San Marino High School
A California Distinguished School, A National Blue Ribbon School, A Bravo Award School
SCHOOL PROFILE 2015-2016
COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL
- 1200 students grades 9-12, 330 seniors
- Ethnicity: 60% Asian; 27% White; 10% Hispanic; 1% African American; 1% Two or more races; 1% other
- 58 teachers, 7 counselors, 14 support personnel
- Academic year: two 20 week semesters
- More than 61% of students attend a six week summer school program primarily for enrichment and advancement
- Wireless campus with Apple TV in each classroom
- BRAVO Award-Winning Performing Arts Program;
- SMHS has a 1 to 1 ratio of chromebooks to students
HIGHER EDUCATION
Four Year Colleges / 84%University of California
CSU Campuses
California Privates
Out of State Privates
Out of State Publics
Military Academies
International Universities / 24%
9%
13%
22%
14%
1%
1%
Two Year Colleges / 13%
Other / 3%
GRADUATIONStudents are required to earn a total of 230 credits in
REQUIREMENTSthe following subjects:
English: 4 years
Mathematics: 2 years
Visual and Performing Arts: 1 year
Science: 2 years (1 year physical, 1 year biological)
History: 3 years (World History, American History,
Economics, American Government)
Health: 1 semester
Physical Education: 2 years
Electives: Remaining credits to total 230
Career Technical Education: 1 semester
Community Service:40 hours over 4 years
HONORS/AP CLASSES*
The following courses are designated as Honors by an (HP) appearing after the course title: / The following AP courses are offered as shown by the letters “AP” in the course title:Algebra 2 (HP)
English 1-2 (HP)
English 3-4 (HP)
English 7-8 HP)
Geometry (HP)
Humanities Seminar (HP)
Math Analysis (HP)
Physics (HP)
U. S. History (HP) / American Government AP
Biology AP
Calculus AB AP
Calculus BC AP
Chemistry AP
English Language AP
English Literature AP
Environmental Science AP
Spanish Language AP
Statistics AP
Studio Art AP
*Admission to Honors and AP classes offered on our campus is dependent upon previous classroom performance and/or examination. Class size restrictions and scheduling conflicts sometimes prevent qualified students from taking available AP courses. AP Psychology and AP European History permitted online as of September 2010.
RANK IN CLASS• Rank is not reported.
GPA• Physical Education, Teacher’s Assistant, Office Aide, peer mentoring, summer school enrichment classes and Pep are not calculated into GPA.
• Grades, but not credits, in repeat courses are included in addition to the original grades.
• AP and Honors classes are weighted and earn an additional grade point for calculation purposes.
- GPA is weighted and computed to the nearest one-thousandth.
- GPA is cumulative, reflecting an average of academic courses from grade 9.
NATIONAL MERIT• Class of 2015 (263 students) 10 National Merit Scholars were chosen from 57
commended students.
GRADE DISTRIBUTION: Class of 2016 as of September 2015
GPA Range (Cum) / # of students4.0 – 4.5 / 78
3.5 – 3.9 / 119
3.0 – 3.4 / 63
2.5 – 2.9 / 40
2.0 – 2.4 / 23
1.5 – 1.9 / 5
1.0 – 1.4 / 2
Below 1.0
SAT SCORES 212 graduates of the Class of 2015 took the SAT Reasoning test; 160 took Subject Tests.
SAT Subject Test Mean Scores
Exam Mean
Literature / 651US History / 633
Math II / 732
Biology E / 684
Biology M / 707
Chemistry / 733
Physics / 609
Chinese with Listening / 784
SAT Reasoning Mean Scores
Critical Reading: 601
Writing: 613
Mathematics: 657
Note on ACT: 145 graduates of 2015 took the ACT. The average composite score was 28.3
AP SCORES440 students (49.6 % of students in grades 10-12) took 945 AP exams in May 2015. The chart below shows the total number of AP exam grades of 3, 4, or 5 (scores reported for exams taken by 15 or more students).
Biology / 9 / 25 / 16 / 56 / Environ Sci / 2 / 12 / 7 / 57Calculus AB / 53 / 17 / 1 / 64 / Psychology / 10 / 24 / 6 / 72
Calculus BC / 34 / 4 / 1 / 39 / Physics I / 6 / 16 / 16 / 47
Chemistry / 27 / 26 / 19 / 79 / Spanish Lang / 4 / 18 / 18 / 46
Chinese Lang / 33 / 6 / 0 / 39 / Statistics / 10 / 27 / 12 / 73
English Lang / 26 / 42 / 25 / 95 / US Gov & Pol / 25 / 23 / 50 / 125
English Lit / 28 / 17 / 8 / 53 / US History / 12 / 21 / 33 / 113
Total Total
5 4 3 Exams 5 4 3 Exams
Students of the Class of 2015 will matriculate at the following colleges and schools:
AMDACollege Performing Arts
American University
Arizona State University
University of Arizona
Azusa Pacific University
Babson College
Boston University
Brown University
Bucknell University
University of California
Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles
Riverside
San Diego
Santa Barbara
California Lutheran University
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
California State University
Fullerton
Los Angeles
Maritime Academy
Northridge
Univ of Southern California
Chapman University
Chaffey College
University of Chicago
Claremont McKenna College
University of Colorado, Boulder
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of Denver
Drexel University
Emerson College
Eugene Lang College
Fairfield University
FIDM
Fordham University
Georgetown University
Gettysburg College
Harvard University
Haverford College
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Hofstra University
Univ of Illinois Urbana
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
La Sierra University
Univ of La Verne
Loyola Marymount University
Miami University
Michigan State University
University of Michigan
MIT
New York University
Northeastern University
Occidental College
University of Oregon
Pace University
University of the Pacific
Pasadena City College
Pennsylvania State University
Pepperdine University
Point Loma Nazarene Univ
Princeton University
Purdue University
Reed University
Regis University
Rhode Island School Design
University of Rochester
University of St. Thomas
University of San Diego
San Francisco State University
University of San Francisco
Santa Clara University
Southern CA Institute Architec
Stanford University
Texas Christian University
The American Univ of Paris
The City Univ of New York
Tufts University
US Coast Guard Academy
US Military Academy
Univ Europea de Madrid
Washington State University
Washington Univ of St. Louis
University of Washington
Wellesley College
Whitman College
Whittier College
Enlistment: 1 – Navy