Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton, California)
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Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, formerly known as Sacred Heart Preparatory, Sacred Heart Prep, or, more colloquially, SHP, is an independent private, Society of the Sacred Heart
affiliated college preparatory school in Atherton
, California
, USA
. It was established in 1898 and is located at 150 Valparaiso Avenue across the street from Menlo Park
.
It has a student population of approximately 550 in Grades 9 through 12. There are currently about 100 faculty and staff with the vast majority of staff holding advanced degrees.
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, as well as all other schools within the Society of the Sacred Heart, strives to instill in its students its five goals for education:
GOAL I: A personal and active faith in God
GOAL II: A deep respect for intellectual values
GOAL III: A social awareness which impels to action
GOAL IV: The building of community as a Christian value
GOAL V: Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom
Each year, during the graduation of the senior class, traditional "light blue ribbons" are awarded to ten graduates, one male and one female per goal, who embody each individual goal, as voted upon by the student body and faculty. Also, during this same ceremony, two seniors, one male and one female, are awarded the "dark blue ribbon," the school's most prestigious award, which is bestowed upon the student whom the faculty and fellow graduates feel best embody the entirety of the five goals of a Sacred Heart education.
The School went co-educational in the 1970s and became one of only three Sacred Heart Schools in the country to educate in this fashion. The school continued to grow, and now the ratio between male and females is nearly equal. The school also ended its boarding program in earlier years, and has evolved into the present Sacred Heart Schools Atherton.
, and graduates consistently go on to attend top-tier universities, most notably Ivy League
colleges, The University of California, Berkeley, The University of Notre Dame, Stanford University
, The University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University
, and Northwestern University
among others. Sacred Heart graduates 100% of the students with 100% of the student body being accepted and attending four year universities. Small class sizes, averaging 15 students lead to high levels of interaction between students and faculty.
Students are required to take a minimum of 4 years of English
; 3.5 years of History
and Religious studies
; 3 years of Mathematics
, Science
, and Foreign language
; 1.5 years of Fine art
s; and 2 semesters of physical education
.
SHP offers the following Foreign Languages: French
, Latin
, Spanish
, and Mandarin Chinese.
Beyond their freshman year, qualified students can take honors courses in most subject areas. Furthermore, 21 Advanced Placement courses are offered. Typically, the overall national AP exam passing rate is about 80%. In 2008, there was a 98% pass rate of students taking the AP Exam for AP US History. Likewise, there was a 93% pass rate for AP World History in 2010.
The girls basketball teams 1993-1996 won 4 straight state championships including a 3 year record of 113-1. Many of the girls went on to play at Div 1 colleges including Felts (Colorado) Kenon (Cal) Circle (USC/Colorado) and Robinson (Virginia) It was an unprecedented string of success that has yet to be matched by a Northern California school.
Some of SHP's athletic teams compete among the top athletic high schools in the state with the main focus on the football and tennis teams. The 2006 and 2008 Men's Varsity basketball teams won the Division V CCS championships in their respective years. The football team is ranked 6th in the CCS Northern California Standings. The girls volleyball team won Division IV CCS Championship the fall of 2009. The men's tennis team were national champions last year. In addition, the Men's Varsity Water Polo team has won the CCS Division II championship from 2007-2009.
Also, the Athletic Department allows students the opportunity to announce home athletic events, showing their continuing support of student participation in the Sacred Heart Community.
, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Jazz Combo, and AP Music Theory. In the Visual Arts department, Drawing & Painting, Ceramic
s, AP Studio Art, Photography
, Intro to Documentary Film, and Images in Motion are all offered. Finally, Drama
, Rehearsal & Performance, Student Directing Projects, Technical Theater Production, and Dance
are all available.
s, both student-led and faculty-sponsored. Some sports themed ones are: Scuba
Club, Squash
Club, Bowling
Club, Dance
Team, Football
Club, Hacky Sack
Club, Ski
Club, Surfing
Club, and Ultimate Frisbee. Other more academic clubs include: the Debate team, National Honor Society
, and Quiz Bowl Club; and few multicultural clubs are: French
Club, Model United Nations
, Multicultural Club, and the Italian Club.
The most popular clubs are the Harry Potter
club, the barbecue
club, the Women's Group, the skateboard
club, the Guitar Hero
club, the "Bocci Ball Club", the library gamer's club, the Rocky Horror Picture Show Club, The Young Democrats
' Club, and The Young Republicans
' Club. Recently, the popular and specialized Robotics
Club was converted to a certified class, still participating in statewide and national competitions.
