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Mission Statement

The mission of La Center High School is to provide a positive, caring environment founded on high standards where all students develop skills necessary to be responsible citizens, active learners, and productive members of a modern global community.

Our School

La Center High School is the 9 -12 high school serving the students and parents of the La Center School District. The high school was originally completed in 1993 and has undergone considerable remodeling in the high school office and career center along with the construction of a new two story wing which has a new Library and eleven new classrooms. With the average enrollment of 465 students during the 2006-2007 school year, La Center High School is in the “A” school classification, a member of the SWW A League and WIAA District four.
A wide variety of curricular and extracurricular activities are available to the students of La Center High School. Included in these are, Concert Band, Choral Ensemble, Jazz Band and Jazz Choir, Science Club, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Running Start, Skills Center, Knowledge Bowl, Honor Society, an exceptional Drama and Art program, as well as a highly successful athletic program.
La Center High School provides students opportunity to use technology in a number of lab settings. There are in excess of 180 computers in the high school. The business lab has IBM compatible computers running the software Microsoft Office.

How you can help

Parents can become involved in La Center High School and their children’s education in many ways. They can become generally involved with the organization called P.I.E. (Parents Involved in Education.) These parents volunteer their time to help during lunch hours, and in the Library. If they wish to become more specifically involved with their children’s education, they can join such groups as the Booster Club, LCEF, Music Association, Vocational Advisory, and Senior Parents. Parents involved in these support groups support specific activities and provide fundraising assistance. Participation of parents is vitally important to maintain a quality school. If you would like to get involved in any of these activities, please contact the High School office at 263-1700.

2006-2007 Accomplishments

First fall open house and BBQ with 300+ attendees.

Completed student lounge area with student work display cases built into the counters.

Completed implementation of Navigation 101 curriculum and scheduled students into their advisory groups.

Continued to improve school webpage and teacher lesson plan pages.

Conducted successful safety lockdown and evacuation drill with local police and fire in conjunction with table top exercise and review of building safety plan.

Increased number of "parent link" publications and distributed hard copies as well as continued those postings on our webpage.

The band and choir attended and won numerous awards at the Band and Choir Festival in Seattle last spring also at the Best in the NW festival.

Created on-line classes in both Health and Washington State History.

Developed Senior Seminar for our seniors to more easily meet the new state graduation requirements.

Re-aligned and expanded our elective offerings in our Social Studies Dept.

Conducted an all school BBQ and 8th grade parent night to smooth transitions for our incoming freshman.

Expanded our vocational class offerings to record levels. This included an additional two sections in our new metals shop.

Boys and Girls Cross Country, Football, Girls and Boys Soccer, Boys and Girls Wrestling, Boys Golf, Softball, Boys and Girls Track and Equestrian all made the state playoffs or championship tournaments.

35 of our students were recognized last spring in the Clark County Evening of Excellence for excellence in numerous academic and social categories.

Graduate Data
The chart below provides information about the graduates who leave high school bound for additional schooling, work, or the military. La Center High School generally has more than 60% of its graduates pursue some form of post high school training, including 4 year college, 2 year college or vocational/technical school. One of the goals is to maintain a program which continues to have a relatively low drop out rate.

Demographics
This section gives some basic demographic information about the student and staff population of our school.

Assessment Data
Included in this data are grade point averages by class for the past few years, as well as the school’s average test results from required state testing and college entrance exams (SAT). As with any testing,the average score is affected by the number of students taking the test. The relatively small number of students involved in the tests may cause averages to fluctuate substantially from year to year.

Activities
Students, who participate in athletics and activities at La Center High School, continue to excel and bring pride to our school. Our successes come from the dedication of students, coaches and advisors. Results from participationcan easily be seen across our campus and throughout thestudent body as well. These extracurricular activities include:

*FBLA, Furture Business Leaders of America
**VICA is now under Skills USA
*** FCCLA, Family Career and Community Leaders of America

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Activity Participation

	2006 - 2007		2005 -2006		2004 - 2005
	Student	%	Student	%	Student	%
Band	78	16.8%	88	18.8%	57	13.5
Choir	24	5.2%	24	5.1%	33	7.8%
Honor Society	18	3.9%	22	4.7%	29	6.9%
FCCLA	80	17.2%	12	2.5%	20	4.7%
VICA	16	3.4%	13	2.7%	25	5.9%
FBLA	12	2.6%	10	2.1%	9	2.1%
Drama	22	4.7%	21	4.5%	22	5.2%
Knowledge Bowl	10	2.2%	12	2.5%	12	2.8%
Non - Participants	205	44.1%	266	56.83%	236	56.05%
All Activities	260	55.9%	202	43.16%	185	43.94%

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Sports Participation

	2006-2007		2005-2006		2004-2005
Fall	192	41%	144	34.4%	150	34.4%
Winter	87	19%	81	18.5%	81	18.5%
Spring	135	33%	109	25.5%	111	25.5%
Total	414		334		342

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Running Start
Running Start is a state-wide program where juniors and seniors can attend a local community college and receive high school and college credit at the same time. Through the Running Start program, many students over the last 4 years have earned an AA degree from Clark College or Lower Columbia College while meeting the requirements for high school graduation. Other students graduated with only a few credits yet to be earned toward their two-year college degree.

