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Part A: School and Community Status

The School Community The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District (SMJUHSD) is located on the Central Coast of California in the Santa Maria Valley. Santa Maria is a small urban community with a population of 100,062. Seventy percent of the population is Hispanic. The surrounding valley has a population of 161,000. This area is primarily a rural agricultural area with some influence from the Vandenberg Air Force base impacting the southern part of the Santa Maria Valley, especially the community of Orcutt. The Santa Maria Valley is isolated geographically and culturally from any large urban community and related urban services. Allan Hancock College (AHC), a community college, is located in Santa Maria. The closest universities are about an hour's drive away - California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo and University of California at Santa Barbara. The high school district has three comprehensive high schools (Pioneer Valley, Righetti, and Santa Maria High Schools) and Delta Continuation High School. The district serves students from six feeder elementary districts within a 558 square-mile area. Most of these feeder districts are characterized by high minority enrollment, large percentages of English learners (EL), and pockets of extreme poverty.

The most recent Census Data (2010) for the communities served by the high school district provides the following statistics from the poverty index:

Community Percent of families Percent of Persons Percent of high Percent of speaking a language at or below Poverty school graduates Bachelor degrees other than English Level 25+ years 25+ years State = 43% State = 13.7% State = 80.7% State = 30.1% Santa Barbara 36.0% 14.1% 84.5% 42.3% Lompoc 44.0% 18.9% 74.4% 14.1% Santa Maria 61.5% 17.7% 62.6% 12.9% Guadalupe 74.1% 14.8% 47.8% 4.0%

In reviewing the statistics for the entire county of Santa Barbara, Guadalupe has the highest percent of language learners and the lowest graduation rates. It is followed by Santa Maria. All of the students at Pioneer and Santa Maria High School come from the community of Santa Maria.

Additional indicators of the poverty level and low educational level of the students’ families in this district are the percent of students receiving Free and Reduced lunches, the parent education level, the percent of English language learners and the percent of minority students enrolled in the schools. The table below provides current data on these indicators. When comparing these factors against its API scores, Santa Maria High School, although the API scores have not reached 700 yet, has shown to provide an excellent education for the students who come from historically lower performing backgrounds.

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DISTRICT/SITE RANKING (From Data Quest Website) SITE 2011-2012 2011-2012 2011-2012 2011-2012 2011-2012 Free and ELL Hispanic Parent API Reduced Population Enrollment Education 2011 Base Lunch (CBEDS) 1=not HS grad, 2= HS grad, 3=Some College District Average 63% 20% 78% 2.28 706 Delta 66% 29% 77% 2.27 475 Pioneer 71% 18% 86% 2.14 721 Righetti 34% 7% 53% 3.04 748 Santa Maria 82% 34% 92% 1.7 678

WASC Accreditation History Santa Maria High School earned a three-year status on its last review in March 2007. A mid-term review and report was completed prior to the March 2010 WASC mid-term visit. Santa Maria High School earned another three-year WASC status from the 2010 report and visit - the highest available at the time.

School Purpose Santa Maria High School has always had high expectations for all its students. Students are consistently encouraged to enroll in challenging classes, to pursue higher education opportunities and to explore a myriad of career options.

Santa Maria High School has a clearly stated Mission Statement:

The Santa Maria High School learning community commits to work collaboratively to:  Provide a safe learning environment.  Develop and uphold high expectations for all students  Personalize support for student learning.  Engage students in higher order thinking skills such as decision-making, problem solving, critique and analysis.  Improve student achievement in reading, writing and mathematics.  Provide opportunities for students to be successful on all assessments.

At the August 13th, 2012 in-service, the staff developed a new vision statement. The following is the Santa Maria High School Vision Statement:

Inspiring all students to be life-long learners who can determine their own success.

Site administration and staff established goals that support the district’s approved goals. The ESLR’s at Santa Maria High School (approved 2002) address fundamental literacy skills. The ESLR’s are:

READING Student readers will construct meaning, make connections, and interpret a wide variety of materials. Two indicators:  Improve students’ vocabulary by using Word Bank.  Improve comprehension

WRITING Every student will write meaningful and correctly constructed sentences, paragraphs and essays. Assess these: sentences, paragraphs, essays. Three indicators:  Subject-verb agreement, correct capitalization and sentence sense.  Proper use of vocabulary  Good spelling skills MATH Every student will solve problems utilizing basic math computation skills. Think tank problems will develop and assess the following skills:  The four basic functions with whole numbers.  Fractions and decimals  Percents/ratios  Measurement (Including area and volume)  Charts and graphs.

