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COUNSELORS Julie Hoshizaki Ann Jacobson Maura McDonald Linda Spencer Barbara Yeager (949) 936 - 7634 (949) 936 - 7753 (949) 936 - 7623 (949) 936 - 7613 (949) 936 - 7614 jhoshiza@iusd.org apjacobs@iusd.org mmcdonal@iusd.org lspencer@iusd.org byeager@iusd.org The High School University High School is a comprehensive high school in Orange County, California, with an enrollment of 2,514 students. The school’s 55 - acre campus is in close proximity to several institutions of higher learning, including the University of California, Irvine, Concordia University and Chapman University. In with an enrollment of 93 students who fully participate in the school’s academic, athletic and activities programs. Ninety - seven percent of University High School graduates enter post - secondary educational programs. University High School students have consistently been successful in national and state academic awards programs such as the National Merit Scholarship Program, the Siemens Foundation Awards Program and the Robert C. Byrd Scholar - ship Program. University High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The school was recognized by the Department of Education as an exemplary school in the Secondary School Recognition Program in 1987. In 1988 and 1992, the school was recognized as a California Distinguished School. The school’s mission is to enable each student to become a contributing member of society with an ap- meet the challenges of a changing world by providing the highest quality educational experience we can envision. Students University High School supports a diverse student body. Among the 2,514 students enrolled in Septem- ber, 2010, there are students from sixty - five countries who speak over fifty - five different languages. Student Enrollment by Grade Level: Grade 9 627 Grade 10 677 Grade 11 Grade 12 588 Total 2514 Student Enrollment by Ethnicity: Group % of total enrolled African American/Black 2.4 % American Indian or Alaska Native .06% Asian ( Asian Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) 45.2 % Caucasian 34.7 % Filipino 2.5 % Hispanic 8.9 % Other 6.2 % 100 % ADMINISTRATION John Pehrson, Principal Melinda Fowler, Assistant Principal Patricia Janda, Assistant Principal Matt Pate, Assistant Principal University High School 4771 Campus Drive, Irvine, California 92612 Phone (949) 936 - 7600 FAX (949) 936 - 7609 http://www.iusd.org/uhs/ CEEB Code: 051984 School Profile 2010 - 2011 Class Rank: By school policy, students are not ranked. Grade Point Average Computation: A = 4 points B = 3 points C = 2 points D = 1 point F = 0 points In determining Grade Point Average, one point per semester is added for each course taken from Advanced Placement and specific Honors level courses as noted on the transcript. Transcript Data: Academic GPA: This represents marks earned during grades 9 - 12. Excluded are non - college preparatory courses, physical education, athletics, and courses earning a grade of “Pass” or “Credit”. Total GPA: This represents marks earned during grades 9 - 12. Excluded are courses earning a mark of “Pass” or “Credit”. Courses taken at the middle school that are not on the University High School transcript include Algebra 1 or a higher level mathematics course and Level 1 Foreign Language courses. Credits are not issued for Community Service. Students who complete 25 hours or more of voluntary community service during the school year are eligible to receive a notation on the transcript. University High School: Academic Achievement Data Advanced Placement exams 2010: 835 students participated in the AP test program and took SAT Reasoning Test 2010 Number of Students Tested Critical Reading Mathematics Writing Total 450 611 668 623 1902 Advanced Placement Pass Rate 2010 Subject # tests Pass Rate Subject # tests Pass Rate Art Drawing 15 93% Eng Lit/Comp 146 97% Art 2D 7 100% European Hist 67 96% Art History 85 98% French 4 100% Biology 146 98% Govt & Poli 150 79% Calculus AB 121 93% Latin 10 80% Calculus BC 91 100% Music Theory 21 86% Chemistry 103 96% Physics B 92 96% Comp Sci A 20 100% Physics other 24 100% Chinese 29 100% Psychology 142 82% Econ - Macro 150 73% Spanish 54 94% Econ - Micro 14 100% Statistics 103 89% Eng Lang/ Comp 123 99% US History 175 97% Data