Whitney High School is comprised of 1025 students with a 2009-2010 senior class consisting of 170 students. Selection is based on performance on the California Achievement Test and a district administered writing assessment. The district includes 19 elementary schools, 5 middle schools, 3 comprehensive high schools, a university preparatory school, a continuation high school, and an adult school.

           Enrollment in the district is 21,463 K-12 students and approximately 15,000 adult students. Whitney High School’s population is: 0.1% American Indian/Alaskan, 74.9% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 8.7% Filipino, 1.9% African-American, 6.8% Hispanic, and 7.3% Caucasian.

           Whitney High School does not report class rank because each specially admitted student is in the top ranked 10% of ABC Unified and in the 90th percentile.

 

           Whitney offers a comprehensive honors curriculum in English, Social Science, Mathematics, Science and Foreign Language (Spanish, French, and Japanese). Programs are offered in Visual and Performing Arts, and Physical Education.

12 Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered in European History, United States History, English Language & Composition, Calculus BC, Biology, Chemistry, Human Geography, Physics, Spanish, Japanese and French Language and Spanish Literature.

            35 Honors (H) courses are offered in English levels I, II, III, IV, World History/Geography, World History Model United Nations, Political and Cultural World Geography, U.S. History*, Civics, Economics, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II/ Trigonometry, Math Analysis/ Calculus A*, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry*, Chemistry of Living Systems, Physics*, Spanish Level I, II, III*, IV, French I, II, III, IV, V, and VI*, and Japanese I, II, III, IV*, V, and VI. (Courses with the asterisk * are those identified by the UC as honors.)

 

Co-Curricular Activities

            Whitney High School sponsors a broad program of interscholastic sports and co-curricular activities including Student Government, over 30 different school-sponsored special-interest clubs, service organizations, newspaper, yearbook, marching band, drill team, pep units, community involvement, and CIF sports. Community service is a voluntary program.

 

            Grade point averages are computed on a four (4)

            point scale: A= 4, B= 3, C= 2, D= 1, and F = 0. All

            grades are not weighted on transcripts. The grading scale

            is as follows: A= 90-100, B= 80-89, C=70-29, D= 65- 69, and F= 0-64.

 

NATIONAL MERIT

                                                                2009     2010

National Merit Semifinalists                           29        18 

National Merit Finalists                                 29       TBA

National Merit Commended Scholars             46        45

National Hispanic Honorable Scholars             2         1

National Achievement Outstanding Scholar      1       TBA

 

                                                Whitney            National

                                              Mean Score      Mean Score

                Reading                         652                501

                Math                              702                515

                Writing                           667                493

 

2009 ACT TEST

                                                    Whitney         State

                English                          30.7               21.8

                Math                              31.6               22.8

                Reading                          29.9              22.4

                Science                          28.0              21.4

                Composite                      30.2              22.2

 

ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMS – MAY 2009

Subject                                  # of students           % with grade of 3 or higher

Biology                                         41                                95 %

Calculus AB                                  2                               100 %

Calculus BC                                 59                                90 %

Chemistry                                     55                               95 %

Chinese Language *                        6                               100 %

Computer Science A *                     2                                 50%

Computer Science AB *                   2                                 0 %

Economics – Macro *                     13                               62 %

Economics – Micro *                       7                                86 %

English Language                          146                              91 %

English Literature *                         22                               91 %

Environmental Science*                   10                              100 %

European History                            60                               95 %

French Language                            15                               93 %

Govt /Politics – Comp *                    1                                   0%

Govt /Politics - US*                          5                               100 %

Human Geography                         80                                 86 %

Japanese Language                         7                                  86%

Physics B *                                     1                                100%

Physics C – E & M *                        1                               100%

Physics C Mechanics                      52                              94%

Psychology*                                   30                               77 %

Spanish Language                           50                              86 %

Statistics *                                       3                               67%

United States History                      135                              84 %

*No AP class is offered for this exam

 

Not including enrollment in college courses

Number of Courses               10th Grade        11th Grade                   12th Grade

             1                                   89                      25                             65

             2                                    3                      64                              54

             3                                                            46                              7

             4                                                            18

             5                                                             4

             6                                                             1

 

College Summary Data for the Class of 2009  (166 students)

 

Private In State - 13% (23)

1 - Chapman

1- Harvey Mudd

1- Pepperdine University

1 - Stanford

18 - USC

1- American

1- Babson

1- Boston University

1-Cornell

1- Columbia

1- Harvard

3- M.I.T

2- New York University

1- Northwestern

3- Rhode Island School of Design

3- Yale

Military Academies- 2% (3)

University of California- 38% (63)

California State Universities-14% (23)

Community Colleges- 9% (16)

 

CEEB Code: 050526

                 Grade Average                 # of students

                         4.0                                     10

                      3.75-3.99                               38

                      3.50-3.74                               62

                      3.25-3.49                               27

                      3.00-3.24                               16

                      2.75-2.99                                9

                      2.50-2.74                                6

                      0-2.49                                     0

TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO: 1/31.5