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Section A: Updated Student Community Profile 2009-2010
San Diego City Schools (SDCS) serves approximately 136,000 students in an area that covers more than 200 square miles. The district is the 8th largest urban school district in the United States and the 2nd largest in California. The district employs more than 15,800 people in 202 educational facilities, 30 of which serve high school students. Certificated staff number 9,044, and classified staff number 6,706.
San Diego City Schools is made up of a diverse socioeconomic and ethnic student body. Almost 53 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced meals. Twenty-eight percent of students are English learners. More than 60 languages other than English are spoken by students in the district.
Samuel F. B. Morse High School
Samuel F. B. Morse High School serves over 2,200 students, grades nine through twelve, in the Skyline-Paradise Hills area of San Diego. The community is culturally diverse and composed mainly of single family dwellings. Morse High School receives students from the surrounding community. Students matriculate from three feeder schools that serve the Skyline-Paradise Hills community: Bell Junior High School, Keiller Middle School, and O’Farrell Charter School. Over the last six years enrollment at Morse has decreased significantly. The largest number of students, 3,090, enrolled in 2002-03. Over the following seven years enrollment dropped to 2,206 for the 2009-2010 school year.
Samuel F.B. Morse High School Vision/Mission and What We Expect from Our Graduates
Our vision: Morse High School is a community united in providing opportunities for all individuals to reach their full potential.
The mission of Morse High School is: Together, Morse students, parents, staff and community will promote a positive learning environment in which students can demonstrate a high level of achievement based on the California Standards and Expected school-wide Learning Results (ESLRs).
COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY
• Read, write, speak, listen, and respond thoughtfully
• Demonstrate mastery of content-area standards
• Exhibit skills necessary for continued independent learning
• Utilize technology appropriately for communication
• Demonstrate career knowledge and job acquisition skills
THINK CRITICALLY AND PROBLEM SOLVE
• Demonstrate ability to use reasoning skills to solve complex problems within content-area standards
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and independent learning
• Utilize technology appropriately to gain information and solve problems.
PRACTICE RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP THROUGH POSITIVE SOCIAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
• Be honest and principled
• Show respect for self and others
• Celebrate cultural diversity
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle
• Value and practice community service
• Demonstrate ability to work productively as members of a local community and global society
Morse High School ’s school-wide Student Goals are to:
Increase student academic achievement in relation to CST, ELA, and math benchmarks
Improve the graduation rates for all student subgroups |