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Ventura Unified School District 2019-20 School Accountability Report CardPublished January 2021 VENTURA HIGH SCHOOL TWO NORTH CATALINA STREET, VEntURA, CA 93001 (805) 641-5116 CARLOS V. COHEN, PRIncIPAL GRADES 9-12 advanced courses such as AP Physics, AP Bio, AP PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Environmental Sciences and AP Chemistry. Our Board of Education Information Data Science course, developed with ELMA OMAX Dear Families, Staff Members and Community, UCLA, provides our students a 3rd and 4th year math V L Thank you for your interest in learning more about option that combines mathematics, economics, and data MAttHEW ALMARAZ Ventura High School, the home of the Cougars. collection to instruct students on how to determine Established in 1889, Ventura High School is more trends and patterns in order to make decisions at work SABRENA RODRIGUEZ and home. than our fair city’s namesake high school -- it is the AMY (YAMAMOTO) CALLAHAN social, cultural, economic and diverse embodiment of In addition to specific courses that we have developed, our city. Our academic, athletic, artistic and we have also been working closely with our school DR. JERRY DAnnENBERG community action programs are perfect examples of district to provide academic targeted support and our school in action. As you read this School intervention courses in our English Language Arts and Accountability Report Card (SARC), you will find that Math programs as well as Social Emotional Program. Ventura High School is a diverse and inclusive This year we also were able to assign a teacher on District Administration comprehensive high school committed to serving the campus to be an English Language Learner Monitor to DR. ROGER RICE needs of all of our students with excellence, respect support our English learners. We also created the 9th and care. grade Academy- a cohort of twenty five “at promise” SUPERIntENDEnt Though our school was impacted by the global Freshmen that have a common homeroom, math, COVID 19 pandemic, our VHS community worked science, and English teacher team. Both the EL Monitor collaboratively to ensure that educating our students position and Academy small learning community allows DR. GREG BAYLEss safely continued. By working together on a district for higher levels of response and support for our most at wide distance learning committee, administrators, promise students. Unfortunatly, because of the global DIREctOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION pandemic our state’s annual CAASSP assessment was teachers and counselors were able to roll out an INA OLOWICZ online platform to carry on with instruction. To make it cancelled so we will have to see the impact of our efforts G W in 2021. a reality, we distributed Chromebooks to all of our DIREctOR OF ELEMEntARY EDUCATION students, provided wi-fi “Hot spots” for our students In all, by analyzing available metrics at the time of writing that needed it, created Zoom office hours, and also this document, Ventura High School is moving forward made plans to transition to a more robust online boldly. Our school continues to explore ways to engage DR. JEFF DAVIS learning platform in the Fall. To end the school year and prepare our students to enter a global market that and celebrate our seniors, we created our first Live desires and rewards knowledge, diversity, adaptability, AssIstAnt SUPERIntENDEnt Streaming Senior Awards Night and a drive through creativity, compassion, leadership and commitment. We graduation at City Hall where 425 VHS graduates are fortunate to have the families we serve every day HUMAN RESOURCES were recognized in person and online via social and are striving daily to do the best for them. On behalf media and Youtube. of the VHS staff and faculty, I wish you and your family In the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic, we continued the best and a healthy and prosperous 2020 2021 school REBEccA CHANDLER to accomplish our school’s vision and mission, and year. AssIstAnt SUPERIntENDEnt strived to keep evolving our programs to fit our Sincerely, students and community’s needs. We even concluded USINEss ERVICES our WASC self-study in the spring but had to postpone Carlos Cohen B S our WASC visit to the Fall of 2020. Instructionally, this This report contains information that may or year we added two new courses - Integrated Physics District Vision Statement may not have occurred either in person or via and Chemistry (IPC) and Information Data Science In the Ventura Unified School District all students will online platform in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 (IDS) to meet our students’ diverse math and science receive an exemplary and balanced education fostering school years due to the closure of school sites needs. Because of its integrated structure, Integrated a lifelong passion for learning and engagement. We for the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have any Physics and Chemistry, is a foundational course that demand excellence of ourselves because our supportive questions about any particular section of this prepares our diverse student body for graduation. The community has entrusted us with their children. document, please contact your school site course also lays the foundation for students to enter administrator. VENTURA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 255 WEST STANLEY AVENUE, SUITE 100 VENTURA, CALIFORNIA 93001 (805) 641-5000 www.venturausd.org Ventura High School 1 2019-20 School Accountability Report Card District Mission Statement Committees OCAL ONTROL • School Site Council The Ventura Unified School District will educate all L C • English Learner Advisory Council students in safe, healthy, and high performing • Parent Teacher Student Association schools. We will inspire all students to excel ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN • District English Learner Advisory academically, honor the unique qualities and diverse Council backgrounds of all students, build supportive • Superintendent’s Parent Advisory relationships, guide all students to reach their full (LCAP) Council potential, motivate all students to successfully pursue • Technology Committee their chosen life path, and engage all students to As part of the Local Control Funding Formula, school districts are required to develop, adopt, and annually • Booster Clubs (football, aquatics, become responsible and contributing members of basketball, baseball) society. update a three-year Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). School Activities The SARC provides the following information relevant • Back to School Night to the State priority: Basic (Priority 1) • PIQE (Parent Institute for Quality DISTRICT & SCHOOL • Degree to which teachers are appropriated assigned Education) and fully credentialed in the subject area and for the • Student Performances ESCRIPTION pupils they are teaching; • Sports Events D • School facilities are maintained in good repair • Art Shows • Science Clubs Ventura Unified School District The SARC provides the following information relevant • Stonefest Ventura Unified School District is the third largest to the State priority: Pupil Achievement (Priority 4) • Chalk Festival district in the county and located on the California • Statewide assessments (i.e., California Assessment • Summer Fest coastline, 63 miles northwest of Los Angeles. More of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) • Readers Faire than 16,000 students in grades transitional System, which includes the Smarter Balanced • Dances kindergarten through twelve receive a rigorous, Summative Assessments for students in the general • Triple P Parenting standards-based curriculum from dedicated and education population and the California Alternate • Den Ambassadors highly qualified professionals. The district is Assessments (CAAs) for English language arts/ • Learning the Ropes comprised of 17 elementary schools, 4 middle literacy (ELA) and mathematics given in grades • Family Forums schools, and 5 high schools. three through eight and grade eleven. Only eligible students may participate in the administration of the CAAs. CAAs items are aligned with alternative Ventura High School achievement standards, which are linked with the Ventura High School serves students in grades nine Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for students STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT through twelve following a traditional calendar. At the with the most significant cognitive disabilities); and beginning of the 2019-20 school year, 2,074 students • The percentage of students who have successfully were enrolled, including 11.1% in special education, completed courses that satisfy the requirements for Physical Fitness In the spring of each year, Ventura High School is 16.4% qualifying for English Language Learner entrance to the University of California and the required by the state to administer a physical fitness support, 0.6% foster youth, 0.6% homeless, and California State University, or career technical test to all students in ninth grade. The physical fitness 60.1% qualifying for free or reduced price lunch. sequences or programs of student. test measures each student’s ability to complete six The SARC provides the following information relevant fitness tasks in six major areas. Students that either to the State priority: Other Pupil Outcomes (Priority 8) meet or exceed the standards in all six fitness areas • Pupil outcomes in the subject area of physical are considered to be physically fit or in the “healthy education fitness zone.” Comparative results can be found at www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/pf/. The SARC provides the following information relevant to the State priority: Parental Involvement (Priority 3) • Efforts the school district makes to seek
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