School Profile

2008-2009 School Profile (pdf file)

• College Preparatory, Honors, and Advanced Placement Classes
• Academic Achievements
• College Acceptances

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Archbishop Mitty High School
5000 Mitty Avenue
San Jose, CA 95129
Telephone (408) 252-6610
Fax (408) 252-0518
CEEB Code 053078

Mr. Tim Brosnan, Principal
Mr. Richard Robinson, Associate Principal
Ms. Kate Caputo, Assistant Principal
Ms. Lisa Brunolli, Assistant Principal
Mrs. Latanya Hilton, Assistant Principal
Mrs. Claudia Temple, Assistant Principal
Mr. Greg Walker, Director of Admissions
Ms. Janie Falcone, College Guidance Department Chair
Mr. Jorge Helmer, Director of Finance and Business Operations

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THE MISSION

Archbishop Mitty High School is the Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school of the Diocese of San Jose. The school embraces the Catholic educational mission of developing community, teaching the message of the Gospels, and promoting service, peace, and justice. Through its rigorous academic program, Archbishop Mitty seeks to prepare its students for college and for responsible leadership in the global society of the 21st century. At the same time, the school works diligently with parents to foster the development of each student. Recognizing that each individual is created in the image and likeness of God, the school celebrates and affirms its diverse cultural community and encourages students to respond to their world with competence, insight, understanding, courage, and compassion based on a tradition of faith and moral values.

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THE SCHOOL

Students commute from a wide geographical area to attend AMHS. Admission is based on previous academic work, recommendations, placement test scores, and extracurricular activities. AMHS consists of grades 9-12 and operates on a rotating block, semester system. Each class meets 2-3 times a week for 55-85 minutes. Students may enroll in up to seven courses per semester, but take no fewer than six courses.

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ACCREDITATION

Western Association of Schools and Colleges Association
National Catholic Educational Association
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of College Admissions Counselors
Western Association of College Admissions Counselors
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development
The College Board

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THE FACULTY

The faculty and administration consists of 110 teachers. 59 teachers possess advanced degrees.

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COUNSLEING AND GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT

Six full-time counselors and 11 part-time counselors provide academic and personal counseling, college planning services and a comprehensive parent education program. Each year all juniors and seniors take five required College Guidance Courses.

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CAMPUS MINISTRY

The AMHS Campus Ministry program offers a multitude of ways for students to strengthen their spirituality through student ministry teams (MICAH and LIFE-Emmaus Team), immersion trips, class level retreats, all-school liturgies and a variety of service experiences. Summer immersion trips explore the cultural and historical contexts of El Salvador, South Africa, India, Appalachia and California and complement the curricular offerings in the junior Ethics, Culture and Justice classes.

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ATHLETIC PROGRAMS

AMHS fields 66 interscholastic athletic teams in 26 sports. Young men and women participate in the West Catholic Athletic League, which provides the highest level of competition. Over the last five years, more than 150 Archbishop Mitty alumni have gone on to participate in four year collegiate athletic programs.

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STUDENT ACTIVITIES

The AMHS Student Activities program provides leadership opportunities for over a quarter of the student body. Overseeing student government, clubs, dances, rallies, homecoming, Spirit Week, and the ever-popular class spirit competition, Monarch Madness. The Student Activities program serves as the hub of activity for fostering and maintaining Mitty Spirit throughout the year.

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PERFORMING ARTS

AMHS Performing Arts Program hosts a Fall Musical, Winter Drama, a Spring Musical, and a Christmas Concert to complement the curricular offerings in Band, Jazz Band, Beginning Choir, Concert Choir, Jazz Choir, Acting, Drama Performance, Music Theory AP, and Dance.

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STUDENT ENROLLMENT

• 1650 students attend AMHS.
• 45% of the students are young men and 55% are young women.
• 68% of the students are Catholic.
  

The student body identifies itself as:

54.8%	White, not of Hispanic origin
12.9%	Hispanic
7.3%	Asian
6.8%	No Response
4.2%	Filipino
3.1%	African-American
2.6%	Multi Racial
2.5%	Vietnamese
3.7%	Chinese
.8%	Japanese
.7%	Korean
.4%	Native American
.1%	Pacific Islander
.1%	Other non-white

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GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Arts	2 semesters
Christian Service	100 hours
English	8 semesters
Introduction to Philosophy	1 semesters
Mathematics	6 semesters
Modern Language	4 semesters
Physical Development	2 semesters
Religious Studies	7 semesters
Science	7 semesters
Social Studies	7 semesters

240 semester units are required for graduation from Archbishop Mitty High School

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Accelerated, Honors, and Advanced Placement Courses

AMHS offers a wide selection of courses in a traditional college preparatory curriculum. All courses that are not designated as Accelerated, Honors or Advanced Placement are presented at the same college preparatory level. To enroll in accelerated (Acc), honors (H), and Advanced Placement (AP) classes, students must meet grade prerequisites and/or pass qualifying exams to be admitted. Honors and Advanced Placement courses are given an extra grade point in the academic cumulative GPA and total cumulative GPA.

