Parent Newsletter: Archives
2024-25 School Profile | Bell Schedule (Regular)
Road to Graduation | Yearbook Info
Principal: Dr. Yoshihara
Assistant Principal: Mr. Marik
At the school board meeting on September 25, 2024, the Piedmont Education Foundation (PEF) proudly presented a giant check for $4,039,957 to the Piedmont Unified School District (PUSD). This record-breaking grant represents a year of dedicated fundraising and highlights the incredible support from our community.
Funds were raised through the Giving Campaign, Spring Fling, Harvest Festival, Dress Best for Less, business sponsorships, and a bequest from former teacher Pamela Wells Rafanelli. The grant will fund classroom technology, phonics curriculum books, and playground initiatives.
94% of the funds will support the salaries of essential educators, while 6% is designated for curriculum development, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives, professional development, and classroom supplies.
PEF thanks all donors, volunteers, and supporters and encourages everyone to participate in this year’s Giving Campaign at PiedmontEdFoundation.org/donate.
We strive to ensure your child's online safety while providing educational content. PUSD provides web filtering and monitoring on school-provided chromebooks that works at home and at school.
This year we have switched to Blocksi to filter content. With Blocksi parents can:
- Monitor your child’s activity on their district-issued device
- Pause the internet
- Set bedtime limits
- Create time controls at home for Youtube and block other additional websites
Set-up your account - register with the email you have on file with the district here: https://parent.blocksi.net/register_account
Get the mobile App - prefer to access via a mobile device? Click here for iOS and here for Google Play
Get the Parent Guide - detailed parent guide here
Need additional help? Contact Adam Saville, Secondary Technology Coordinator: asaville@piedmont.k12.ca.us
The PHS website is updated regularly to both serve our current community as well as our prospective one.
PHS website highlights:
1. This weekly Parents Newsletter is posted on the home page news section.
2. Highlights from life at PHS are also posted on the homepage news section.
3. The Fall Master Schedule page is now current.
4. Our Course Catalog is available as a single document as well as an interactive, searchable one.
5. Each department page also lists its courses and showcases images of what goes on in the classroom. Check out the Science Dept page.
6. Teacher emails are listed under their names in each department's page.
7. College and Career Center has a detailed College Prep Checklist.
8. Highlander Robotics, History of PHS and DEIB pages have been recently added or updated.
You can now also add the Athletics Calendar (all sports) to your Google Calendar. A link to the instructions is at the top of the Athletics Calendar web page.
Hello Families - Just a reminder of the support we offer for students as we start to review the first progress report.
Teachers: We encourage students to work on self advocacy skills and talk to their teacher if they do not understand something from class, need clarification, get ready for an upcoming test, or want to review missing work.
Counselors: We are happy to talk to students about any challenges they are having in or out of the classroom.
Academy: Each student has an academy teacher. Its noted in their schedule. But, they can use Flexisched to request to see other teachers during the Wednesday and Friday academy time.
Peer Tutoring: During Academy time, students have the choice to be with a peer tutor vs going to see a teacher. Students select “Peer Tutoring” for Academy and are then paired, under the guidance of a teacher, with a peer who can help them in a specific subject area.
The Piedmont Parents Network (PPN) is excited to present the first event in our speaker series on Wednesday, October 23 from 7:00-8:30 pm at the Havens Library. All parents/caregivers of middle school students are invited to attend.
Mindy Szelap will share insights and knowledge about how parents can shift their behaviors to encourage resilience and independence in kids as a means to reduce anxiety. Question and Answer session to follow the talk. Mindy Szelap (https://www.bayareaspacetreatment.com/) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years of experience working with children, teens, and families in pediatrics.
Ms. Szelap specializes in the treatment of anxiety, OCD, depression, and pediatric chronic illness and pain, utilizing evidence based treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure/response prevention, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), strategic therapy, internal family systems (IFS), and clinical hypnosis. She works extensively with families of young children to interrupt anxious patterns before they take hold. Her background is strongly rooted in pediatrics, child and adolescent development, and behavioral therapies.
This event is free for our Piedmont parent community, and is an adults only event. Please register here: https://calendar.app.google/APHRyGQb2SM4DrVY6
There is a lot to say about how and why Oliver Greenbaum is simply a joy to have in any Social Studies class. For one, he is invariably thoughtful and kind. But also, he loves learning, simply for the sake of learning. Rather than being laser-focused on grades like so many of his peers, he is intrinsically curious and truly engaged. He is a deep analytical thinker that asks high level questions and always furthers the conversation. He is willing to "take space" in any conversation, but "makes space" first - always first looking to see if others want to contribute to the conversation before raising his own hand, and then listening to the comments of his peers before building on them. Yet, in addition to all of these things, we most love that Oliver is authentically himself, and clearly chooses to pave his own way. For example, how great is it that he is a fencing, quirky-mismatched-sock-wearing vegan?!? And perhaps most of all, we appreciate his willingness to jump into any activity unselfconsciously, always with unfettered optimism, a quick smile, and a contagious laugh.
- So far this year, what has been your most memorable experience? My most memorable experience so far this year is meeting Filippo Macchi, the Olympic Silver medalist in men's individual foil in the 2024 summer Olympics.
- If you were to describe PHS to someone who is thinking about coming, what would you say to them? If I were to describe PHS to someone who is thinking about coming, I would say that PHS is a very welcoming, accepting, fun, place with lots of different kinds of people and activities.
- If you were in charge at PHS, what is one action you might take to make it better? If I was in charge at phs I would have more events like dances.
- If you could share one sentence with your parents/guardians, what would you say? If I could share one sentence with my parents it would be " Thank you and I love you"
- What is your favorite word? My favorite word is "fantastic" or "gregarious"
- What is your favorite song? My favorite song is Party Town by Marcia Ball
- What is your favorite food? My favorite food is Lasagna
- Can you share a photo of something from your summer and why it is special to you? This a picture of me and Filippo Macchi at the fencing camp I did in Italy during the summer.
Piedmont High School has earned a place on the AP School Honor Roll for 2023-24. The AP School Honor Roll recognizes schools that have done outstanding work to welcome more students into AP courses and support them on the path to college success.
We know it takes a significant amount of effort from both students, parents, and staff to make AP access a priority. We thank all three groups by celebrating this achievement for our school community. In November, a list of schools that are recognized on the 2024 AP School Honor Roll will be posted to AP Central.
We are planning to offer a school-based SAT testing date on Monday, March 17th 2025. If your student is interested in taking the SAT at PHS, please complete the form here [link added late]. This information will help us with planning purposes. If you have more than one student who hopes to take the test, please complete the form one time for each student.
Please note, this is not an official order form and is meant solely for collecting an estimate of the number of interested students. More information to come on ordering in January. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Marik.
If your student is planning to take an AP exam this spring, please follow the two step ordering process below. The deadline for ordering exams is Friday, November 8th. Exams cost $130 which covers instructional materials, testing materials, proctors, and other costs. Orders placed after November 8th will incur a CollegeBoard imposed $40 late fee.
Step 1 - Log-in to the Infinite Campus School Store and place an order for all exams your student plans to take.
Step 2 - Your student should log-in to their College Board account and indicate which exams should be ordered. Instructions on how to do this can be found here. If you do not complete this step for each exam, an exam will not be ordered! All students should have access to their teacher's AP course page. If students have questions about this, they should contact their teacher.
If you have questions on payment or ordering, please contact our registrar Darlene Low (dlow@piedmont.k12.ca.us)
Interested in taking an exam for a course we don't offer? - Please fill out the survey here. We may offer additional exams if enough students sign-up.
