La Sierra High School

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La Sierra High School

Motto "La Sierra High forever, our hearts shall be your home."
Established 1969
Type Public
Principal Doctor Robert Cunard
Location Riverside, California, United States
Mascot Eagle
Website La Sierra High

La Sierra High School, located in Riverside, California, is a public high school in the Alvord Unified School District that was founded on August 28, 1969. The school underwent a change in principals when Doctor Don Austin took up the position of principal at Laguna Beach High School for the 2005-2006 school year. Doctor Austin was replaced by Doctor Robert Cunard.

The two main feeder schools for La Sierra High are Arizona Intermediate and Villegas Intermediate schools. La Sierra's rival is Norte Vista High School, the other public high school in Alvord Unified.

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[edit] Recent events

La Sierra has recently become one of the highest scoring campuses in the Inland Empire as ranked by the annual achievement tests given by the State of California. In 2005, La Sierra High was awarded a 6-year clear accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, making La Sierra High the only comprehensive high school in the entire Inland Empire to earn this distinction.

As of the 2006-2007 school year, approximately 3,190 students attend La Sierra High. Many of the 2005-2006 valedictorians have joined some of the nation's top universities, e.g. University of California Berkeley, and the University of California Los Angeles.[citation needed]

[edit] Academics and Test Scores

[edit] Academics

La Sierra offers 15 AP Courses in Art Portfolio, Biology, Calculus (AB and BC), Chemistry, Economics, Environmental Science, English, European History, Government, Spanish Language, Statistics, U.S. History, Language, and Literature.

[edit] Test Scores

[edit] API

As of 2005, La Sierra High School has increased its API to 715 from the 2004 base score of 679. It was a considerable 36 point growth rate. Although it met the schoolwide growth target, it did not meet the state subgroup growth targets. To encourage schools to improve achievement for all students, the state computes APIs and sets improvement targets for the different student subgroups at the school. See below:

2005 API Base by Subgroup
Subgroup API Base
All Students 715
African-American 690
Asian 791
Hispanic 676
White/Caucasian 761
Socioeconomically
disadvantaged		 664
English Learners 648
Special Education 487

[edit] CST Results

As of 2005, La Sierra's students met or exceeded the state expectations on the California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) as listed below: [1]

Subject Freshmen Pass rate (%) Sophomore Pass rate (%) Junior Pass rate (%)
Algebra 1 4 2 3
Algebra 2 80 24 6
Biology / Life Sciences 20 14 12
Chemistry -- 22 12
Earth Sciences 5 20 19
English 39 32 30
Geometry 46 10 6
World History -- 29 --
U.S. History -- -- 39

[edit] CAHSEE Results

All data below reflects the percentage of sophomore, junior, and senior students who passed the CAHSEE sections.

ELA [2]
Year Percent Passed
2002 65
2003 67
2004 71
2005 65
2006 61
Mathematics[2]
Year Percent Passed
2002 24
2003 40
2004 70
2005 67
2006 91












[edit] Activities and Clubs

Some of the notable clubs on campus include:

  • ASB (Associated Student Body)
  • Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
  • Band Club
  • Black Student Union
  • California Scholarship Federation (CSF)
  • Cheer Club
  • Chess Club
  • College Club
  • Drama Club
  • Economics Club
  • Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
  • Future Farmers of America
  • French Club
  • Health Organization Students of America
  • Latinos Working Together
  • Music Industry Club
  • Pingpong Club
  • Renaissance Club
  • Spanish Club
  • Sports Aholics with Zach and Shayne
  • Mock Trial
  • Renaissance Club
  • Screamin' Eagles Marching Band
  • Sunrise (Yearbook)
  • The Eagle's Quill (Student newspaper)
  • The Call (Christian Club)

[edit] Athletics

La Sierra High School is a member of the Ivy League, competing with Riverside Poly, North, King, Arlington, and Canyon Springs High Schools. La Sierra High School is committed to the idea of producing 'student-athletes' manifested by their varsity head coaching staff. La Sierra competes in 20 varsity sports, while maintaining a full junior varsity and freshmen schedule. The 2005-2006 season included several league championships for LSHS. The track team extended the varsity win streak to over 20 in a row, while the football team won the first league championship in many years. However, as of 2006-2007, their football team has lost all but a single match, and will not be proceeding to the CIF Playoffs.

Fall Sports:

  • Cross Country (Boys and Girls)
  • Golf (Girls)
  • Football (Boys)
  • Tennis (Girls)
  • Volleyball (Girls)
  • Water Polo (Boys)

Winter Sports:

  • Basketball (Boys)
  • Basketball (Girls)
  • Soccer (Boys)
  • Soccer (Girls)
  • Water Polo (Girls)
  • Wrestling

Spring Sports:

  • Baseball (Boys)
  • Golf (Boys)
  • Softball (Girls)
  • Swimming (Boys and Girls)
  • Tennis (Boys)
  • Track & Field (Boys and Girls)
  • Volleyball (Boys)

[edit] Teachers

Category Total # of Teachers [3]
La Sierra 120
District 899
County 18,164
State 307,864
Type of Credential Teachers (State) Teachers (LSHS)
Full 307,864 (94.2%) 114 (95.0%)
University Intern 7,668 (2.5%) 3 (2.5%)
District Intern 2,690 (0.9%) 2 (1.7%)
Pre-Intern 1,150 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%)
Emergency 9,922 (3.2%) 1 (0.8%)
Waiver 1,298 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%)



According to the CA Department of Education website, the teachers at La Sierra have 11.1 average teaching experience, and have spent an average of 10 years teaching in the Alvord Unified School District (as of 2005-2006 school year). The average class size is ~ 30.




[edit] Students

Ethnicity LSHS (% of population) State (% of population)
African American, not Hispanic 8 8
American Indian or Alaska Native <1 <1
Asian 6 8
Filipino 3 3
Hispanic or Latino 50 47
Multiple or No Response <1 2
Pacific Islander <1 <1
White, not Hispanic 32 31















Language La Sierra High State
Arabic <1% <1%
Filipino (Pilipino or Tagalog) 2% 1%
Hindi <1% <1%
Khmer (Cambodian) <1% <1%
Lao <1% <1%
Mandarin (Puntonghua) <1% <1%
Persian <1% <1%
Portuguese 1% <1%
Rumanian 1% <1%
Russian <1% <1%
Samoan <1% <1%
Spanish 89% 85%
Thai <1% <1%
Vietnamese 2% 2%
All other non-English
languages		 <1% <1%


























[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Contact

Address:
4145 La Sierra Avenue
Riverside, California 92505
Phone:
(951) 351-9235
Fax:
(951) 351-9307

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program [1]. Accessed on 02 November, 2006.
  2. ^ a b California High School Exit Examination Cahsee Results. Accessed on 02 November, 2006.
  3. ^ California Department of Education website. CDE website. Accessed on 02 November, 2006.

[edit] External links

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