Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa)
Coordinates: 41°33′13″N 90°28′14″W / 41.5535°N 90.4706°W / 41.5535; -90.4706
| Pleasant Valley High School | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1961 |
| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Mike Zimmer |
| Athletics | Randy Teymer |
| Faculty | 70 |
| Students | 1,177 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Location | 604 Belmont Road,, Riverdale, Iowa, USA |
| District | Pleasant Valley |
| Colors | Navy Blue and Grey |
| Athletics | Mississippi Athletic Conference |
| Mascot | Spartan |
| Yearbook | Valenian |
| Newspaper | Spartan Shield |
| Website | pleasval.k12.ia.us/highschool |
Pleasant Valley High School is a four-year comprehensive high school located in Bettendorf, Iowa. The school is part of the Pleasant Valley Community School District, and it has an enrollment of approximately 1,177 students in grades 9 through 12.
Located approximately one mile west of U.S. Highway 67, Pleasant Valley High School draws students from several communities in eastern Iowa Scott County, Iowa, including the northeast sections of Bettendorf, plus Riverdale, LeClaire and surrounding rural areas—including the unincorporated Pleasant Valley Township (for which the school district was named).
Read more about Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa): History
Famous quotes containing the words pleasant, valley, high and/or school:
“Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green & pleasant Land.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
““Over the mountains
Of the moon,
Down the valley of the shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied,—
“If you seek for Eldorado!””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Ephesians, 6:12.
St. Paul’s words were used by William Blake as an epigraph to The Four Zoas (c. 1800)
“At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)