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Cate Profile Benjamin D. Williams IV Headmaster Tamar Adegbile Director of College Counseling [email protected] CATE SCHOOL Margot Dorion 2016–2017 Assoc. Dir. of College Counseling [email protected] Cate School, founded in 1910, is a grade 9-12 coeducational boarding school on California’s Central Coast. A demanding and engaging academic program, a diverse student body, and a residential emphasis make Cate a distinctive community in which talented students continue their intellectual, moral, physical, and social growth. Cate is committed to offering an educational experience with lifelong meaning and profound value for each student. Mission: Through commitment, scholarship, companionship, and service, each member of the Cate community contributes to what our founder called “... the spirit of this place ... all compounded of beauty and virtue, quiet study, vigorous play, and hard work.” School Information Uniquely Cate • 71% of the faculty have advanced degrees Cate is committed to fostering a CULTURE OF INQUIRY • Student-faculty ratio is 5:1; average class size is 12 that is central to our work in the classroom and animates our • Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and community discussions. Each school year is organized around a Colleges school-wide question and common read that gives all students and teachers an opportunity for inquiry across the academic disciplines. Student Information Senior Inquiry Projects are presented and celebrated at Inquiry Day • Enrollment: 280 (230 boarders/50 day) in the spring. Convocation–a weekly series of speakers, performers, • Class of 2017: 70 students and special guests–adds breadth and outside voices. • Boarding students from abroad: 16% • Students of color: 45% By senior year, faculty rely on the LEADERSHIP skills of each • Financial aid: $3,500,000 allocated to 33% of students Cate student to accomplish the School’s purpose, program, and • Eighteen foreign nations: Afghanistan, Brazil, China, operations. Seniors hold positions with unusually high leadership Croatia, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, expectations that support every facet of campus life. Prominent Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, roles include prefect, teaching assistant, peer tutors, Tuesday Talk South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Coordinator, CateNet Masters, Public Service Program heads, and United Kingdom, Vietnam school president and vice president. • Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, In keeping with the Cate motto, Servons, SERVICE is a Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, fundamental way of life both on and off campus. Service hours Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, are not required or logged, yet each week school vans ferry Cate Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North students to local food banks and shelters for Public Service Night. Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Cate also connects to outside communities through Public Service Washington, Wyoming Days, holiday donation drives, and after-school tutoring at local elementary schools. Since the 1970s, Cate students have traveled ACT Mid 50% Mean Former SAT Mid 50% Mean to Mexicali for Los Niños Program service learning immersion Composite 28-33 30.3 Critical Reading 640-740 680 trips, working shoulder to shoulder with local residents on building projects that enhance community centers and neighborhoods. Math 660-770 704 SAT Subject Tests Mean Servons is also key to Cate’s membership in ROUND SQUARE, Writing 670-750 714 Biology-M 703 a global network of 160 high schools in 40 countries with six Chemistry 684 shared ideals: internationalism, democracy, environmentalism, Redesigned SAT Mid 50% Mean adventure, leadership, and service. Cate participates in international English Literature 654 Reading/Writing 625-695 660 conferences, service projects, and student exchanges in nations Math II 704 worldwide including Australia, India, Jordan, Peru, South Africa, Mathematics 600-700 650 Physics 720 and Switzerland. (www.roundsquare.org) Spanish 697 Writing 31-35 32 Cate’s OUTDOOR PROGRAM, rooted in the staggering natural National Merit Scholarship Program beauty of the California wilderness, is a constant reminder that we are part of a world much bigger than ourselves. Daily opportunities Semifinalists: 3(SI: 221) Commended Scholars: 10 to surf, hike, bike, rock climb, kayak, paddle board, and camp National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars: 3 abound. Outings Week, a rigorous backcountry expedition, kicks off each school year and is anchored by seniors acting as trip Advanced Placement Exams leaders. Grade-level trips progress from Sequoia National Forest to Advanced courses encompass and go beyond the AP Yosemite National Park to the Kern River Valley and then to the curriculum. Members of the class of 2017 have taken 116 AP Channel Islands. Exams in 16 subjects: 87% scored a 3 or higher. 