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2016-2017 School Profile Washburn High School 2016-2017 School Profile th 201 West 49 Street School_______________ Curriculum Description_____ Minneapolis, MN 55419 Built in 1925, Washburn is one of seven A comprehensive curriculum emphasizes Main Office public high schools in Minneapolis. The preparation for college. The International ph: 612-668-3400 school has an enrollment of 1644 Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme was fax:612-668-3410 students in grades 9-12. The 2017 senior authorized beginning in the 2010-2011 school class numbers 354 students. Washburn is year. Along with college-level coursework, Counseling Office accredited by the Minnesota Department students are engaged in independent research ph: 612-668-3502 of Education and the North Central and creative, physical and community service fax: 612-668-3423 Association of Colleges and Secondary activities, all of which can lead to the awarding Schools. of the internationally-recognized International Website Baccalaureate Diploma. http://washburn.mpls.k12.mn.us/ Community___________ Rigorous Coursework_______ CEEB Code Washburn High School is located in the 241-695 Tangletown neighborhood of south International Baccalaureate: Minneapolis amidst the city’s beautiful IB HL Language & Lit. IB SL Physics Rhonda Dean lakes and parkways. The city of IB HL Literature IB SL Chemistry Principal Minneapolis with a population near IB SL Biology IB SL Math 400,000 is the urban hub of metropolitan IB SL/HL French IB SL Math Studies Loretta Collins area of over two million people. IB SL/HL Spanish IB HL Math Counselor A-D Minneapolis is nationally recognized for IB Theory of Knowledge IB HL Visual Arts innovative education, recreation and arts IB HL Hist. Americas IB SL Visual Arts Herb Crowell initiatives. IB SL Environmental Systems & Societies Counselor E-J IB SL Sports Exercise and Health Mission_______________ Amy Webster Advanced Placement: Statistics, US History, Counselor K-M Human Geography (beginning Class of 2018), Through intercultural understanding and English Literature (beginning Class of 2019). respect, WHS’s mission is to ensure John Pemberton Counselor N-Sa students’ academic and social growth in an environment that fosters active student Course Rigor Determination Teresa Savage involvement while nurturing As Washburn’s programming changes from Counselor Sb-Z compassionate life- long learners and year to year, it is critical to note that every global citizens. Education at Washburn fall, the Counseling staff reviews each senior Danielle Seifert takes place within integrated/inclusive transcript as a team and objectively Eman Adbdullahi classrooms where instruction focuses on determines, through a scoring system, the Career Center Coordinators raising the achievement of all students rigor of each student’s 4-year course load. thereby narrowing the gaps between the This determination can be found on the Maggie Carlson highest and the lowest performing Common App Counselor Report of any Counseling Office Specialist students and eliminating the racial individual institutional college report which predictability and disproportionality of requires such rating. Please call the student’s which student groups occupy the highest counselor if you have further questions. and lowest achievement categories. Graduation Requirements Post-Secondary Plans_______ Student Demographics___ Students need 21.5 credits to qualify for The matriculation of the 3036 includes 80% graduation. Students can register for 7 In the last six years a district-wide shift who were planning to attend a post-secondary classes (3.5 credits) per semester. from open attendance policies to a institution. 53% were planning on attending a Required credits include the following: commitment to proximate, community 4-year college or university and 27% were schools has resulted in. Still, Washburn planning on attending a 2-year community or English: 4 credits has a very ethnically and technical college. 20% were planning on Social Studies: 4 credits socioeconomically diverse student body. enlisting in the military, entering the Math: 3 credits More than 15 different languages are workforce or taking a “gap year.” The ACT is Science: 3 credits spoken at Washburn and 43% of our mandated for all Minneapolis Public Schools Phy Ed: 1 credit students meet federal poverty guidelines for all students. 94.7% of all Washburn seniors Health: 1 credit qualifying them for free or reduced took the ACT. The average score was 22.12. Fine Arts: 1 credit lunch. The average ACT score for students who Electives: 4.5 credits chose to take at least one additional ACT on a White American: 53.2% national test date was 24.08. 