Sehome High School Profile 2020/21
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https://sehome.bellinghamschools.org/ Sehome High School Profile 2020/21 grades 9-12, four middle schools March 2020. Student have not had serving grades 6-8 and fourteen access to SAT/ACT testing. elementary schools with grades K-5 with a total student population of Grading Scale: over 11,000. A = 4.0 points B = 3.0 points School C = 2.0 points Sehome High School is a four-year D = 1.0 points Sehome High School comprehensive high school F = 0.0 points enrolling over 1200 students in 2700 Bill McDonald Pkwy grades 9-12. The school opened Grades not calculated in GPA: Bellingham, WA. 98225 in 1966 and has maintained and P=Pass encouraged a rich tradition of I=Incomplete CEEB code number: academic excellence. Over half of NC=Withdrew without penalty 480-083 the faculty holds master’s degrees; W= Withdrew without penalty many are leaders in their field and Main Office: (360) 676-6481 have received local, state, and Sehome uses a 4.0 unweighted Counseling Office: national honors. 25 teachers are system. Each semester course with a (360) 676-6470 x 5204 National Board Certified. passing grade (A through D) earns .5 credit. Grades for courses taken at PRINCIPAL: Accreditation college level (ex. Running Start) Sonia Cole Sehome is accredited through the receive equivalent high school credit Northwest Association of Schools according to the following formula: COUNSELORS: and Colleges and holds membership 3 college quarter credits = .6 credit Amy Hjelt Hana Schutz in the Pacific Northwest Association 4 college quarter credits = .8 credit Jeff Smith John VanderMolen for College Admission Counseling 5 college quarter credits = 1.0 credit. (PNACAC). SUPERINTENDENT: Rank Dr. Greg Baker Athletics/Activities School policy eliminated class rank Sehome offers a full range of beginning with the Class of 2021. Community extracurricular activities. Athletic Bellingham, Washington is a coastal competition is within the Northwest COVID Grading: city located in the northwest corner 2A League. Sehome has been For spring semester 2020, of the state, approximately halfway awarded the WIAA 2A Scholastic Bellingham Public Schools between Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Cup for the last 6 years in a row temporarily suspended traditional Bellingham is bordered on the west A-F grade marks due to the COVID- by the Puget Sound and on the east Academics: 19 emergency school closure. High by the foothills of Mt. Baker and the Sehome’s academic program is school courses earned marks of Snoqualmie National Forest. Once a organized around an eight-period either “A” or “Incomplete.” congregate of three small block schedule. Students take 4 Bellingham Public Schools has communities drawing sustenance classes per day (80 minutes each), modified its grading practices for from forestry, fishing, and food plus a 30-minute Advisory class. the 2020-21 school year. processing, Bellingham has a Each block class meets every other Student can earn an A, B, C, D, NC, or population of about 90,000. day. I. NC (No Credit) is reserved for students making little to no Bellingham has three schools of COVID Update: Classes are progress to complete course work. I higher education: Western currently remote. Students take 4 (Incompletes) is reserved for Washington University, Whatcom classes for a 22-day rotation students who attempted to Community College and Bellingham (periods 1-4), then take periods 5-8 complete a course. There will be no Technical College. for 22 days. Rotation continues F’s issued for the 2020-21 school throughout the school year. The year. Bellingham Public Schools schedule includes synchronous and The Bellingham School District asynchronous instruction. Regional includes four high schools, including test centers have been closed since one alternative high school, serving https://sehome.bellinghamschools.org/ Sehome High School Profile 2020/21 2020-2021 graduation Running Start This program allows Carleton College requirements include: junior/senior students to enroll in Chapman University (30 credits total) college classes and earn both high Colorado State University 4.0 credits English school and college credit. Dartmouth University 3.0 credits Mathematics Georgetown University 3.0 credits Lab Science College in the High School: Georgia State University 3.0 credits Social Studies Neuroscience of Addiction Grand Canyon University 1.5 credits Physical Education Psychology Howard University 0.5 credit Health French 3, 4 Johns Hopkins University 1.5 credit Career and Technical Spanish 4 Lewis and Clark College Education AP World History Macalester College 1.0 credit Visual/Performing Arts Pre-Calculus Middlebury College 2 credits World Language Montana State University 9.5 credits of electives. CTE Dual Credit: This WA State Mount Holyoke College program provides opportunities to Northern Arizona University Additional requirements include the enroll in high school courses that Oklahoma City University completion of a High School and are articulated with community or Oklahoma State University Beyond Plan and a Graduation technical college programs to earn Oregon State University Pathway. Students choose and both high school and college credit. Pomona College complete a graduation pathway that Portland State University aligns with their High School and Class of 2020: St. John’s College Beyond Plan and post-high school 250 Graduating Seniors Santa Barbara City College goals. Passing state tests is one Savannah College of Art & Design pathway to graduation. Percentage to Attend Scripps College 11% 2-year institution Southern Oregon University The Curriculum Stanford University 57% 4-year institution Sehome provides four rigorous dual The University of Portland credit opportunities for students to (29% Out of State; 28% In-State) Tulane University earn college credit while in high University of Arizona school. These include: Advanced University of British Columbia Colleges Attended: Placement (AP), College in the High University of California; Davis In State: School, Running Start and CTE Dual University of California; Los Angeles Bellingham Technical College Credit. University of California; San Diego Central Washington University University of California; Santa Digipen Institue of Technology AP Courses Offered: Barbara Eastern Washington University English Language University of Colorado at Boulder Gonzaga University English Literature University of Denver Lower Columbia College Calculus AB and BC University of Hawaii-Hilo Seattle University Statistics University of Hawaii-Manoa Skagit Valley College Biology University of Michigan St. Martin’s University Chemistry University of Oregon University of Washington Environmental Science University of Portland University of Washington- Bothell Physics 1 and 2 University of San Francisco Washington State American Government University of Southern California University Human Geography University of South Florida Western Washington University US History University of Victoria Whatcom Community College European History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Whitman College Micro and Macro Economic State University Whitworth University Psychology Whitman College French Whittier College Out of State: German Whitworth University Arizona State University Spanish Willamette University Boise State University Computer Science Wright State College California Polytechnic State University- San Luis Obispo .