YOUR FUTURE TODAY School Profile 2017-2018 A 2015 National Blue Ribbon School

ACADEMY OF THE CANYONS Middle College High School 26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91355, (661)362-3056 phone, (661)255-2954 fax, CEEB# 053-262 Dr. Pete Getz, Principal www.academyofthecanyons.com

Community The William S. Hart Union High School District is located in Los Angeles County and serves the entire including the communities in the City of Santa Clarita, Castaic, Stevenson Ranch, and Tesoro del Valle. There are roughly 23,000 students enrolled in the district’s public schools and programs; which include six comprehensive high schools, six junior high schools, a continuation school, a regional occupational program, an independent learning school, a home school program, an adult school, and the middle college high school.

School A 2015 National Blue Ribbon School, Middle College High School (AOC) is a public alternative to the comprehensive high schools in the Schedule SCHOOL POPULATION William S. Hart Union High School District. AOC and COC have two full-term semesters Each grade averages about 100 students. From its establishment in 2000 to 2009, in the fall and spring. COC has short terms AOC served grades 11 and 12 and in 2009, during winter and summer. Per COC Board expanded to 400 students serving grades Regulations, grades 9-12 enroll during fall 1% African American/Black 9-12 after merging with the district’s Early and spring terms; and grades 11 and 12 can College High School. We offer students a enroll during winter and summer. AOC’s unique educational experience that fosters American Indian/Alaska daily schedule allows easy access to college 1% academic and personal success in the high Native classes throughout the day. High school school and college environments. Our staff classes can be quarter, semester, and year- is committed to effective classroom long in length. College classes are quarter Asian instruction, rigorous curricula, and quality 37% or semester in length. relationships between staff, students, parents, and our college partner. Our ACCREDITATION 23% Hispanic/Latino students dual-enroll at College of the Academy of the Canyons received a six

Canyons Community College (COC) to year accreditation from 2015-2021 from meet educational goals which include high the Western Association of Schools and 6% Multi-racial school graduation, college freshmen Colleges (WASC). admission, college transfer, an associate degree, and career certification. 32% White

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College of the Canyons 40% Male 60% Female 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355 www.canyons.edu CEEB Code: 004-117 YOUR FUTURE TODAY | 2017-2018 2

High School Curriculum AOC transcripts include all high school and Associate Degrees Students take honors and/or college college courses to show a student’s On average, students complete one year preparatory high school classes. Honors complete academic record. Both weighted (30 units) of transferable college level classes are offered in English 10-12, and unweighted GPAs and ranks are courses and have the opportunity to earn Modern Civilization, US History, American included. Assessing student success by an associate degree (60 units) by high Government, Economics, Chemistry, correlating GPA to class rank is an school graduation. inaccurate measure for comparison Algebra I, and Algebra II/Trigonometry. ASSOCIATE DEGREE TOTALS We do not offer Advanced Placement. Very amongst our high achieving population. Year # of Students few college classes are used to meet high CLASS OF 2017 GPA AND RANKS 2017 68 school graduation requirements except in Unweighted Rank Weighted Rank 2016 28 PE, practical art and fine art as AOC does 3.75 – 4.00 1-32 4.00 – 4.75 1-57 2015 15 not teach these subjects. 3.50 – 3.74 33-64 3.75 – 3.99 58-71

3.25 – 3.49 65-87 3.50 – 3.74 72-88 COC offers three types of degrees: a) those College Course Credit 3.00 – 3.24 88-99 3.00 – 3.49 89-103 awarded by COC using requirements set by Unlike common college/university practice, 2.75 – 2.99 100-106 2.75 – 2.99 103-106 the college; b) those using the general education requirements required by the UC the William S. Hart District does not award The above chart shows ranks and a full year of credit for college level courses; or CSU systems with a major of humanites, corresponding GPAs of the recent social science, or math and science; and instead, they use the following college unit graduating class. In both the unweighted to high school credit equivalency formula: c) those that are guaranteed transferable and weighted columns, the majority of the with junior standing to the CSU system. COLLEGE UNIT CONVERSION class earns grades in the highest GPA Students earn degrees in fields related to College Unit HS Credit ranges. The correlating ranks, however, the major they plan to pursue for a 1 1.5 don’t appear as high. Many students share bachelor’s degree or in other areas of 2 3 a rank which makes the next rank a higher interest. Earning an associate degree is our 3 5 number. For example, if ten students share most demanding educational path. 4, 5, 6 10 rank #4, the next rank will be #15. The PE classes 5 difference between GPAs is often only .001 Post Graduation Plans

or .002. If a “top ten rank” is assumed to Most AOC students continue their college GPAs and Class Ranks correspond to the 90th percentile or the education after graduation. For the Class of All AOC honors courses and and all college 3.5-4.0 GPA range, then for the Class of 2017, 70% went directly to a 4-year courses that are transferable to the 2017, students with a ranking of 1-64 are college/university, 28% continued at a University of or California State part of the Top Ten. 2-year community college, 1% enlisted in

University systems are weighted in the GPA the military, and 1% went to work full-time.

calculation for grades of A, B, and C except Dual Enrollment Limitations COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES for physical education courses. Weighted California State law limits full-time high UC: Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, GPAs and ranks are not necessarily an school students to a maximum of 11 college Davis, Santa Cruz, Riverside, Santa Barbara, equitable indicator of class or educational units per term. Many students could Merced; CSU: Northridge, Channel Islands, plan rigor. Students taking college math successfully complete more classes if Chico, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles; and science classes, which are 4, 5, or 6 allowed. For example, if a student is taking Sacremento State, San Diego State, San units, take fewer classes overall but earn a 5 unit college math class and a 4 unit Francisco State, San Jose State; Cal Poly San more weighted credit than students taking college science or language class, they Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pomona; Alabama, more 3 unit classes. For the past fifteen would not be able to take a general American, Art Center, Azusa Pacific, Berklee College of Music, Biola, Boston Coll, Boston U, years, AOC students have out performed all education class which averages 3 units. This BYU, CalTech, CalArts, CalLu, Chapman, other COC students enrolled in the same unit limitation prevents many students Claremont McKenna, Cornell, Drexel, Duke, courses. They are considered the most from completing both a third year of Embry-Riddle, Emerson, Emory, Florida St, successful sub-group attending the college. science and a third year of language as well GeorgiaTech, Gonzaga, Grand Canyon,

GPA SCALE as math during grades eleven and twelve. Harvey Mudd, Howard, Johns Hopkins, Lewis & Clark, Loyola Marymount, MIT, Master’s U, Mark Percent GPA Pts Weighted In order to complete general education and/or associate degree requirements, Mt. Holyoke, Mt. St. Mary’s, NYU, A 90-100 4 5 Northeastern, Notre Dame, Occidental, Ohio B 80-89 3 4 students must take college classes during summer and winter terms beginning after State, Otis College, Penn State, Pepperdine, C 70-79 2 3 , Portland State, Rice, Rose- tenth grade. We often compare the D 60-69 1 1 Hulman Institute of Tech, Savannah Coll F 0-59 0 0 grueling pace and schedule of rigorous Art/Design, Smith, St. John’s, Stanford, *Class rank is EXACT when reporting. classes to a marathon since it tests our Syracuse, Temple, Texas Tech, US Air Force students in similar ways. Academy, USMA Westpoint, U Chicago, U Kansas, UMass Amherst, U Maryland, U Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, UPenn, U San Diego, USC, UoP, U Victoria, U Waterloo, Washington Coll, Wellesley, Westmont, etc.