For a detailed description of all of our courses, please go to our department pages.

English	History	Math
English I Acc English II Honors English Language AP English Literature AP	American Government AP European History AP (Fall’08) US History AP World History AP (Fall ’07)	Algebra I Acc Algebra II Honors Algebra II/Trig H Calculus AB AP Calculus BC AP Computer Science AP Geometry Honors Pre-Calculus Honors Statistics AP
Modern Language	Science	Music
Spanish I Acc Spanish II Honors Spanish III Honors Spanish IV AP French II Honors French III Honors French IV AP	General Science Acc Biology Honors Biology AP Chemistry Honors Pre-Calculus Honors Chemistry AP Calculus AB AP Physics Honors Calculus BC AP Physics AP Environmental Science AP	Music Theory AP (Fall’08)

 

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Additional Curriculum Features

AMHS students take well above the number of semester units required for graduation and for admittance to the California State University and the University of California systems in mathematics, science, and modern language. 95% of students take more than three years of mathematics, 90% take more than three years of science, and 82% take more than two years of modern language.

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Academic Achievements

GPA is determined on a 4.0 system beginning in the 9th grade with one extra grade point given for honors and AP courses. A total cumulative GPA and an academic cumulative GPA that consists of all grades, but Physical Education and athletics is listed on the transcript.

Grading Scale Decile
A  (4.0)	100-93	C+ (2.3)	79-77
A- (3.7)	92-90	C (2.0)	76-73
B+ (3.3)	89-87	C- (1.7)	72-70
B  (3.0)	86-83	D+ (1.3)	69-67
B- (2.7)	82-80	D (1.0)	66-63
		D- (0.7)	62-60
		F (0.0)	59-0

Decile Distribution (2009 377 Students)
First	4.26 - 4.63	Sixth	3.28 - 3.49
Second	4.05 - 4.25	Seventh	3.08 - 3.27
Third	3.87 – 4.04	Eighth	2.83 - 3.07
Fourth	3.66 - 3.86	Ninth	2.60 - 2.82
Fifth	3.50 - 3.65	Tenth	1.91 - 2.59

Class of 2009 Statistics
PSAT/NMSQT	9 Semi Finalists	39 Commended
National Hispanic Scholars	7 Scholars
Advanced Placement Program	Total Exams: 761	Total Students: 432 Scored 3 or higher: 81%

AP Subjects, % Scoring 3 or Higher (2008)
Biology	86%	French	82%
Calculus AB	74%	American Government	83%
Calculus BC	100%	Chinese Language	100%
Chemistry	100%	Physics	94%
Computer Science	44%	Spanish	100%
English Language	100%	Statistics	74%
English Literature	100%	US History	73%
Environmental Science	92%	World History	74%

SAT Reasoning Means (2008)
	Critical Reading	Math	Writing
Archbishop Mitty	570	581	588
California	500	510	490
Nation	502	515	494

SAT Subject Test Means (2008)
Biology-M	663	Math 2	600
Biology-E	576	Spanish	551
Chemistry	592	United Stated History	582
French	522
Literature	575

ACT Means (2008)
	English	Math	Reading	Science	Composite
Archbishop Mitty	24.1	24.6	24.8	24.0	24.5
California	21.8	22.8	22.4	21.3	22.2
Nation	20.6	21.0	21.4	20.8	21.1

College Acceptances-Class of 2008

University of California
UC Berkeley*	25
UC Davis*	54
UC Irvine*	40
UC Los Angeles*	31
UC Merced	16
UC Riverside*	35
UC San Diego*	41
UC Santa Barbara*	58
UC Santa Cruz*	36
Total	336

California State University
Cal Poly Pomona	20
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo*	45
California Maritime Academy	1
CSU Bakersfield*	2
CSU Channel Islands*	4
CSU Chico*	77
CSU Dominguez Hills	1
CSU East Bay	3
CSU Fresno	13
CSU Fullerton	13
CSU Long Beach*	45
CSU Los Angeles	6
CSU Monterey Bay*	28
CSU Northridge*	13
CSU Sacramento*	20
CSU San Marcos	2
CSU Stanislaus	3
Humboldt State University	7
San Diego State University*	57
San Francisco State University*	64
San Jose State University*	157
Sonoma State University*	49
Total	630

