| Hillsdale High School | |
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3115 Del Monte Street , 94403 United States | |
| Coordinates | 37°31′57″N122°18′46″W / 37.532403°N 122.312669°W /37.532403; -122.312669 |
| Information | |
| Type | PublicSecondary |
| Established | 1955 |
| Principal | Jeff Gilbert |
| Teaching staff | 88.46 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 1,581 (2023-2024)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.29[1] |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Columbia Blue, Scarlet Red |
| Athletics conference | Peninsula Athletic League |
| Team name | Fighting Knights |
| Rival | Aragon High School |
| Newspaper | Hillsdale Scroll[2] |
| Yearbook | The Hillsdale Shield |
| Website | www |
Hillsdale High School is apublicco-educationalhigh school inSan Mateo,California, serving grades 9–12 as part of theSan Mateo Union High School District. Hillsdale generally serves the residents of San Mateo andFoster City. The main feeder schools to Hillsdale are Abbott, Bayside, Borel, and Bowditch Middle Schools of theSan Mateo-Foster City School District.
When it opened in 1955, Hillsdale High School was awarded the School Design Award from theAmerican Institute of Architects. It served as the prototype for Bay Area high schools, with indoor/outdoor passages, landscaped courtyards, and skylights in classrooms.[3] The design is credited toJohn Lyon Reid.[4]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, teachers Greg Jouriles and Sue Bedford developed and implemented an integrated humanities curriculum, scheduling social studies and English classes back-to-back. The extended periods were first rolled out to first-year honors students in 1989, followed by a parallel program implemented by Christine Del Gaudio and Marty Kongsle for the remaining first-year students in 1992.[5]: 5 1994 marked the start of the annual Battle at Dawn, a re-enactment of theBattle of Neuve Chapelle for first-year students at HHS as part of their studies aboutWorld War I.[6][7]: 8
In 1996, HHS proposed implementing a senior exhibition as a graduation requirement to pass fourth-year English classes. Students would have to defend a fifteen-page thesis before a three-member panel for their senior exhibition, which drew attention from parents concerned their children would not pass.[5]: 7 The senior exhibition requirement was implemented in 1997, and the review of multiple drafts added a substantial load to teachers' grading burden, including one-on-one assistance and mentoring. As a result, a tutorial period was added to the teachers' schedules in 1999, and the English, social studies, and math teachers collaborated to create the Reflective, Eager, Aspiring, Learning Masters (REALM) program to help personalize instruction.[5]: 8–9 Jeff Gilbert left HHS in 2001 to join theStanford Teacher Education Program, introducing the two schools, and Stanford faculty entered into a Professional Development School relationship with HHS in the fall of 2001.[5]: 10
In the early 2000s, HHS won multiple grants to transform school culture into small learning communities (SLC),[8] an approach championed byLinda Darling-Hammond,[9] who had introduced HHS faculty to the concept during a professional development day in January 2002.[5]: 10 The planning for SLCs at HHS was funded by a spring 2002 federal grant which culminated in Coyote Point Day, a two-day discussion and planning session held offsite atCoyote Point Park in November 2002.[5]: 11
Under the SLC model, incoming first-year students at HHS are divided into three houses (Florence, Kyoto, and Oaxaca), named for important medieval centers of learning; each house has approximately 100 students, who stay with a common set of teachers covering math, English, social science, and science for two years.[10] Between their second and third years, students are reorganized into three upper-division houses (Cusco, Jakarta, and Timbuktu), where they remain for their final two years. Students take elective and advanced placement courses outside their houses.[11]
On August 24, 2009, twopipe bombs were detonated in a hallway of Hillsdale High School during the beginning of the day's classes. No one was injured.[12] Nobody was injured from the explosions.[13] Alex Youshock, then a 17-year-old former student of the school, was held by staff members.[14] Youshock was convicted for the attack and sentenced to nearly 25 years of prison.[15][16]
SMUHSD residents approved Measure D in 2000[17] and Measure M in 2006,[18][19] which directly funded the repair and modernization of District schools, including Hillsdale.
2022-2023[1]1,645 students: 845 male (51%), 800 female (49%)
| Latino/Hispanic | White | Asian | Two or More Races | African American | Pacific Islander | American Indian |
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| 573 | 522 | 334 | 169 | 24 | 19 | 4 |
| 34.8% | 31.7% | 20.3% | 10.3% | 1.5% | 1.2% | 0.2% |
Hillsdale participates in thePeninsula Athletic League (PAL) in the following sports:[20]
Hillsdale High School has received a number of awards and honors:
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