SCHOOL PROFILE

1300 Northwest 139th Street
Vancouver, Washington 98685
Telephone: (360) 313-4200
Fax: (360) 313-4201
CEEB code: 481-489

DISTRICT INFORMATION: Vancouver Public Schools serve nearly 22,000 students (from numerous backgrounds and nationalities) in grades K-12 with 23 elementary schools, six middle schools, and six high schools. Most of those schools are either newly built or remodeled to accommodate education for the 21st century.

SKYVIEW HIGH SCHOOL: Skyview is a four-year comprehensive high school with 1850 students and 85 teaching faculty, accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary Schools. Skyview follows a two semester academic calendar with six classes per day, meeting five times per week, for 55 minutes each. Each course has a semester value of 0.50 credits with a total of 23 credits required for graduation.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS: All students follow a traditional graduation plan to satisfactorily complete 23 Carnegie Units. The requirements are as follows:  

SENIOR PROJECT: In order to graduate from Skyview High School, all seniors must complete a senior project. The project provides seniors the opportunity to demonstrate their attainment of Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Core Competencies through a project in an area of personal interest. The project consists of four inter-related tasks: a research paper, community service involvement, a product of student design, and an oral presentation of the project to the community.

CURRICULUM FEATURES: Science - Math - Technology (SMT) Magnet: The SMT Magnet program offers, to motivated students from across the Vancouver School District, the opportunity to experience high school in a different way. The SMT gives its freshmen and sophomore students the strong foundations needed in the disciplines of science, math, and technology in order to then allow SMT juniors and seniors the chance to expand into more project work and individual & team research in areas of particular student interest. Seniors successfully completing the four year SMT program will exit with powerful thinking skills, expert use of various technological tools, meet and exceed district essential learning goals for science, math, and technology, and be fully prepared for technical training in college.

ADVANCED PLACEMENT: Courses offered in Literature and Composition, Language and Composition, Comparative Government and Politics, United States History, World History, Calculus, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, French, Spanish, and Art History.

Pre-ADVANCED PLACEMENT: The Pre-AP program is a rigorous, focused course of study designed to prepare 9^th and 10^th grade students for success in Advanced Placement courses and selective post-secondary education.