Media College Preparatory High School is a small school built around journalism as an academic discipline and career area.
We emphasize academic rigor, greater math and science content, cross curricular activities, and writing for a larger audience as a means to reinforce language arts skills.
We seek to retain at-risk youth and expose all students to a career area that is actively seeking larger numbers of people of color, especially if they are bilingual.
Our language arts curriculum is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Students publish a newspaper and magazine, produce radio and television programming, and build Web sites. These activities maxamize heterogeneous groupings that allow all students to participate and learn. The following are our goals:
- Upon graduation, 90% of the entering freshman class will perform at or above grade level on the SAT9 test.
- Upon graduation, 90% of the entering freshman class will meet the requirement to enter the University of California.
- Upon graduation, 90% of the entering freshman class will be conversationally functional in Spanish.
- Upon graduation, 90% of the entering freshman wil have a thorough undestanding of media and be proficient in print, TV, radio broadcasting and Web design.
- Upon graduation, 90% of the entering freshman class will be proficient in Microsoft Office and desktpop publishing applications.