California is one of the most prosperous states in the United States, located on the west coast of the United States, where there is a famous Silicon Valley, famous all over the world, and it is also the kingdom of industry and computer industry, the world-famous Apple Inc., Facebook, etc. are located here, and the educational resources are also very rich, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are all in California, so what are the top private schools here?Today, I will give you a specific summary.
1. Woodside Priory School
Founded in 1957, Woodside is a school located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, 35 minutes from San Francisco and 10 minutes from Stanford University. The school offers a high-quality college preparatory program and offers a challenging and competitive athletic program.
School Advantages. 1.Academically, the Academic Resource Centre (ARC) contains a range of information, tools and training, as well as a team of teachers and psychologists to help students with academic performance and problem solving
2.The school pays attention to science, science and technology teaching is very strong, and has opened courses such as mobile phone or computer programs, game design, digital film production, and multi-production production, and the robot has won the first place in international competitions
3.The faculty is strong, with 80% of the faculty holding advanced degrees;
4.Athletic strengths: The women's basketball team won the interstate women's basketball championship;The rugby team went unbeaten in the Mission Trail League championship.
2. Hack School.
The Harker School (CA), located in the heart of Northern California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco and San Jose, was founded in 1893 with the help of Stanford's first principal, D**id Starr Jordan. It is an independent college-preparatory day school for boys and girls that offers classes K-12, with an average SAT score of over 2,000, 80% of the faculty with advanced degrees, and 91% of students who score 4 or more on AP exams.
School advantages: 1. Huck attaches great importance to STEM education and can be called one of the top STEM high schools in the United States. Since 2006, a total of 98 students have been selected as semi-finalists in competitions organized by Intel or Regeneron, and have won many prizes.
2. Harker also attaches great importance to sports, with 40 school teams, 8 sports in the lower grades, 12 sports in the junior high school, and 15 sports in the high school.
3. Since The Harker School is located in Silicon Valley, the center of the high-tech industry, many students are admitted to Stanford University or the University of California, Berkeley every year
4. Since the first year of these competitions in 2006, Huck has had 70 semi-finalists, 10 finalists and 2 winners of the Intel Science Talent Contest. (Hack's first high school graduating class was in 2002.) ）
5. Every year, more than 50% of students are recognized by the University Board in the National Honors Scholarship Program.
In Germany, Harker students represented the United States at the J8 Summit (a youth event parallel to the G8 Summit) in Germany.
4. In K-GR90% of the students in the 8 programs participated in the integrated extracurricular program.
3. Castilleja School
Located in Palo Alto, San Francisco's Bay Area, California, Castilleja is a top day school for girls, about 5 kilometers from Stanford University, 85% of the teachers have advanced degrees, the school is very academically strong, and many students go on to top universities and UC system schools.
School Advantages:1Valuing the Arts: Through the exploration of various artistic disciplines such as dance, dramatic arts, and visual arts, students learn to be creators, collaborators, leaders, and risk-takers.
2.Emphasis is placed on developing students' leadership skills.
3.Arts-Infused STEM Projects: Integrate coding, production, design thinking, and engineering across grade levels and subject areas to understand the importance of aesthetics when engaging in practical applications of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
4.Advanced Topics (AT) Curriculum: First taught by Castilleja faculty and staff in the 2012-13 school year, it examines how adolescent girls learn best. The AT course has been carefully designed to replace the Advanced Placement (AP) course, which explores topics in greater depth and emphasizes experiential learning.