Palmdale School District

The Palmdale School District was formed in 1888.

Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. The district consists of 29 schools:

The Palmdale School District serves only kindergarten through the 8th grade. All high school-level education (9th - 12th grades) in the metropolitan area is provided by the Antelope Valley Union High School District. The Current PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT is RAUL MALDONADO

All PSD schools are located within Palmdale.

School Board President DENNIS TRUJILLO

Trustee Dennis Trujillo was born in Southern California and moved with his wife and children to the Antelope Valley in 1986.

Mr. Trujillo has roots in the Palmdale School District; all of his children were students of the Palmdale School District, and his wife Cindy is a teacher at Dos Caminos Dual Immersion School. Mr. Trujillo has worked as an electrician for the Palmdale Water District for the last 13 years, before that, he worked for a contractor at Edwards Air Force Base, for 14 years. Mr. Trujillo has a background in Business and Finance.

School Board Clerk

NANCY SMITH

Trustee Nancy Smith was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska and moved to Palmdale in 1983, with her husband and three children.

Mrs. Smith received her Bachelor of Arts in Education and a teaching credential from Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska in 1969. She taught in Nebraska, Kansas, and California in junior high, high school, adult school, Antelope Valley College (adjunct) and California State Bakersfield.

School Board Member

SHARON VEGA Trustee Sharon Vega came to the Palmdale School District from corporate America and became a substitute teacher. A year later, she had her teaching credential and started teaching at Chaparral Elementary School. While at Chaparral, she taught every grade, except 2nd, and 6th, and spent a couple of years as an Arts CRT

RALPH VELADOR Trustee Ralph Velador is a Southern California native, having moved to Palmdale in 2001. Ralph is a proud Army Veteran, who serves the American Legion Post 348, as Second Vice-Commander. Ralph also served as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Palmdale for 4 1/2 years, where he served as Chair for 3 terms.

SIMONE ZULU-DIOL Simone Niongbo Koivogui Zulu Diol is a recently retired preschool teacher via the Palmdale School District, a parent, and grandparent, and the former president of the Palmdale Elementary Teachers Association. She was one of the original Head Start teachers in Palmdale, and thus, she is a leading proponent of holistic, multi-cultural educational that involves the child and the parent or designated caregiver in the educational process. Simone has served as a mentor teacher, multi-linguists advocate (she is bi-lingual) and as a model of excellence based on her administrative skills as a Head Start site director/headteacher, while at Highland High School in Palmdale, California.

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