School Accountability Report Card

Ahwahnee High School

School Year 2000-01

 

School:

 Name

 

Ahwahnee High School

 

District:

Name

Yosemite Joint Union High School District

Principal

Curt Campbell

 

Superintendent

Bill McCabe

Street

49980 Road 427

 

Street

50200 Road 427

City, State, Zip

Oakhurst, CA 93644

 

City, State, Zip

Oakhurst, CA 93644

Phone Number

559-683-8801

 

Phone Number

559-683-8801

Fax Number

559-683-4160

 

Fax Number

559-683-4160

Web Site

http://www.yosemiteuhsd.com

 

Web Site

http://www.yosemiteuhsd.com

Email Address

Ktooms@yosemiteuhsd.com

 

Email Address

Bmccabe@yosemiteuhsd.com

Enrollment

21

 

SARC contact

Earlene Ward, 683-8801 ext. 338

Grades Served

9-12

 

 

 

 

School Description and Vision Statement

Ahwahnee High School is a continuation school serving grades 9-12 in Eastern Madera County.  It is a part of the Yosemite Joint Union High School District and is located adjacent to Yosemite High School in Oakhurst.  This is a two-room school with all grades these rooms.  There is one certificated teacher and two paraeducators at the school.  The students have access to computers in the classroom and use them on a regular basis to complete their assignments.  The computers are connected to the Internet. Students transfer to Ahwahnee High School from Yosemite High School; some remain at AHS and graduate from there; others return to YHS to complete their schooling.

 

District Vision Statement

Connecting all students with their past, present, and future, the Yosemite Joint Union High School District will be a community or responsible young adults cooperatively learning creative problem solving skills to help them achieve their full potential as life-long learners, citizens, and workers.

 

THROUGH INVOLVEMENT IN THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM AND SOCIAL PREPARATION IN THE YOSEMITE JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO:

 

1.                  Understand and value one’s self, others, and our common heritage.

2.                  Communicate appropriately and effectively.

3.                  Be able to solve problems independently and as a group.

4.                  Be responsible decision-makers.

5.                  Define and value aesthetics.

6.                  Appreciate and value culture and environmental diversity and relationships.

7.                  Acquire, process, and utilize information using appropriate technology and other resources.

8.                  Be productive, active, ethical contributors to themselves, their families, communities, nations, and the world.

9.                  Develop a professional work ethic and sense of purpose.

10.              Be life-long learners.

 

Opportunities for Parental Involvement

Contact Person: Brenna Neely                                      Phone Number: 559-683-8801 ext. 336

 

Parents are welcome to be involved in any activities at AHS.  They are encouraged to be chaperones on field trips, to assist in the classroom, to help with graduation or to speak to the students.  They are invited to attend the oral presentation of the Senior Project each student is required to complete as a graduation requirement.

 

I.                   Demographic Information

The percentage of students is the number of students in a racial/ethnic category divided by the school’s most recent California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) total enrollment (October 2000).

 

Racial/Ethnic Category

Number of students

Percentage of students

 

Racial/Ethnic Category

Number of students

Percentage of students

American Indian or Alaska Native

3

14

 

Asian

0

0

Pacific Islander

0

0

 

Filipino

0

0

Hispanic/Latino

6

29

 

African American not Hispanic

0

0

White,  not of Hispanic origin

12

57

 

Multiple or no response

0

0

 

II.                School Safety and Climate for Learning

Ahwahnee High School maintains a safe and positive learning environment.  The school has a set of behavior standards to which the students must adhere; violations are dealt with in a prompt manner.  The staff and students respect each other.

 

School Safety Plan

Date of last review/update: 2000                                 Date last reviewed with staff: 2000

 

Key elements of the School Safety Plan include:

 

A.                 Personal Characteristics of Students and Staff

1.                  Goal: To help students overcome alcohol and other drug abuse.

2.                  Activities: Create a program to help students with their substance abuse.  Students may attend smoking cessation programs and may meet with a counselor to deal with substance abuse issues.

B.                 School’s Physical Environment

1.                  Goal: To monitor the area near the campus where students congregate to smoke and possibly use other substances.

2.                  Activities: This area is closely monitored by staff and the sheriff’s deputy assigned to the district.  Students no longer congregate in that area.

C.                 School’s Social Environment

1.                  Goal: To increase participation and involvement.

2.                  Activities: Adopt a portion of the sheriff’s department camp facility and work to maintain it; field trips; trips to fine arts events.