Extra Curricular Activities Santa Maria High School offers a wide variety of extra curricular activities. Any student who maintains a grade point average of 2.0 is eligible to participate in these activities. Fall Sports include Cross-country, Football, Boys’ Water Polo, Girls’ Tennis, Girls’ Volleyball and Girls’ Golf and Girls’ Tennis. Winter Sports include Boys’ Basketball, Girls’ Basketball, Boys’ Soccer, Wrestling, Girls’ Water Polo and Girls’ Soccer. Spring Sports include Baseball, Softball, Boys’ Volleyball, Swimming, Boys’ Tennis, Track & Field & Boys’ Golf. There are 37 clubs at Santa Maria High School. They cover an array of student interests and service activities: foreign language, agriculture, business, the arts and culture, sports, engineering, racing, American Red Cross, and community volunteering.

School Safety, Cleanliness and Facilities Santa Maria High School is a safe, clean, and orderly school with a positive and nurturing learning environment. The school has six security officers on duty from 7:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. We also have a School Resource Officer (SRO) and a Santa Barbara County Probation Officer. SMHS has a ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy for acts of violence. Students involved in violent acts are suspended and the SRO and probation officer are contacted. There are on-going construction projects which may cause some disruption of normal access. The students and staff have responded extremely well and this has not caused a significant hindrance on the campus.

Project Name Start Finish Details Date Date Football/Soccer June 6 New Home bleachers replaced Visitor bleachers, new Field renovation Graduation synthetic turf field (Sprint Turf), New track 2008 (Rubberized All Weather Track), new press box, new landscaping and general clean up of area. Multimedia December December Cost- $2.5 Million, Original library/kitchen facility Learning Center 2008 2009 completely gutted. Modernized to include Xerox, ASB and Student store. Library increased by 2800 sq ft including textbook storage system. QEIA 12 Portable June August 2009 Cost- $700,000, 12 brand new portable classrooms Classroom 2009 installed as part of class size reduction component of Installation QEIA. Designed for 11 classrooms and 1 full Computer Lab. Wilson Gym Floor June August Cost- $50,000, Gym floor sanded to bare wood, new Resurfacing 2009 2009 game line design, sealed and floor finish applied. Room 414,420,421 June August Cost-$35,000, required asbestos removal, carpet replacement 2009 2009 replacement of carpet. Roof Replacement June August Cost- $135,000, Replace roof 220’s 2010 2010 Roof Replacement June August 2011 Cost- $150,000, Replace roof, Asbestos removal Ag Building 330’s 2011 Administration June August Reorganize and consolidate staff to simplify student Building 2011 2011 service access. Example-locate 5 Guidance Reorganization Technicians in same office area. Band room December April Cost- $83,000 Provide acoustical improvements to acoustical 2009 2012/ongoing original band room and then temp band room as improvements program grows Landscape Area June December Cost- $22,000 Renovate landscaping area in central renovation MMLC 2010 2010 part of campus. Includes tree, grass, flowers, and Area benches. Lunch table are June August Cost- $15,000 Install outdoor eating area near dining installation 2011 2011 hall. Include low maintenance area, tables. Girls Softball field October January Cost- $18,000 Repair Home plate backboard, dugout upgrades 2011 2012 and bleachers. Install Batting cage system and bull pen training area. Swimming Pool June 2011 September Cost $3.5 Million, Install of 35m x 25m swimming 2012 pool complex. Includes Full concession stand and rest room facility to serve both pool and stadium.

Other construction and renovation projects planned for the next two years include:  Eight permanent classrooms - The district is working on a feasibility study to determine the number of classrooms and funding options from the state. The classrooms would be located between Ethel Pope Auditorium and the Administration Building in the front of the school.  Ethel Pope Auditorium (EPA) - The Board approved hiring an architect to begin the development of blueprints for the renovation of EPA during the 2008-09 school year. A construction timeline has not been established.

Technology The Multi-Media Learning Center renovation added an extensive technology infrastructure integrated into the building. There is a 30-station NComputing lab for student use both in the MMLC and in room 520. With funding from the Business department and School Site Council, the Intervention Through Technology Credit Recovery class has installed a new lab through A1 to 1 Computing. Using this same server based scheme, room 636 has been upgraded for our reading improvement classes using the Reading Plus program.

Using 2010 School Improvement Grant (SIG) money, 120 iPads were purchased for classroom use. There are three sets of students using these six class sets. The use is not at capacity due to connectivity, printing, loss of files and needed teacher training. There are also issues with the Apple licensing scheme and the inability to access free software due to the districts network/security configurations.

The current five-year technology plan addresses the real needs for updated and replacement of teacher work stations. The district does not have a plan in place for funding these replacements. Other sources of funding are being explored including the writing of more grants at the site level.

