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November 8, 2009

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Chaparral

From the school

"Chaparral High School strongly believes that parent and community involvement is essential to the school improvement process.

"At least one parent sits on each of our standing school-wide committees. In fact, Chaparral is the only high school in southern Nevada with a chartered parent-teacher-student association.

"Our efforts to communicate with parents include, but are not limited to, personal interactions, bilingual written correspondence, and technology-based correspondence.

"Personal interactions include regular PTSA meetings, monthly bilingual PAC meetings, parent-teacher conferences, new student orientations for students and parents, ninth grade academy parent nights, smaller learning community recruiting nights, AVID parent nights, financial aid seminars, off-site parent/community meetings, and individual phone calls by teachers and other school personnel.

"Parents are also kept informed through flyers, mailings, the school newsletter, student handbooks, course catalogs, course expectations handouts, the school Web site, our new school e-newsletter, our autodialer program, and the internet-based EduLink InTouch system, and the Edulink automated calling system."

School details

  • Principal: Kevin McPartlin
  • All year: No
  • Safe Key: No
  • Full-day kindergarten: No
  • Block schedule: Yes
  • Level(s): High School
  • Dress code: No
  • Mascot: Cowboys
  • Made AYP: Unknown
  • Homework help centers: No
  • ESL offered: Unknown
  • Edison school: No
  • Class-size reduction: No
  • District: G
  • Region: (Superintendent School)
  • Alternative education summer school: Yes
  • Magnet school: No

Annual Data

  • 2008

Demographics

  • Enrollment: 2780
  • Female students: 47.7 %
  • Male students: 52 %
  • American Indian/Alaskan Native: 37 (1.3 %)
  • Asian/Pacific Islanders: 212 (7.6 %)
  • Black/African American: 455 (16.4 %)
  • Hispanic: 1300 (46.8 %)
  • White: 776 (27.9 %)
  • Free/Reduced Lunch students: 1155
  • Students with disabilities: 380
  • Limited English Proficiency students: 390

Fiscal Information

  • Total Expenditures/Pupil: $5962

Student Information

  • Average daily attendance: 89.3 %
  • Transiency: 43.4 %
  • Graduation rate: 45.7 %
  • Standard Diploma: 63.6 %
  • Advanced Diploma: 16.3 %
  • Adjusted Diploma: 7.8 %
  • Certificate of Attendance: 12.2 %
  • Dropout Rate: 10.7 %
  • Proficiency Failures: 12.2 %
  • NSHE Enrollment: 92
  • NSHE Remediated: 26
  • NSHE Remediated: 28.3 %

Technology

  • Classrooms: 109
  • Classrooms with Internet access: 109
  • Instructional computers: 588
  • Instructional computers with Internet access: 588
  • Labs/Libraries/Media Centers: 8
  • Labs/Libraries/Media Centers with Internet access: 8

Discipline

  • Possession/Use of Controlled Substances: 5
  • Possession of Weapons: 2
  • Violence to Students: 57
  • Habitual truants: 34

Assessments

  • AYP classification: Did Not Make Adequate Yearly Progress
  • AYP designation: In Need of Improvement (Year 4 - Hold)
  • AYP detail: Click here
  • HSPE info: Click here
  • NASSAA info: Click here
  • ITED info: Click here

Class size averages

  • English: 29
  • Math: 29
  • Science: 29
  • Social Studies: 30

Retention

  • 9th grade: 111 (12.4 %)
  • 10th grade: 46 (5.2 %)
  • 11th grade: 8 (1.5 %)
  • 12th grade: 14 (3.1 %)

Scoring

  • Math HS AS: 28 %
  • Math HS ED: 6 %
  • Math HS ES: 11 %
  • Math HS MS: 54 %
  • Reading HS AS: 7 %
  • Reading HS ED: 2 %
  • Reading HS ES: 34 %
  • Reading HS MS: 58 %
  • Writing HS AS: 15 %
  • Writing HS ED: 2 %
  • Writing HS ES: 4 %
  • Writing HS MS: 79 %
  • Key: AS = Approaches Standards; ED = Emergent/Developing; ES = Exceeds Standards; MS = Meets Standards; HS = High School; K8 = Kindergarten-8th grade

Additional Information

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