Sacred Heart has an active Student Government consisting of both class officers and associated student body (ASB) officers.
One of the most predominant and established club institutions at Sacred Heart is Journalism
. The Journalism Club Course enrolls students to its staff every semester and consistently has between 40 and 60 members (over 10% of the entire school population). The Journalism team produces a tri-weekly (as of the 2008-2009 school year) newspaper known as The Heart Beat. The structure of the journalism staff includes: staff writers, staff photographers, section editors, senior editors, editors-in-chief, and a faculty moderator.
SHP also has a Yearbook committee, which creates the famous book for every year.
, students are required to do 25 independent hours of community service, a justice project, and a charity project, each requiring 25 hours of community service.
Every year in February, an interclass competition week titled "SPIRIT WEEK" is held. It is a staple of student life in the academic year. Traditionally, each class is associated with a color: The Freshmen given green, the Sophomores, yellow, the Juniors, blue, and the Seniors are traditionally red. Once assigned a color, each class is given the task of finding a theme that pertains to this color. Then they will decorate various lobbies, sections in the assembly hall, and other areas of campus according to their theme. Class competitions are held daily during the week, with especially heightened intensity between Juniors and Seniors. Despite the Seniors almost inevitably winning, the heat of the competition still exists. Events include, Quiz Bowl, Inflatable Olympics, Scavenger Hunts, Rock n' Jock, Secret Event, Ping Pong, and Mario Kart. The winning class of SPIRIT WEEK is announced on the final day of events and is tallied based on a point-per-event system.
100% of students attend a four year college after attending Sacred Heart Preparatory. The College Counseling office begins working with students in their sophomore year and then beginning their Junior year, students receive a specific college counselor who will guide them through the college process during the fall of Senior year.
One of the sustainable programs featured on the Sacred Heart Preparatory campus are the vegetable gardens located in the "Dioli Circle" behind the Sigall Building, behind the faculty parking lot in front of the Sigall Building, and surrounding the perimeter of the new (2009) Michael J. Homer Science and Student Life Center. These gardens are known colloquially as "Slafter's Gardens" for the popular history teacher Dr. Slafter who is known to religiously maintain the crops and has developed a course that works and studies the garden. Slafter is known as one of the most awesome members of the staff and also one of the most difficult to find on campus because he is always working on one of Sacred Heart Prep's gardens or feeding the various livestock that are also on campus. He is quite possibly the most kind and brilliant person you will ever meet. Stop by campus and see for yourself.
Center For Student Success (CSS)
Sacred Heart Schools endeavors to create a culture that promotes self-esteem, a positive attitude toward learning and the optimal attainment of the educational goals of every student in our community. Seeking to assist students to realize their potential in an environment that promotes self-awareness, self-motivation and self-advocacy in a comprehensively accessible environment, SHP created the Center for Student Success or CSS. The CSS is staffed with two full-time teachers and a Board Certified Educational Therapist. The CSS provides academic support for all students in grades 9-12. Faculty and learning resource specialists provide assistance to students with subject tutoring, study skills, time management and test-taking strategies. The Center also coordinates on-campus and College Board accommodations for students with verified learning differences.
Society of the Sacred Heart
The Society of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic religious congregation established in France by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. It has presence in 45 countries. Membership to the Society is restricted to women only. Its members do many works, but focus on education, particularly girls'...
affiliated college preparatory school in Atherton
Atherton, California
Atherton is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 6,914 at the 2010 census. In September 2010, Forbes magazine placed Atherton's zip code of 94027 at #2 on its annual list of America's most expensive zip codes, with a median home price of $4,010,200...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was established in 1898 and is located at 150 Valparaiso Avenue across the street from Menlo Park
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; Atherton, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City...
.
It has a student population of approximately 550 in Grades 9 through 12. There are currently about 100 faculty and staff with the vast majority of staff holding advanced degrees.
Mission and The Five Goals
Sacred Heart's mission is "to educate the whole child to be a leader who loves God and serves others." Despite the school's Catholic foundation, it welcomes students and faculty of all religious denominations.Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, as well as all other schools within the Society of the Sacred Heart, strives to instill in its students its five goals for education:
GOAL I: A personal and active faith in God
GOAL II: A deep respect for intellectual values
GOAL III: A social awareness which impels to action
GOAL IV: The building of community as a Christian value
GOAL V: Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom
Each year, during the graduation of the senior class, traditional "light blue ribbons" are awarded to ten graduates, one male and one female per goal, who embody each individual goal, as voted upon by the student body and faculty. Also, during this same ceremony, two seniors, one male and one female, are awarded the "dark blue ribbon," the school's most prestigious award, which is bestowed upon the student whom the faculty and fellow graduates feel best embody the entirety of the five goals of a Sacred Heart education.