D.                 School’s Culture

1.                  Goal: To develop programs that allow students to bond with each other.

2.                  Activities: Same as School’s Social Environment.

 

The school has made excellent progress in meeting these key goals.  Staff and students will be surveyed early in the 2001-02 school year and the School Safety Plan will be revised and updated.

 

School Programs and Practices that Promote a Positive Learning Environment

AHS is a small school with a student/teacher ratio of no more than 10/1.  The staff demands that students show respect for themselves, their peers and the staff.  In turn, the staff respects the students.  There are a well-known set or rules to which the students adhere.  Students know the consequences of violating those rules.  Because of the size of the school and the nature of the program, staff and students develop a close, supportive relationship that helps promote a positive learning environment.  This year the school adopted the playground area at a camp the Madera County Sheriff’s Department operates in the area.  The students take pride in their work at that facility.

 

 


Suspensions and Expulsions

The number of suspensions and expulsions is the total number of incidents.  The rate of suspensions and expulsions is the total number of incidents divided by the school’s California Basic Educational Data Systems (CBEDS) total enrollment for the given year.

 

 

1999 (10-98 CBEDS)

2000 – (10-99 CBEDS)

2001 – Jan.-June (10-00 CBEDS)

 

School

District

School

District

School

District

Suspensions (number)

0

1

0

0

0

0

Suspensions (rate)

0

<1%

0

0

0

0

Expulsions (number)

0

0

0

0

1

1

Expulsions (rate)

0

0

0

0

<1%

<1%

Suspended expulsions (number)

0

12

0

20

0

10

Suspended expulsions (rate)

0

1%

0

1.5%

0

<1%

 

School Facilities

Ahwahnee High School is a two-room school composed of portable facilities that are located adjacent to Yosemite High School.  There is an area where students can play basketball; there are computers in the classrooms to which the students have access to complete their assignments.  All computers are connected to the Internet.

 

III.              Academic Data

Through the California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, students in grades 2-11 are tested annually in various subject areas.  Currently, the STAR program includes California Standard Tests (CST) in English Language Arts and Mathematics in grades 2-11and Science and History-Social Science in grades 9-11; and the Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition (Stanford 9) which tests Reading, Language, Mathematics (grades 2-11), Spelling (Grades 2-8) and Science and History-Social Science (Grades 9-11 only).  The Yosemite Joint Union High School District administers the Stanford 9 test to students in all of its schools.

 

Stanford 9

Reading and mathematics results from the Stanford 9 test are reported for each grade level as the percentage of tested students scoring at or above the 50th percentile (the national average).  School results are compared to results at the district and state levels.  To protect privacy, the state does not release scores based on 10 or fewer students; therefore, some scores for AHS students are not made available.  All of the district’s alternative schools are participating with the California Department of Education in developing and implementing the Alternative School Accountability Model (ASAM).

 


Reading (Percentage of students scoring at or above the 50th percentile)

Grade level

School

District

State

1999

2000

2001

1999

2000

2001

1999

2000

2001

9

NA

NA

NA

45

51

51

34

35

35

10

NA

NA

NA

49

53

45

33

34

34

11

NA

NA

NA

46

55

51

35

36

37

 

Mathematics (Percentage of students scoring at or above the 50th percentile)

Grade level

School

District

State

1999

2000

2001

1999

2000

2001

1999

2000

2001

9

NA

NA

NA

60

70

72

48

51

51

10

NA

NA

NA

53

63

48

44

46

45

11

NA

NA

NA

52

64

62

45

47

46

 

 

Subgroups (More than 10 students per grade level with test results)

There are no subgroups at AHS.

 

Racial/Ethnic Groups (More than 10 students per grade level with test results)

There are no racial/ethnic groups at AHS.

 

Local Assessment (Percentage of students meeting or exceeding the district standard)

No data is available for Ahwahnee High School

 

California Fitness Test (Percentage of students meeting fitness standards)

The percentage of students in grades 5, 7, and 9, as appropriate, who scored in the healthy fitness zone on all six fitness standards on the California Fitness Test.

No data is available for Ahwahnee High School

 

SAT I

The SAT I Reasoning Test, formally known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, is one of the tests available from The College Board that students voluntarily take for college entrance.  The SAT I is designed to assess many of the skills that are important to a student’s success in college.  The test may or may not be available to students at a given school.  Students may take the test more than once, but only the highest score is reported at the year of graduation.

 

No students from AHS have taken this examination in the past three years.

 

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