excludes Environmental Science, Comparative Government/ Politics, World History and Japanese tests taken by UHS students ACT High School Profile 2010 Number of Students Tested English Math Reading Science Composite 182 27.8 29.4 27.2 27 27.9 ACT results correspond to students taking four or more years of English and three or more years of math, social studies and natural science National Merit Scholarship Program 2010 National Merit Competition National Hispanic Recognition Program Commended Semi - Finalist Finalist Scholar 60 57 54 3 CA High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) CAHSEE Pass Rate for class of 2010 Grade 10 Math English 99% 98% SAT Subject Test 2010 Subject Test # Students tested Mean Literature 189 632 US History 235 666 Math 2C 316 708 Biology - E 55 726 Biology - M 78 723 Chemistry 136 686 Physics 45 725 Chinese w/List. 42 780 Korean w/List. 43 770 Spanish 8 618 University High School: Curriculum All students are expected to demonstrate honesty and integrity while in attendance at University High School and each stu- dent signs an Academic Honesty Contract. Students are expected to do their own work. This includes test taking, homework, class assignments and the creation of original essays, compositions, term papers and scientific research. Academic Honesty and Integrity: University High School offers a rigorous academic curriculum. The majority of classes are offered at the College Preparatory level. Honors and Advanced Placement courses can be taken when students meet specific grade requirements and have a teacher’s recommendation . There are six class periods during the regular school day. Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Pageantry, Color Guard, Treble Ensemble/Chorale, Madrigals, Tech Theatre and Advanced Theatre Productions are offered as seventh period classes. The Irvine Unified School District’s minimum credit requirements for high school graduatio n are listed below. In addition, students must pass both the English Language Arts and Mathematics portions of the California High School Exit Exam. English* 40 Science 20 World Language or Visual/Performing Arts 10 Physical Education 20 Mathematics (Algebra 1 or higher) 20 Social Science 30 Health 2.5 Additional courses & electives Total 72.5 215 *English credit does not include ELD 1 and only 10 credits of ELD 2 will count towards English for graduation English English 1 English 1 Honors English 2 English 2 Honors English 3 * AP English Language English 4 * AP English Lit and Composition Contemporary Literature College Prep Composition Science Coordinated Science 1 Coordinated Science 1 Honors Coordinated Science 2 Coordinated Science 2 Honors Marine Science Anatomy and Physiology * AP Biology Chemistry * Honors Chemistry * AP Chemistry Physics * AP Physics B Mathematics Algebra 1 A/B Algebra 1C/D Algebra 1 Geometry Geometry Honors Intermediate Algebra 2 Algebra 2 Algebra 2 Honors Functions, Statistics & Trig. Pre - Calculus * Honors Pre - Calculus Statistics * AP Statistics * AP Calculus AB * AP Calculus BC * AP Computer Science Computer Programming Basics Social Science Global Perspectives Global Perspectives Honors United States History * AP United States History Political Science * AP Political Science Economics * AP Economics European History (Not offered in 2010 - 2011) * AP European History (Not offered in 2010 - 2011) World History (As of 2010) *AP World History (As of 2010) Psychology *AP Psychology The American Experience Survey of World Religions Speech and Debate World Languages Chinese 1 Chinese 2 Chinese 3 * Chinese 4 * AP Chinese French 1 French 2 French 3 * French 4 * AP French Latin 1 Latin 2 Latin 3 * Latin 4 * AP Latin Spanish 1 Spanish 2 Spanish 3 * Spanish 4 * AP Spanish American Sign Language I American Sign Language II Visual Arts Multi - Cultural Art Art Fundamentals Painting and Drawing Adv. Painting and Drawing * AP Studio Art * AP Art History * AP 2D Design Beg. Ceramics Adv. Ceramics Photography I Adv. Photo Visual Imagery I Visual Imagery 2 Video Production Adv. Video Production Performing Arts (Dance/Vocal Music / Drama) Dance Technique I Dance Technique II UHS Dance Productions Treble Ensemble/Chorale Madrigal Singers Drama I Drama 2 Adv. Theatre Production Tech Theater College Course Offerings by subject area: We