Academic Performance Index (API) The Academic Performance Index (API) is a numeric index (or scale) that ranges from a low of 200 to a high of 1000. A school's score on the API is an indicator of a school's performance level. The statewide API performance target for all schools is 800. A school's growth is measured by how well it is moving toward or past that goal. A school's base year API is subtracted from its growth API to determine how much the school improved in a year. The API score summarizes the results of various indicators (i.e., statewide assessments used in calculating the API). Indicators used in calculating the 2011-12 API reporting cycle for high schools included:

Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program

← California Standards Tests (CSTs) ← English-Language Arts, grades nine through eleven

← Mathematics, grades nine through eleven

← History-Social Science, grades ten and eleven

← Science, grades nine through eleven

California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA)

English-language arts and mathematics, grades nine through eleven, based on alternate statewide standards

California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)

← CAHSEE, English-language arts (including a writing assessment) and mathematics for grade ten and grade eleven if the student passed

For the 2011-12 API reporting cycle, the CST ELA received more weight than the other CSTs. The other content area weights in descending order were the CST Math, Social Science, Science, CAHSEE ELA, and CAHSEE Math. Content area weights are based on test weights and the number of valid scores in each content area. They are not the same for all schools.

API Content Area Weights (%) for Santa Maria High School 2011-12 API Reporting Cycle 2011 API Base and 2012 API Growth Area Grades 9-12 CST in ELA 27.6 CST in Math 16.3 CST in Science end of Course 15.9 CST 10th Grade Science 2.9 CST in Social Science 13.8 CAHSEE ELA 11.1 CAHSEE Math 10.3 Total (Students not in these classes score a 2 on 97.9% the test and that is the remaining percentages.)

API Summary Pioneer Valley High School opened in 2004 taking their sophomore class from Santa Maria High School. The feeder schools to Pioneer Valley are classified as higher social economic areas and also lower non-white areas. This changed the demographics at Santa Maria High School. Therefore, the data used in this report usually starts with the 2007- 2008 school year. The charts below show the yearly summaries for the API data beginning with the 2007-2008 school year. SMHS was placed in Program Improvement (PI) in the 2008-2009 school year and for the 2011-2012 is in PI 4. (Retrieved from Data Quest).

Subgroup N of Numerically 2008 2007 2007-2008 Met Target Subgroup in Significant Subgroup Subgroup Subgroup 2008 API in both API API (Base) Growth/Target Years (Growth) SMHS 1621 660 626 34 out 9 Yes Hispanic 1431 Yes 648 615 33 out 9 Yes White 96 No 715 ED 1301 Yes 644 612 32 out 9 Yes EL 1049 Yes 615 590 25 out 11 Yes St. w/ Dis. 141 Yes 467 399 68 out 20 Yes

Subgroup N of Numerically 2009 2008 2008-2009 Met Target Subgroup in Significant Subgroup Subgroup Subgroup 2009 API in both API API (Base) Growth/Target Years (Growth) SMHS 1671 676 660 19 out 7 No PI 1 Hispanic 1497 Yes 666 648 18 out 8 Yes White 65 No ED 1440 Yes 666 645 21 out 8 Yes EL 1144 Yes 653 615 38 out 9 Yes St. w/ Dis. 153 Yes 475 468 7 out 17 No

Subgroup N of Numerically 2010 2009 2009-2010 Met Target Subgroup in Significant Subgroup Subgroup Subgroup 2010 API in both API API (Base) Growth/Target Years (Growth) SMHS 1655 660 675 Down 15 No PI 2 Hispanic 1519 Yes 653 666 Down 13 No White 49 No ED 1459 Yes 653 665 Down 12 No EL 1211 Yes 639 652 Down 13 No St. w/ Dis. 160 Yes 461 468 Down 7 No

Subgroup N of Numerically 2011 2010 2010-2011 Met Target Subgroup in Significant Subgroup Subgroup Subgroup 2011 API in both API API (Base) Growth/Target Years (Growth) SMHS 1595 683 660 22 out 7 No PI 3 Hispanic 1468 Yes 677 653 22 out 7 Yes White 48 No 704 742 ED 1419 Yes 675 654 21 out 7 Yes EL 1228 Yes 672 639 33 out 8 Yes St. w/ Dis. 164 Yes 464 454 10 out 17 No The chart below shows that SMHS has a mostly positive trend in improving the test scores for the school and all the subgroups. It also shows that SMHS have made progress

7 sklein Page 8 5/8/2018 DRAFT in improving the scores of the lowest performing subgroups, the Hispanic, socioeconomically disadvantage (SED), English language learners (EL) and the special education (SpEd) subgroup. The only achievement gap at SMHS for 2010-11 is with the special education subgroup.

The chart below shows Santa Maria High Schools’ PI rankings, school rankings and similar school rankings for the last five years.

SMHS PI, State and Similar School Rankings 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 PI 1 2 3 4 Rank 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 Similar School 8 6 8 8 7 7 7