Shadow Hills High School

Shadow Hills High School is a public high school for grades 9 - 12. It is located in north Indio, California, USA.Other high schools in the area are Indio High School, La Quinta High School and Palm Desert High School. The main feeder school are Indio Middle School and Desert Ridge Academy which replaced the former Woodrow Wilson Middle School in 2009.HistoryShadow Hills High School opened on August 31, 2009, with about 600 freshman and sophomore students. The high school is the fourth in the Desert Sands Unified School District.Shadow Hills has 84 classrooms, a 400-seat performing arts theater, an 80-seat lecture hall and a three-court gymnasium.In July 2012, Marcus Wood, the former principal of John Glenn Middle School in Desert Sands Unified, succeeded the recently retired Doug Bluth as the school's second principal.One year after earning his Ed.D., Dr. Wood was promoted to Senior Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment at the district office. Former SHHS Assistant Principal Gabriel P. Fajardo was hired before the 2017/2018 school year to fill the vacant principal position.Shadow Hills High School athletics compete in the De Anza League and some teams with the Desert Valley League.