美国Monta Vista High School蒙塔维斯塔高中2016年招生政策解读

　　Monta Vista High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, California, USA. Part of the Fremont Union High School District, the school serves most of the suburban residential and industrial technology enriched area of western Cupertino. Monta Vista opened in 1969, offering only freshman and sophomore classes; the first class graduated in 1972. Since then, its student body size has averaged about 2400 students. Monta Vista is regarded as one of the top high schools in California located in one of the most affluent cities in the country with recorded average income of more than $100,000 per household.

　　Demographics

　　As of the 2006-2007 school year, Monta Vista has a student body of 2,450 students, of which 72% are Asian, 25% are White and 3% are Other (African American,Latino,Native American). 5% are limited English.Monta Vista has the largest student body in the district. Starting in the 1990s, Monta Vista was heavily Chinese though recently, there has been a significant influx of South Asians beginning in the 2000s. A 2005 Wall Street Journal article claimed that Monta Vista was experiencing a “white flight” caused by White American families feeling overwhelmed by the academic focus of the school‘s majority Asian American students.

　　Academics

　　Monta Vista had an API score of 956 points out of 1000 as of 2012. In the class of 2009 alone, there were 42 National Merit Semi-finalists and 84 National Merit Commended students. After analyzing 21,069 public high schools in America, US News & World Report issued America’s Best High Schools in 2009 which ranked Monta Vista #73. In 2007, Newsweek‘s 1,200 top U.S. schools ranked Monta Vista #85, the 7th Californian high school. The highest ranked school in the Fremont Union High School District, The Washington Post magazine ranked Monta Vista as the 57th best high school in the United States, the fourth highest academically performing high school in all of California, and the highest academically ranked school in the Fremont Union High School District in 2005. Though these rankings exclude private schools, many have selective admission policies, whereas schools like Monta Vista and Lynbrook do not; however, proof of residency is required for enrollment. For this reason, these rankings do not necessarily provide accurate results for all high schools.

　　Monta Vista Students are encouraged to take a challenging curriculum, offering up to seven classes a day. The school offers eight honors classes and fifteen Advanced Placement classes.By sophomore year, students are already taking honors-level classes, with some already taking AP-level courses such as Music Theory or Computer Science. Students are required to take two science classes, however most choose to take all three major offerings at the school (Biology, Chemistry, and Physics). Monta Vista’s science offerings are particularly strong, with its Physics program known for being more challenging than entry-level college courses. In the 2010-2011 school year, Monta Vista produced four Intel International Science and Engineering Fair semi-finalists.

　　During students‘ junior and senior years, they can choose to participate in one of the alternative programs offered through De Anza College. The Middle College Program is available to juniors and seniors, while College Now is offered exclusively to members of the senior class. These programs allow students to explore interests with classes that aren’t always offered at high school and build up college credits while completing the requirements for a diploma.

　　Student activities

　　Monta Vista High School‘s mascot is the Matador, with purple and gold as its official school colors. The school mascot’s uniform, however, is that of a purple bull. Recently, on August 31st 2012, a new Mascot, a Matador, was introduced in the Friday Rally. Monta Vista High School rivals nearby Lynbrook High School and Cupertino High School and competes in the SCVAL of the Central Coast Section. The girl‘s swim team were CCS champions in 2008. The girl’s soccer team were CCS champions in 1979 and 2009.

　　The school‘s campus consists of a large baseball field, an American football field, and tennis courts. Due to a lack of lighting on the field, Monta Vista held their home football games at Cupertino High School. In 2007, the school completed construction of the new lighted pool, which is host to several water polo and swimming competitions per year. In June 2012, the school completed construction of the new football field with lights, and beginning in the Fall of 2012 home football games were held on the Monta Vista campus.

　　The Class of 2011 began a tradition where students would camp out at school the day and night bore orientation to change their courses and schedules, in order to have teachers of their choice. As a result of their actions, the administration took teacher names off of preliminary schedules to curb the camp outs, however students reverse-engineered teacher names from class section numbers. For the 2011-2012 school year, all section numbers have been removed and it was made impossible for future classes to know their teachers ahead of time. Police patrols were set up to curb any attempts to camp out.

　　Monta Vista High School has a school-wide acclaimed leadership class that is ranked from ASB Officers (usually seniors that have been class officers for the majority of their school experience, class officers for each grade (that plan their class’s events, fundraisers and proms are elected through weeks of competitive campaigning) and commissions (groups of students that focus on a specific goal to help the school.) Due to budget cuts and district changes, the class consists of two advisors and the combination of Community Leadership, so the class now includes a Board.

　　Bernard Wong has been known to sit in the backseat and know his role because it is all he does on a day-to-day basis in life.