1960 Cate Mesa Road • Post Office Box 5005 • Carpinteria, CA 93014-5005 • Tel: 805-684-4127 • Fax: 805-684-9560 • www.cate.org Transcript and School Report Class of 2017 GPA Distribution Trimester System: Terms end in November, March, and June; Senior year grade reports for first trimester are automatically submitted to colleges; grade reports for second trimester are submitted upon request Final Grade: Transitioned to a final course grade in 2014-15 Typical Course Load: 5 academic courses per trimester; in addition Cate requires a full-year Arts course in grade 9 and 10 and a full-year in grade 11 or 12 Advanced Curriculum: Cate does not offer AP courses; Advanced courses are designed for students who have demonstrated sustained interest and success in the discipline and the advanced skills necessary for higher order thinking, independent research, and mastery of essential knowledge Grade Point Average: Cate does not rank; GPA is cumulative for grades 10 and higher and comprised of Cate courses and Cate approved program courses only; Weighting is an additional 1.0 for all Advanced courses and 0.5 for upper level Honors courses School Policy: Faculty do not report disciplinary actions taken; Students are required to report any incidents that result in separation from Cate Most Demanding Courses English Arts Foreign Languages Advanced English 11 Advanced Art History Advanced Chinese: Chinese Cinema Advanced English 12 (trimester 1 only) Advanced Art (A and AB) Advanced Chinese: The Chinese Idiom Advanced Studio Art Advanced Chinese: Literature Mathematics Advanced Ceramics Advanced French: Language Studies Advanced Calculus 1 (AB) Advanced Choral Music: Camerata Advanced French: Literature Studies Advanced Calculus 2 (BC) Advanced Photography Japanese 4 Advanced Computer Science Advanced Spanish: Language Studies Advanced Multivariable Calculus, Statistics, Science Advanced Spanish: Literature Studies and Linear Algebra Advanced Biology Advanced Spanish: Hispanic Cinema Advanced Statistics Advanced Chemistry Advanced Spanish: Magical Realism Advanced Global Systems Advanced Spanish: Master Works of History Advanced Mechanics with Calculus Hispanic Literature Advanced U.S. History Advanced Molecular Genetics Advanced History: Modern Presidency Advanced Physics: Mechanics Culture of Inquiry Advanced History: Comparative Revolutions Advanced Physics: Astrophysics Directed Studies Advanced History: Anthropological Perspectives Advanced Physics: Electronics Senior Inquiry Project Advanced History: Modern Middle East College Enrollment 2012-2016 American University 1 Emmanuel College 1 Pomona College 2 University of Denver 1 Babson College 1 Emory University 5 Princeton University 2 University of Edinburgh 2 Bard College 3 Endicott College 1 Purdue University 2 University of Miami 2 Barnard College 12 Franklin & Marshall College 1 Reed College 2 University of Michigan 4 Bennington College 1 George Washington University 2 Rhode Island School of Design 1 University of North Carolina Bentley University 1 Georgetown University 10 Santa Barbara City College 3 at Chapel Hill 1 Boston College 2 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 Santa Clara University 7 University of Oregon 1 Boston University 4 Hamilton College 5 Sarah Lawrence College 3 University of Pennsylvania 13 Bowdoin College 6 Harvard University 3 Scripps College 1 University of Puget Sound 1 Brown University 3 Haverford College 3 Simmons College 1 University of Richmond 3 Bucknell University 1 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1 Skidmore College 2 University of San Diego 1 California Maritime Academy 1 Howard University 1 Southern Methodist University 4 University of San Francisco 1 Cal. Polytechnic State University 5 Johns Hopkins University 6 Stanford University 14 University of Southern California 17 Carnegie Mellon University 2 Kenyon College 2 Swarthmore College 3 USC School of Cinematic Arts 2 Case Western Reserve University 1 King’s College London 1 Syracuse University 1 University of St Andrews 6 Chapman University 1 Lehigh University 1 Trinity College 2 University of the Pacific 2 Claremont McKenna College 6 Lewis & Clark College 1 Trinity University 3 University of Texas, Austin 1 Colby College 3 Macalester College 3 Tufts University 4 University of Texas, San Antonio 1 Colgate University 2 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 1 Tulane University 3 University of Virginia 5 College of Charleston 1 McGill University 1 United States Military Academy 1 University of Washington 1 Colorado College 10 Middlebury College 4 University of California Vanderbilt
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