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School Description and Mission Statement Introduction to the Community Oroville
High School (OHS) is located in Oroville in the County of Butte. The high school
has 1027 students, grades nine through twelve. OHS is one of four high schools
in the Oroville Union High School District. Established in 1892, our school is
rich in tradition. Many prominent county citizens are OHS alumni. The
district draws students from an area of approximately 663 square miles and from
seven different elementary districts. The principle community within the
district’s boundaries, Oroville, has an immediate shopping population of
approximately 50,000. The primary industries in Oroville are government
(including education), retail trade, service industries, light manufacturing,
agriculture, and lumbering. The median household income in Oroville is $16,614. Opportunities
for higher education are plentiful. Butte Community College offers comprehensive
programs in many fields. California State University, Chico, a four-year college
that offers a full spectrum of curricula, is about a 25-minute drive from
Oroville. Furthermore, Oroville is about three hours from the cultural centers
of San Francisco and the Bay area and just about two hours from Reno, Tahoe, and
Sacramento. Oroville High School Vision & Mission StatementOroville
High School Mission Statement: Oroville High School is a safe, engaging
environment that promotes individual and cooperative efforts through optimum
student-teacher-parent and community effort on campus, with high expectations
for a diverse student population. Opportunities for Parental Involvement
Communication
between school and home is a priority at OHS. Prior to the beginning of school,
parent letters are mailed home to each parent inviting them to become involved
in various decision-making groups on campus, such as: School Site Council,
Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Boosters/Foundation Support Group, district
discipline committee, school board membership and staff interview involvement.
At the Back-To-School Night, the Principal’s presentation includes an
invitation to all parents to get involved in OHS in anyway they feel
comfortable. Our principal explains the variety of opportunities for parents to
contribute to our students' and our schools' success, such as: committees,
extra-curricular activities, clubs, advisory committees, PTA,
project/service-based learning and /or business related mentorship programs.
Teachers also solicit parent participation as needed. Generally, we get about
30% of our parents volunteering in various ways at the school each year. Parents
who request to be involved on campus are encouraged by staff to visit classes,
chaperone field trips, provide transportation, join committees, assist in
athletic programs, form parent or support clubs and attend board meetings. OHS
parents often fill needed coaching positions; currently, two parents serve as
coaches. Parents join students and
staff twice a year for campus beautification days where they donate and plant
shrubs and flowers as well as clean the campus. This
year we opened a new avenue for parent and community involvement with the
implementation of a Leadership Team comprised of parents, students,
administrators, and teachers to serve as the governing body for Oroville High
School. In addition, an Alternative Screening Panel, which includes an
administrator, staff, and parents, meets weekly to make recommendations for
students and appropriate placement in district programs. Parents also had
opportunities to give input on Oroville High School’s ESLRs, through the WASC
focus groups, Leadership Team, and School Site Council.
OHS
has a comprehensive system for communicating with parents and the community. OHS
school newsletters are developed and mailed once every six weeks to parents and
students that include current events and activities taking place at the OHS
campus. The OHS website (http://www.ouhsd.org/ohs/) is used to communicate daily
and weekly bulletin information to parents, students, and faculty.
Several staff members serve as interpreters for parents whose home
language is other than English. Instructional Aide, Mai Vang interprets
information for the Asian students and parents while Spanish Teacher Kevin Simas
translates for the Spanish speaking population.
Student
Enrollment, by Ethnic Group
II.
School Safety and Climate for Learning
OHS
actively promotes a safe, clean, and orderly learning environment and has a
comprehensive disaster and safety plan in place. Based on our recent safety
survey, the majority of students feel safe at Oroville High School. We are
currently beginning a program of ID badges for all students and staff in an
attempt to ensure that only members of our school community are present on our
campus. We have two campus security supervisors, equipped with communication
devices, golf carts, and bicycles for patrol. Involve the leadership team in
school safety issues; this should include communication concerning, and staff
training for, safety and violence incidences, including notification of staff
regarding students with a record of violence that could affect classroom
management. The
school is continually striving for an improved atmosphere. We have a
campus beautification committee that takes care of landscaping improvement.
The Student Body Association assumes responsibility for cleaning the student
break area, and after events. In addition, each class in the homecoming
celebration assumes responsibility for cleaning an area of the school.