offer 13 year long Honors courses and 22 Advance Placement courses. Courses indicated with an asterisk * receive an extra point in the grade point average calculation. Students taking these courses during the 10th, 11th, or 12th grades wi ll be awarded bonus points by the University of California (UC). The UC system will award bonus points for up to 8 semesters; i.e. A=5, B=4, C=3. College / University Acceptances: University High School students apply to and enroll at schools that reflect each student’s individual interests and strengths. The following post - secondary campus acceptances were reported by the class of 2010 . University High School, Irvine, CA Acadia 1 Adelphi 1 Aga Khan Medical University 1 American University 1 Arizona State U (Tempe) 9 Art Center 1 Art. Inst. of America 1 Azusa Pacific 7 Baylor 1 Berklee College of Music 1 Biola 3 Birmingham Southern 1 Boston College 12 Boston U 32 Bowdoin College 1 Brandeis 2 Brown 1 Bryn Mar College 1 California State Universities Cal Poly Pomona 25 Cal Poly SLO 42 Channel Islands 1 Chico 5 Dominguez Hills 2 East Bay 2 Fresno 1 Fullerton 76 Humboldt 1 Long Beach 47 Los Angeles 2 Monterey Bay 1 Northridge 7 Sacramento 3 San Diego 19 San Francisco 18 San Jose 7 San Marcos 1 Sonoma 11 Cal Baptist University 1 Cal Tech 5 Cal. Coll. of the Arts 3 Cal. Lutheran 2 Capitol University 1 1 Carnegie Mellon 9 Case Western Res. 3 Catholic Univ. of America 1 Chapman 17 Claremont McKenna 1 Clark University 2 Cleveland Inst. of Music 1 Coll. of the Holy Cross 1 Coll. of Wooster 1 Colorado Sch. of Mines 2 Columbia 2 Concordia 2 Connecticut College 1 Cornell 14 Culinary Inst. of America 1 Dartmouth 2 DePaul 1 Depauw 1 Drexel 5 Duke 5 Duquesne 1 Eldinboro 1 Elmhurst 1 Embry - Riddle 2 Emory 5 Evergreen State 2 Ferrum 1 FIDM 1 Florida State 1 Florida Atlantic University 1 Fordham 1 Furman 1 Gallaudet University 1 George Mason 2 George Washington 3 Georgetown 2 Georgia Inst. Of Tech. 3 Gonzaga 1 Goucher 1 Grinnell College 1 Hampton University 1 Hartford 1 Harvard 1 Hollins 1 Howard University 1 Illinois Inst. of Tech. 1 Indiana State 1 Indiana University 1 International Christian Uni. 1 International Inst. of Tech. 1 Iowa State 1 Ithaca 1 JNTU 1 Johns Hopkins 6 Kansas State 2 Kings College 1 Lewis and Clark 7 Loyola Marymount 13 Lycoming 1 Macalester 2 Marquette 2 Massachusetts Coll. of Pharm.1 McGill 2 Michigan State 1 MIT 2 Mount Holyoke 1 North Florida University 1 Northeastern 5 Northern Arizona University 6 Northwestern 9 Notre Dame de Namur 1 NYU 30 Oberlin 1 Occidental 6 Ohio State 3 Oklahoma State 1 Oregon State 2 Otis 5 Oxford College 2 Pace 2 Parsons 3 Penn State 3 Pepperdine 5 Pitzer 5 Point Loma Nazarene 6 Pomona 4 Pratt 1 Princeton 5 Principia College 1 Purdue 9 Reed 1 Rensselaer Poly Inst. 3 Rice 1 Ringling College of Art 1 Ripon College 1 Rochester Inst. of Tech. 1 Rutgers 4 Saint Louis University 1 San Francisco Art Inst. 1 Santa Clara 7 Sarah Lawrence 2 Sch. of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2 Scripps 4 Seattle University 2 Soka University 1 SMU 3 St. Francis Xavier University 1 St. Edward’s University 1 Saint Olaf 1 Siena College 1 Stanford 6 Syracuse 9 Texas A&M 1 Texas Christian University 2 The College of New Jersey 1 Trinity 2 Tufts 2 Tulane 5 U of Alabama 1 U of Arizona (Tucson) 11 U of Arkansas 1 U of British Columbia 2 University of California Berkeley 56 Davis 66 Irvine 172 Los Angeles 69 Merced 52 Riverside 89 San Diego 109 Santa Barbara 68 Santa Cruz 38 U of Chicago 5 U of Colorado (Boulder) 7 U of Colorado (Denver) 1 U of Hawaii 2 U of Illinois 5 U of Kansas 1 U of La Verne 3 U of Miami (Florida) 1 U of Michigan 7 U of Minnesota 2 U of Nebraska (Lincoln) 1 U of New Mexico 2 U of No Carolina (Chapel Hill) 2 U of Notre Dame 3 U of Oregon 5 U of Penn 3 U of Pittsburgh 3 U of Portland 1 U of Puget Sound 1 U of Redlands 2 U of Rochester 5 U of San Diego 6 U of San Francisco 4 U of the Pacific 11 U of Utah 1 U of Vermont 1 U of Washington 15 U of Wisconsin 3 USC 68 Vanderbilt 4 Vassar 1 Villanova 1 Virginia Tech 2 Wake Forest 1 Warren Wilson College 1 Washington State 1 Washington U of St. Louis 7 Wellesley 2 Wesleyan 2 West Point 1 West Virginia University 1 Western New England College 1 Westmont 5 Wheaton 1 Whitman 1 Whittier College 3 Whitworth 3 Widener 1 Willamette 3 Yale 2