La Sierra High School

Last updated
La Sierra High School
La Sierra High School Logo.png
Address
La Sierra High School
4145 La Sierra Avenue

,
92505

United States
Coordinates 33°54′33″N117°28′45″W / 33.90927°N 117.47919°W / 33.90927; -117.47919 Coordinates: 33°54′33″N117°28′45″W / 33.90927°N 117.47919°W / 33.90927; -117.47919
Information
Type Public
Motto"Soaring high with pride"
Established1969
PrincipalTania Cabeza
Staff78.82 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,723 (2018-19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio21.86 [1]
Color(s)Navy blue and white   
Mascot Eagle
Website La Sierra High

La Sierra High School, located in Riverside, California, United States, is a public high school in the Alvord Unified School District that was founded on August 28, 1969. Tania Cabeza is the principal. [2] La Sierra High School's official school colors are navy blue and white. Red is the accent color and has been since the school opened.

Contents

The two main feeder schools for La Sierra High are Arizona and Villegas intermediate schools. La Sierra's rivals are Norte Vista and Hillcrest, the other public high schools in Alvord Unified.

Recent events

In 2005, La Sierra High School was awarded a 6-year clear accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, making it the first comprehensive high school in the entire Inland Empire to earn this distinction.

In the 2007–2008 school year, approximately 3,200 students attended La Sierra High.

Hillcrest High School opened in fall 2012 to relieve crowding at La Sierra.

Academics and test scores

Test scores

API

In 2005, La Sierra High School increased its API (Academic Performance Index (California public schools)) to 715 from the 2004 base score of 679. Although it met the school-wide 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.

2005 API base by subgroup
SubgroupAPI base
All students715
African-American690
Asian791
Hispanic676
White/Caucasian761
Socioeconomically
disadvantaged
664
English learners648
Special education487

CST results

In 2005, La Sierra's students met or exceeded the state expectations on the California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) as listed below: [3]

SubjectFreshmen pass rate (%)Sophomore pass rate (%)Junior pass rate (%)
Algebra 1423
Algebra 280246
Biology / Life sciences201412
Chemistry--2212
Earth sciences52019
English393230
Geometry46106
World history--29--
U.S. history----39

CAHSEE results

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

ELA [4]
YearPercent passed
200265
200367
200471
200565
200661
Mathematics [4]
YearPercent passed
200224
200340
200470
200567
200691

Athletics

La Sierra is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) River Valley League along with Hillcrest, Jurupa Valley, Norte Vista, Patriot and Ramona high schools. They won the boys' state team track title in June 2009 which was the first boys' team track title in Riverside County history.

Teachers

CategoryTotal # of teachers [5]
La Sierra120
District899
County18,164
State307,864
Type of credentialTeachers (state)Teachers (LSHS)
Full307,864 (94.2%)114 (95.0%)
University intern7,668 (2.5%)3 (2.5%)
District intern2,690 (0.9%)2 (1.7%)
Pre-intern1,150 (0.4%)0 (0.0%)
Emergency9,922 (3.2%)1 (0.8%)
Waiver1,298 (0.4%)0 (0.0%)

According to the California Department of Education, in the 2005–2006 school year, teachers at La Sierra had 11.1 years average teaching experience and had spent an average of 10 years teaching in the Alvord Unified School District. The average class size was ~ 34.

Notable alumni

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Home Gardens, California</span> Census-designated place in California, United States

Home Gardens is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. It is within the City of Corona's sphere of influence. The population was 11,203 at the 2020 census, down from 11,507 at the 2010 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Riverside, California</span> City in Riverside County, California, United States

Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is located about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside is the 61st-most-populous city in the United States and 12th-most-populous city in California. As of the 2020 census, Riverside had a population of 314,998. Along with San Bernardino, Riverside is a principal city in the 13th-largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States; the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA ranks in size just below San Francisco and above Detroit in population.

The Academic Performance Index (API) was a measurement of academic performance and progress of individual schools in California, United States. The API was one of the main components of the Public Schools Accountability Act passed by the California State Legislature in 1999. It was last updated for the 2012–2013 school year, an on March 15, 2017, the California State Board of Education and the California Department of Education launched a new accountability system to replace the Academic Performance Index to better measure California's education goals. The replacement reporting interface is the California School Dashboard.