California Independent Colleges and Universities
Academy of Art University	1
California College of the Arts*	1
California Institute of Technology*	1
California Lutheran University*	3
Chapman University*	8
Concordia University	1
Dominican University*	7
Harvey Mudd College	2
Holy Names University	1
Loyola Marymount University*	21
Notre Dame de Namur University	1
Occidental College	2
Pepperdine University*	7
Point Loma Nazarene University	1
Pomona College	1
Saint Mary’s College of California*	26
Santa Clara University*	60
Scripps College	2
Simpson University*	1
Stanford University*	5
University of La Verne	1
University of Redlands*	5
University of San Diego*	30
University of San Francisco*	34
University of Southern California*	15
University of the Pacific*	18
Westmont College	3
Whittier College	1
Total	259
California Community Colleges

California Community Colleges
De Anza College*	11
Evergreen Valley College*	1
Foothill College*	1
San Diego Mesa College*	1
San Jose City College*	1
Santa Barbara City College*	2
Sierra College*	1
West Valley College*	16
Total	34

Out-of-State Colleges and Universities
Alabama State University	1
American University	2
Arizona State University*	24
Bellevue Community College*	1
Bentley College*	1
Boston College*	4
Boston University*	14
Brown University*	1
Bucknell University*	3
Carnegie Mellon University	1
Carroll College (Montana)	1
Case Western Reserve University*	3
Catholic University of America	1
Colorado Mountain College	1
Colorado State University*	6
Connecticut College*	1
Cornell University	1
Creighton University*	1
Dartmouth College*	1
DePaul University*	1
DePauw University	1
Drew University	1
Drexel University	1
Duke University	1
Duquesne University	1
Emerson College*	3
Emory University	1
Fairfield University	1
Florida Atlantic University	1
Florida Institute of Technology	1
Fordham University*	2
George Washington University	1
Georgetown University*	1
Georgia Institute of Technology	2
Gettysburg College	1
Gonzaga University*	13
Grambling State University	1
Grove City College	1
Hampton University	1
Hartwick College	1
Harvard University*	1
Hofstra University*	3
Holy Cross College	1
Howard University	1
Indiana University at Bloomington*	1
Iowa State University	1
Ithaca College	1
Johns Hopkins University	3
Kettering University	1
Lake Erie College	1
Lehigh University*	1
Lewis & Clark College	3
Linfield College	1
Loyola College in Maryland	1
Loyola University Chicago*	4
Manhattan College*	1
Miami University, Oxford	1
Michigan State University	1
Milwaukee School of Engineering	1
Montana State University, Bozeman	1
Mount Holyoke College	1
New York University*	6
North Carolina State University	1
Northeastern University	4
Northern Arizona University	5
Northwestern University	1
Oregon State University*	7
Pennsylvania State University	1
Portland State University	5
Princeton University*	2
Purdue University	2
Regis University	1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1
Rollins College	1
Rutgers State	1
Salve Regina University	1
Seattle Pacific University	1
Seattle University*	5
Seton Hall University	2
Smith College	1
Southern Methodist University	1
Southern University at New Orleans	1
St. Andrews Presbyterian College	1
Syracuse University	1
Tufts University	1
Tulane University	1
University of Arizona*	20
University of Chicago	1
University of Colorado, Boulder*	17
University of Dallas	1
University of Dayton	1
University of Denver	2
University of Hawaii, Manoa*	1
University of Idaho	1
University of Illinois, Chicago	1
University of Kentucky	1
University of Maryland	1
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	1
University of Miami	1
University of Nebraska, Lincoln*	1
University of Nevada, Las Vegas*	1
University of Nevada, Reno	2
University of New Hampshire	1
University of Notre Dame	1
University of Oregon*	20
University of Pennsylvania*	2
University of Pittsburgh	1
University of Portland*	7
University of Puget Sound	3
University of Utah*	1
University of Vermont	1
University of Washington	4
Virginia Intermont College	1
Washington State University*	3
Washington University in St. Louis*	2
Western Michigan University*	1
Western State College of Colorado*	1
Willamette University*	1
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	3
Xavier University*	1
Yale University	1
Total	297

International
McGill University	1

Grand Total            1523

*Indicates where one or more students from the Class of 2008 matriculated.