85.6% of the students from the Class of African American: 22.2% 2016 who were enrolled at Washburn Hispanic American: 17.5% Extracurricular Activities_ Asian American: 4.9% through May 2016 graduated with their Sports: Alpine Skiing, Badminton, Baseball, Native American: 2.2% class. Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Ice Hockey, Special Programs_______ Lacrosse, Mountain Biking, Nordic Skiing, Grading System_________ Rugby, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and Diving, Tennis, Track and Field, Ultimate AVID Washburn operates on a 7-period day. Frisbee, Volleyball, Wrestling Educational Talent Search Students receive a letter grade at the end of each 9-week quarter. Washburn does Upward Bound Other: Choir, Concert Band, Gay/Straight rank students but does not weight grades. Project Success Alliance, Jazz Ensemble, National Honor Both rank and GPA are cumulative and Genesys Works Society, Orchestra, Policy Debate, Robotics, computed quarterly for all courses taken Student Government, Yearbook, Musical in which a letter grade is received. Each Theater letter grade is assigned a numerical point value. The number of grade points is divided by the number of total grades to determine GPA. Minnesota offers a dual post-secondary enrollment (PSEO) which allows qualified students to take courses at local colleges and universities. PSEO courses’ letter grades are included in GPA and rank determination. A = 4.00 C = 2.00 A- = 3.67 C- = 1.67 B+ = 3.33 D+ = 1.33 B = 3.00 D = 1.00 B- = 2.67 D- = 0.67 C+ = 2.33 F = 0.00 Courses designated Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) are Pass/Fail. These grades are not calculated as part of GPA. STUDENTS FROM THE CLASS OF 2016 WERE ACCEPTED TO THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS Academy of Art University Emory University Alabama A&M University Flagler College Alexandria Technical and Community College Florida Southern College The University of Arizona University of Florida The Art Institutes International Minnesota George Washington University Augsburg College Fort Lewis College Beloit College Goucher College Bemidji State University Grinnell College Bennington College Gustavus Adolphus College Blackhawk Technical College Hennepin Technical College Bradley University Hillsborough Community College Brandeis University Hofstra University Bridgewater College Humber College Bryn Mawr College University of Illinois at Chicago Butler University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of California, Berkeley Illinois Wesleyan University University of California, Davis Iowa Lakes Community College University of California, Irvine Iowa State University University of California, Santa Barbara Iowa Western Community College Carthage College Kalamazoo College Case Western Reserve University University of Kansas Clarke University Lake Forest College Coe College Lehigh University University of Colorado at Boulder Lewis & Clark College University of Colorado at Denver Loyola Marymount University Colorado State University Loyola University Chicago Columbia College Chicago Luther College Concordia College - Moorhead Manchester University Connecticut College McGill University Dakota County Technical College Metropolitan State University Denison University Miami University, Oxford DePaul University University of Miami DePauw University Miami-Dade College Drake University Michigan State University Duke University University of Michigan Dunwoody College of Technology Mills College Eckerd College Minneapolis Community and Technical College Elmhurst College Minnesota State University, Mankato University of Minnesota, Twin Cities St. Olaf College University of Minnesota, Duluth College of St. Scholastica University of Mississippi Syracuse University University of Missouri Columbia The Ohio State University University of Missouri Kansas City Trinity International University Montana State University, Bozeman Union College The University of Montana, Missoula University of Northwestern Morehouse College Upper Iowa University Mount Holyoke College University of Utah Normandale Community College Valparaiso University New College of Florida Wartburg College New York University University of Washington North Dakota State University Whitman College Northern Michigan University Willamette University Northern State University Winona State University Northwestern College University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences University of Wisconsin, La Crosse University of Oregon University of Wisconsin, Madison Pennsylvania State University - All Campuses University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Providence College University of Wisconsin, Platteville University of Puget Sound University of Wisconsin, Stout University of Redlands The College of Wooster Reed College Xavier University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Ridgewater College Roanoke College Rockhurst
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