Pomona Unified School District or PUSD serves approximately 30,000 Pre-K-12 students and 17,000 adult learners at 44 schools in Pomona and Diamond Bar, California . It is located 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles , and is the fourth-largest school district in Los Angeles County .
7-504: In 1995 the school district bought the former Indian Hill Mall , a failing shopping center built in the 1960s, and redeveloped it into an educational, commercial and retail complex called The Village at Indian Hill. In November 2008, 75% of voters approved Measure PS, a $ 235 million school bond measure, to provide for the renovation of schools. The first of the Measure PS projects were completed in summer 2009. Another round of projects
14-571: A $ 25 million renovation which changed Indian Hill to an air-conditioned enclosed mall aimed at the blue-collar market with four department store anchors (Zody's, Sears, Roberts, and another to be determined) and about 80 other tenants. The renovation was completed in September 1982 and was described as "the largest single commercial development in the city's history". In 1985, Sears moved to the Montclair Plaza Mall. In 1995, part of
21-459: A former Pomona High School student who claimed the school district and high school covered up how one their track coaches raped her in 1997. This accuser was one of nine female accusers who alleged they were sexually assaulted by male coaches who served at the high school. Indian Hill Mall Indian Hill Village is a former shopping mall in Pomona, California . It has been redeveloped into
28-518: A multi-use retail, commercial, and educational facility and is now known as The Village @ Indian Hill , comprising 650,000 square feet (60,000 m ) on 39 acres (16 ha). The original, open-air mall was built in the mid-1950s as Pomona Valley Center . Its anchor store, a 111,500-square-foot (10,360 m ) Sears , had been dedicated in November 1954. Inline stores included Long's Drugs , F.C. Nash , and J.J. Newberry . Between 1967 and 1969,
35-715: The mall was expanded westward. A 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) Zody's discount store opened in June 1969 as the center's second anchor. One year later, the F.C. Nash store was sold to Roberts Department Store . In 1974, the mall was renamed Indian Hill Village, a name the mall owners chose in a contest. In 1979, there were 19 stores and a total taxable sales of $ 32 million, ranking 39th out of 52 regional shopping centers in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. That year, Pomona's redevelopment agency as redevelopers National Redevelopment and American Income Properties announced
42-624: The property was acquired by the Pomona Unified School District , which created the nonprofit Pomona Valley Educational Foundation to manage it; the foundation was dissolved in 2010. The conversion of the failing mall into an "impressive" educational facility has been cited as one of the chief accomplishments of then-school superintendent Patrick Leier. The expanded property now houses multiple educational facilities which serve more than 2,000 students in grades pre-Kindergarten to 14. An eight-screen movie theater formerly in
49-448: Was set for summer 2010, at 21 schools. Board of Education members are elected to a four-year term. The elections are held on a first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years effective with the 2018 election. All sections in the city are zoned to an elementary, middle, and high school. On January 23, 2024, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered for Pomona Unified School District to pay $ 35 million in damages to
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