Homecoming and Spirit week includes a community service project that is
performed by each of the classes. There are frequent projects that are
integrated into the curriculum, performed by various classes, which improve the
campus. For example, ROP students return from their program in the
afternoon to landscape on campus. Many clubs, such as Friday Night Live,
regularly perform community service activities. Student artwork displayed
in the Library Student Art Gallery, office, and the hall display cases beautify
the school while expressing pride in student work. This
year we are enacting a LINK program that assimilates freshmen into the school
community through mentoring and advanced orientation, conducted by Junior and
Senior student volunteers. It helps to ease new student entry into high
school and limit alienation and fear of the secondary school environment. The
school has programs to avert violence; students are identified and referred to
Drug & Alcohol counseling, Anger Management class, and Conflict Management
Class. We have various campus programs that encourage students to
participate in healthy, safe activities. Friday Night Live, Every 15
Minutes, Unity Day, Sober Graduation, and an extensive extracurricular activity
program contribute to a safe student community. We have school assemblies
that incorporate motivational speakers and programs addressing student emotional
issues. There
is a progressive discipline plan in place for ensuring attendance. It
includes positive intervention, counseling, home visits, and family services
referrals. The school works actively to involve the juvenile justice
program in habitual attendance problems. We have an in-school suspension
program and are currently developing a Saturday school disciplinary program. We
believe that our school has benefited from the state and federally funded
class-size reduction programs and that these programs have contributed to safer
classroom environments. The
existing system used to notify teachers of a student's physical or learning
disability, critical medical history, or history of violence toward other
students or adults is cumbersome and does not provide timely information.
Student records are flagged, but it is not easy for teachers to acquire the
detailed information that caused the record to be flagged in the first place. It
would be of benefit to both the student and the teachers to facilitate teacher
access to sensitive student information that could affect classroom management. Our
staff shares high expectations for all OHS students and a personal commitment to
improving our school. The teachers collaborate on school improvement issues as a
whole as well as in their individual departments. The II/USP process is
helping the entire staff to cohesively focus on school improvement; quarterly
exams, standards essays, and assessment pieces help to create a culture of high
expectations, especially in the English and Math departments. Other departments
will review and align their curriculum as it comes up for their scheduled
review. In addition, our current WASC self study has united all stakeholders in
a collaborative effort to help identify and plan programs and processes to
improve student learning. Since fall 2001, time and resources have been set
aside monthly for the Leadership Team (reps. from all stakeholders) and the
entire staff to create a school wide action plan based on school data we
gathered and analyzed.
Academic Programs for StudentsOHS
offers many academic support services and activities to help our diverse student
population meet the challenges of a rigorous curriculum and accomplish our ESLRs.
Such program include: •
Advanced Placement and Honors courses •
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) •
Special Education (RSP & SD) •
English Language Learners •
Link Crew •
Tutoring Programs OHS
instructional staff plays a major role in connecting students to appropriate
academic support services to enhance classroom learning. A majority of the
teachers assess their students’ learning needs informally or formally at the
beginning of the school year as well as formatively throughout the school year.
They use these assessments to modify their instruction and/or instructional
strategies to maximize student learning throughout the course and to recommend
tutoring if necessary. Co-Curricular ActivitiesAt OHS approximately 8 out of 10 students are involved in school clubs, athletics, and extra-curricular school activities. A full range of sports programs are offered with certified coaching staff. Athletes are expected to maintain appropriate grade point averages and are closely monitored by coaching staff. In addition to typical high school sports programs, off campus sporting activities are also recognized, such as the ski/snowboarding club. An active Associated Student Body (ASB), advised by a certificated teacher and staffed with 14 OHS students oversees the operation of 30 clubs on campus. These clubs service a wide variety of social and school interests to serve our diverse student population and also foster community involvement and service. Examples of such clubs are Key Club, Environmental Club, Friday Night Live, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Black Student Union, Asian Club, International Club, Girls and Boys Block "O", Students Taking A New Direction (STAND), Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA), Fashion Club, Spirit Squads, Link Crew, FHA-HERO club, grade-level clubs, Catering Club, and the LP/Oroville Band. Several of these clubs are tied with state and national organizations.Several
activities are also supported within the curriculum, such as the school
newspaper, yearbook, and the OHS web site, all of which are produced and advised
during scheduled designated courses. The school newspaper, Eye of the Tiger, is
published once a month and provides students with information about staff,
classes, programs, activities of students and clubs, counseling information,
student opinion, events, entertainment and sports. Suspensions and
Expulsions
School Facilities Oroville
High School has been updating the training of our campus custodians. With old
buildings, up-keep is a challenge however as a result of a recent bond passage
and several buildings on campus qualifying for modernization improvements to
current facilities will occur this year. This past year the floors in the S-Wing
classrooms were replaced and three additional relocatables were added to the
campus to allow for future growth. A monthly maintenance check for safety and
repairs is reported. The school has a safety committee that meets to discuss
safety hazards, promote accident prevention and provide safety awareness and
training.
CST - Subgroups - Mathematics
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