Palisades Charter High School reopened Tuesday, a little more than a year after it was damaged in the deadly Palisades Fire.
The school, known affectionately as Pali High, stood at 15777 Bowdoin St., serving the Pacific Palisades area as well as parts of Brentwood, since 1961.
Classes at the grade 9-12 school — whose famous graduates include J.J. Abrams (class of ’84), Forest Whitaker (’79) and Jeanie Buss (’79) — were moved to the former Sears building in Santa Monica after the Jan. 7, 2025, fire.
Well-wishers, including a graduate who said he and his mother submitted the name Dolphins as the school’s eventual mascot, were on hand to greet students Tuesday.
Palisades Charter High School was used as the location for the 2021 Olivia Rodrigo music video for her No. 1 hit “Good 4 U.”