Palisades Charter High School
Residents in Topanga, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, may attend Palisades or William Howard Taft Charter High School.This property was subsequently rented to actress Debbie Reynolds and her husband, singer Eddie Fisher.[8] The book featured interviews with several members of the class, whose experiences were recounted both individually and in groupings around shared themes such as the Vietnam War and the draft, drug experimentation, and sex.[12] The success of the book later inspired a short-lived television dramatic anthology series of the same title, which ran from December 1977 to July 1978 on NBC.[18] During the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, the Palisades Fire damaged a portion of the school, forcing it to temporarily close.Much of the school's main buildings, including the gym, aquatic center, and baseball field stayed intact.[19][20] In a subsequent press release, Principal Pamela Magee stated the school would be searching for a temporary campus to hold instruction until it is deemed safe to return."[23] On April 25, 2021, the music video for Olivia Rodrigo's song "Good 4 U" was filmed at Palisades, directed by Petra Collins.The location fees generated by Aaron Spelling's use of the school for Malibu Shores were used to, by 1998, install a new computer lab.In 2016, extensive hate graffiti was found at the campus including references to the Ku Klux Klan, Jews, African-Americans, and LGBTQ people.