History
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton was founded in 1898 as a Roman Catholic women's boarding school in the tradition of the Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) in Menlo Park, CA. Construction of what is now known as the "Main Building" began in the same year.The School went co-educational in the 1970s and became one of only three Sacred Heart Schools in the country to educate in this fashion. The school continued to grow, and now the ratio between male and females is nearly equal. The school also ended its boarding program in earlier years, and has evolved into the present Sacred Heart Schools Atherton.
Academics
Sacred Heart holds a reputation for very strong academics, especially on the West CoastWest Coast of the United States
West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. The term most often refers to the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Although not part of the contiguous United States, Alaska and Hawaii do border the Pacific Ocean but can't be included in...
, and graduates consistently go on to attend top-tier universities, most notably Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
colleges, The University of California, Berkeley, The University of Notre Dame, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, The University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, and Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
among others. Sacred Heart graduates 100% of the students with 100% of the student body being accepted and attending four year universities. Small class sizes, averaging 15 students lead to high levels of interaction between students and faculty.
Students are required to take a minimum of 4 years of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
; 3.5 years of History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and Religious studies
Religious studies
Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to...
; 3 years of Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and Foreign language
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
; 1.5 years of Fine art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
s; and 2 semesters of physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
.
SHP offers the following Foreign Languages: French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, and Mandarin Chinese.
Beyond their freshman year, qualified students can take honors courses in most subject areas. Furthermore, 21 Advanced Placement courses are offered. Typically, the overall national AP exam passing rate is about 80%. In 2008, there was a 98% pass rate of students taking the AP Exam for AP US History. Likewise, there was a 93% pass rate for AP World History in 2010.
Athletics
Sacred Heart offers a total of 21 sports programs. There are 11 team sports for boys and 10 for girls, but most students choose to go out for multiple sports. Boys and girls compete in soccer, basketball, water polo, tennis, swimming, track cross country, and lacrosse. Girls can also play softball and volleyball, while boys can enjoy baseball, golf, and football. A men's volleyball program will start in 2010.The girls basketball teams 1993-1996 won 4 straight state championships including a 3 year record of 113-1. Many of the girls went on to play at Div 1 colleges including Felts (Colorado) Kenon (Cal) Circle (USC/Colorado) and Robinson (Virginia) It was an unprecedented string of success that has yet to be matched by a Northern California school.
Some of SHP's athletic teams compete among the top athletic high schools in the state with the main focus on the football and tennis teams. The 2006 and 2008 Men's Varsity basketball teams won the Division V CCS championships in their respective years. The football team is ranked 6th in the CCS Northern California Standings. The girls volleyball team won Division IV CCS Championship the fall of 2009. The men's tennis team were national champions last year. In addition, the Men's Varsity Water Polo team has won the CCS Division II championship from 2007-2009.
Also, the Athletic Department allows students the opportunity to announce home athletic events, showing their continuing support of student participation in the Sacred Heart Community.
Fine Arts
Along with athletics, Sacred Heart offers a wide variety of programs in the arts. In the Music department, students are invited to take ChorusChoir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Jazz Combo, and AP Music Theory. In the Visual Arts department, Drawing & Painting, Ceramic
Ceramic
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...
s, AP Studio Art, Photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, Intro to Documentary Film, and Images in Motion are all offered. Finally, Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, Rehearsal & Performance, Student Directing Projects, Technical Theater Production, and Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
are all available.
Clubs
The school offers over 40 clubClub
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so forth.- History...
s, both student-led and faculty-sponsored. Some sports themed ones are: Scuba
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....
Club, Squash
Squash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
Club, Bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
Club, Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
Team, Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
Club, Hacky Sack
Hacky Sack
thumb|right|200px|A Hacky SackHacky Sack is the trademarked name of a type of footbag.-History:The name "hacky sack" came from the 1972 inventors of the Footbag, John Stalberger and Mike Marshall. Although Marshall suffered a fatal heart attack in 1975, Stalberger continued the business. At a...
Club, Ski
Ski
A ski is a long, flat device worn on the foot, usually attached through a boot, designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow. Originally intended as an aid to travel in snowy regions, they are now mainly used for recreational and sporting purposes...
Club, Surfing
Surfing
Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
Club, and Ultimate Frisbee. Other more academic clubs include: the Debate team, National Honor Society
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, and Quiz Bowl Club; and few multicultural clubs are: French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
Club, Model United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, Multicultural Club, and the Italian Club.
