Summit Preparatory Charter High School

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Summit Preparatory Charter High School

890 Broadway Street Redwood City, California, USA
Information
Principal	Todd Dickson
Director	Diane Tavenner
Enrollment	c. 400
Faculty	33
Type	College Preparatory Public Charter
Grades	9–12
Campus	Suburban
Motto	To prepare a diverse student population for college and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society
Mascot	Husky
Color(s)	Blue, White
Established	2003
Homepage	http://summitprep.net

Summit Preparatory Charter High School, part of the Sequoia Union High School District is a college preparatory and charter high school. Summit Preparatory Charter High School replaced Summit Preparatory High School (part of the Summerville Union High School District in Tuolumne County) which closed on Friday, June 14, 2006 when the Sequoia Union High School District refused to renew their charter.

During the summer of 2007, Summit moved to a new campus previously occupied by High Tech High Bayshore.

Summit is the home of the Summit Huskies and is known for its excellent teachers and curriculum. Summit was founded in 2003 and since then has had 1 graduating class of 2007 and soon to be the second at the end of the month. Summit has received many nobel awards such as being in the top 50 of high schools in the state and is the first school in San Mateo County to receive a 10 out of 10 ranking on the Academic Performance Index^[1].

Summit is located at 890 Broadway St. Redwood City CA, 94063. At present it has about 400 Students and allows 100 students per year. The class size is about 25 students to one teacher. Unlike many typical schools where you have an elective for one period a day, Summit groups it and has 2 full months of that elective. They call it "Intersession" and is a big part of what defines Summit. Intersession is for one month in January and the second in May to June.

Summit's main goal is to have everyone try their hardest and to prepare everyone for college. To help with this, Summit has implement many ideas to further build on this. One thing is the small class size, with only 100 students and 25 per class, the teachers are able to know all the students and know how to help them out. The next is mentor time. Every day for the last 10 minutes, students see their mentor. For all four years the students are at Summit, they get the same mentor and students. This allows students to be more open to their mentor and tell them whats going on with their lives to better help them succeed. The last two are MARS "Mandatory Academic Revision Session" and MASH "Mandatory After-school Study Hall" both of these are ways to help the student out if they are not doing as well as they should. MASH is received if a student does not complete a homework assignment and that student then must spend 30 minutes after school to complete the homework assignment. This allows the student to catch up and to keep their grade up. MARS is received if A) the student receives a failing grade on an mastery assignment or B) when a student receives a failing grade in a subject. MARS helps the student catch up on his/her grade in order to pass the grade. MARS takes place during intersection and the goal is to revise anything to receive full credit.