The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) is a public school district that serves Placentia, Yorba Linda, and parts of Anaheim, Brea, and Fullerton located in northeast Orange County, California and is rapidly developing county territory that reaches the Riverside County line. The school district covers 45 square miles (120 km2) and employs 2,000 people. Its student enrollment is approximately 24,000, and the District's 34 school sites include 20 elementary schools, 5 middle schools, 1 K-8 school, 4 comprehensive high schools, 1 special education school, 1 continuation high school, 1 TK-12 home school, and 1 K-12 online school, alongside 5 state preschools. The Superintendent is Dr. James Elsasser, Ed.D., and the Board of Education includes Carrie Buck, Marilyn Anderson, Leandra Blades, Shawn Youngblood, and Karin Freeman. Twenty-five schools have been designated California Distinguished Schools, eight have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools, seventeen have been honored as California Gold Ribbon Schools, one has earned the title of California Model Continuation High School, and another has received California's Exemplary Independent Study recognition. The District has also been placed on the College Board’s AP District Honor Roll three times since the program's inception in 2011. The high schools featured are consistently named to "America's Best High Schools" rankings issued by Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and other news organizations.

Lake Elsinore Unified School District is a public school district located in Lake Elsinore, California, USA. It was formed on July 1, 1989, when the Elsinore Union High School District merged with the Lake Elsinore School District (elementary). The Lake Elsinore Unified School District is the 8th largest school district in Riverside County and encompasses an area of 131.78 square miles.

The California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) was an examination created by the California Department of Education, that was previously mandated to administer in high schools statewide in order to graduate. The examination was suspended in 2015, when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill undoing the decade old requirement. It was originally created by the California Department of Education to improve the academic performance of California high school students, and especially of high school graduates, in the areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. In addition to other graduation requirements, public school students needed to pass the exam before they could receive a high school diploma.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camino Nuevo Charter Academy</span> Public, charter school

Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is a group of charter schools serving the Westlake/MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. In 2003 Camino Nuevo Charter Academy was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence gold medal. The school was founded by Philip Lance, an activist Episcopalian priest, community organizer, and psychologist.

Norte Vista High School is a high school in Riverside, California, part of the Alvord Unified School District, and the home of the Norte Vista Braves.

Roseville Joint Union High School District is a California school district that consists of 6 comprehensive high schools, 1 independent study high school, 1 continuation high school and an adult school. The district covers the city of Roseville and the unincorporated community of Granite Bay, two suburbs of Sacramento that are located in Placer County, and the eastern side of the suburb of Antelope in northern Sacramento County.

Alvord Unified School District (AUSD) is a school district headquartered in Riverside, California, United States.

The Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) serves as an intermediary between the California Department of Education and local school districts. It provides a wide range of educational and administrative services to the 23 school districts and more than 423,000 students in Riverside County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Centennial High School (Compton, California)</span> Public high school in Compton, California

Centennial High School is a public high school in Compton, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Riverside County, California</span> County in southern portion of California, United States

Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States. The name was derived from the city of Riverside, which is the county seat.

Jurupa Unified School District is grade K-12 school district in Riverside County, California. It has an enrollment of approximately 20,500 students. The geographic location of the Jurupa area is the upper western corner of Riverside County, California, north and west of the Santa Ana River and south of the San Bernardino-Riverside County line. The Superintendent is Elliott Duchon.

Hillcrest High School is a public high school in Riverside, California, United States. Students from Ysmael Villegas Middle School, Arizona Middle School and transfers attend Hillcrest.

Vista del Lago High School is located in Moreno Valley, California. It is one of four comprehensive high schools in the Moreno Valley Unified School District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy</span> School in Los Angeles, California, United States

East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy (ELARA) Renaissance; officially East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School No. 2, unofficially East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy, School of Urban Planning and Public Policy, is a small public, coeducational, pilot secondary school of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) located in East Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2010 as an attempt to relieve student overcrowding at James A. Garfield High School, ELARA is one of five small schools established on the Esteban E. Torres High School campus, alongside East Los Angeles Performing Arts Magnet, Humanitas Academy of Arts and Technology (HAAT), Social Justice Leadership Academy (SJLA), and Engineering and Technology Academy (ETA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">River Valley League</span>

The River Valley League is a high school athletic league in California, United States, that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Member schools are located in Riverside. Moreno Valley High School left the league to join the Mountain Valley League.

The Islamic Center of Riverside is a mosque in Riverside, California. Built in 1979, Friday services regularly attract over 1,000 worshipers.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "La Sierra High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. "Administration / Dr. Tania Cabeza, Principal". Alvord Schools. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  3. California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program . Accessed November 2, 2006.
  4. 1 2 California High School Exit Examination Cahsee Results. Accessed November 2, 2006.
  5. California Department of Education website. CDE website. Accessed November 2, 2006.
  6. "What is known so far about Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino shooting suspects". 4 December 2015.
  7. LA SIERRA HS 1985 FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO WCC JESSE JAMES
  8. 1 2 "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2012.