The most popular clubs are the Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
club, the barbecue
Barbecue
Barbecue or barbeque , used chiefly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia is a method and apparatus for cooking meat, poultry and occasionally fish with the heat and hot smoke of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of...
club, the Women's Group, the skateboard
Skateboard
A skateboard is typically a specially designed plywood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability, used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. The first skateboards to reach public notice came out of the surfing craze of the early 1960s,...
club, the Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...
club, the "Bocci Ball Club", the library gamer's club, the Rocky Horror Picture Show Club, The Young Democrats
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
' Club, and The Young Republicans
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
' Club. Recently, the popular and specialized Robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
Club was converted to a certified class, still participating in statewide and national competitions.
Sacred Heart has an active Student Government consisting of both class officers and associated student body (ASB) officers.
One of the most predominant and established club institutions at Sacred Heart is Journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
. The Journalism Club Course enrolls students to its staff every semester and consistently has between 40 and 60 members (over 10% of the entire school population). The Journalism team produces a tri-weekly (as of the 2008-2009 school year) newspaper known as The Heart Beat. The structure of the journalism staff includes: staff writers, staff photographers, section editors, senior editors, editors-in-chief, and a faculty moderator.
SHP also has a Yearbook committee, which creates the famous book for every year.
Student Life
Sacred Heart offers a diverse array of activities through which students can develop their intellectual, social, political, and cultural interests. Stressing the importance of a commitment to the broader communityCommunity
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
, students are required to do 25 independent hours of community service, a justice project, and a charity project, each requiring 25 hours of community service.
Every year in February, an interclass competition week titled "SPIRIT WEEK" is held. It is a staple of student life in the academic year. Traditionally, each class is associated with a color: The Freshmen given green, the Sophomores, yellow, the Juniors, blue, and the Seniors are traditionally red. Once assigned a color, each class is given the task of finding a theme that pertains to this color. Then they will decorate various lobbies, sections in the assembly hall, and other areas of campus according to their theme. Class competitions are held daily during the week, with especially heightened intensity between Juniors and Seniors. Despite the Seniors almost inevitably winning, the heat of the competition still exists. Events include, Quiz Bowl, Inflatable Olympics, Scavenger Hunts, Rock n' Jock, Secret Event, Ping Pong, and Mario Kart. The winning class of SPIRIT WEEK is announced on the final day of events and is tallied based on a point-per-event system.
100% of students attend a four year college after attending Sacred Heart Preparatory. The College Counseling office begins working with students in their sophomore year and then beginning their Junior year, students receive a specific college counselor who will guide them through the college process during the fall of Senior year.
Programs for Students
Dr. Slafter's GardenOne of the sustainable programs featured on the Sacred Heart Preparatory campus are the vegetable gardens located in the "Dioli Circle" behind the Sigall Building, behind the faculty parking lot in front of the Sigall Building, and surrounding the perimeter of the new (2009) Michael J. Homer Science and Student Life Center. These gardens are known colloquially as "Slafter's Gardens" for the popular history teacher Dr. Slafter who is known to religiously maintain the crops and has developed a course that works and studies the garden. Slafter is known as one of the most awesome members of the staff and also one of the most difficult to find on campus because he is always working on one of Sacred Heart Prep's gardens or feeding the various livestock that are also on campus. He is quite possibly the most kind and brilliant person you will ever meet. Stop by campus and see for yourself.
Center For Student Success (CSS)
Sacred Heart Schools endeavors to create a culture that promotes self-esteem, a positive attitude toward learning and the optimal attainment of the educational goals of every student in our community. Seeking to assist students to realize their potential in an environment that promotes self-awareness, self-motivation and self-advocacy in a comprehensively accessible environment, SHP created the Center for Student Success or CSS. The CSS is staffed with two full-time teachers and a Board Certified Educational Therapist. The CSS provides academic support for all students in grades 9-12. Faculty and learning resource specialists provide assistance to students with subject tutoring, study skills, time management and test-taking strategies. The Center also coordinates on-campus and College Board accommodations for students with verified learning differences.
See also
- San Mateo County high schools
- National Association of Independent SchoolsNational Association of Independent SchoolsThe National Association of Independent Schools is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1963, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, boarding, and day/boarding schools; elementary and secondary...
- Schools of the Sacred HeartSchools of the sacred heartThe Schools of The Sacred Heart Network is a network of private, Catholic schools throughout the world. The program revolves around five goals:*Educate to a personal and active faith in God*Educate to a deep respect for intellectual values...