	Students	Classes	College Credit
Fall 2006	34	46	319
Winter 2007	32	53	310
Spring 2007	28	54	258

Fall 2005	32	73	284
Winter 2006	33	90	300
Spring 2006	29	92	278

Spring 2004	24	63	205
Winter 2005	23	58	190
Spring 2005	20	55	185

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Attendance Data
The data below shows the percentage of students who have been absent nine or more days during the school year and also those who were gone five or less days.
This is based on students who were gone three or more periods.

Percent of Students	2006-2007	2005-2006	2004-2005
Absent 9 or more days (3+ periods)	51%	44%	48%
Absent 5 or less days	34%	25%	37%
Average Daily attendance	92.96%	92.34%	92%

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Vocational Program
La Center High School currently provides programs in business, keyboarding and computer application, independent living, creative cooking, sewing/personal choices, family health, child development and industrial arts as well as small engine repair, woods 1 and woods 2, leather craft, metals 1, metals 2 and metal art welding. ASB club activities such as FBLA, FCCLA and VICA support the curriculum in these vocational programs.

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Goals for 2006-2007
Goal # 1 Improve Student, Parent and Teacher Communication:
• Implement Navigation 101.
• Implement Student Led Conferences.
Goal # 2 Improve student’s relevant life skills for post high school success:
• Implement senior seminar course to deliver adult life skills curriculum, 5th year plan and culminating project preparation.
Goal # 3 Improve student technology use and competency:
• Revise freshman focus class to include technological skills.
• Increase technology in-service opportunities for staff.

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Certificated		Males	Females
Teachers	25	11	14
Support Staff
Administrators	2	1	1
Athletic Director	1	1
Vocational Director	1	1
Classified
Classroom Aides	4		4
Custodians	3	3
Support Staff	9		9
Volunteers	1	1

Total Number of Certificated Teachers	25
Teacher experience (Avg. years)	17.8
Teachers with at least a masters degree	80%
Teachers holding a provisional or a Emergency certificate	0
% of classes not taught by "highly qualified teachers "as defined by state standards"	0

	Class of 2007	Class of 2006	Class of 2005
Total Graduates	89	102	99
College Bound (4yr)	27	27	25
College Bound (2yr)	39	52	26
Vocational School	3	9	6
Military	4	4	1
Work	6	5	7
Misc.	16	-	-
Graduating	88%	90%	90%
Dropping out of School	6%	9%	9%

Our Students grades 9-12 2006-2007
Native American	0.6%	Smallest Class	8
African American	1.1%	Largest Class	60
Asian	1.7%	Average Class	21
Hispanic	3.9%
Caucasian	91.8%

Average GPA By Class
	2006-2007		2005-2006		2004-2005
	GPA	Honor Roll	GPA	Honor Roll	GPA	Honor Roll
9th	2.45	26%	2.67	34%	2.36	27%
10th	2.80	32%	2.66	30%	2.62	30%
11th	2.69	43%	2.68	34%	2.82	38%
12th	2.60	45%	2.80	41%	3.11	44%
Average School GPA	2.62		2.70		2.72
Average Honor Roll	35%		35%		35%

2006-2007 10th Grade WASL
		% Not Tested	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	LCHS Meeting Standard	State Wide Meeting Standard
Reading	07'	7.6%	10.8%	25%	59.2%	84.6%	80.6%
	06'	0%	7.8%	33%	55.3%	88.3%	81.9%

Math	07'	6.1%	25.2%	36.6%	22%	58.5%	50.2%
	06'	0%	27.8%	38.1%	16.5%	54.6%	51%

Writing	07'	10%	5.9%	28.8%	58.5%	87.6%	83.6%
	06'	0%	9.8%	33.3%	53.9%	87.3%	79.7%

College Tests
SAT
Average Writing Scores	2006	2007
Our School	500	508
Washington State	511	510
United States	497	494

Average Critical Reading Scores	2006	2007
Our School	524	510
Washington State	527	526
United States	503	502

Average Math Scores	2006	2007
Our School	509	501
Washington State	532	531
United States	518	515

Knowledge Bowl	Football	Volleyball
Dance Team	Girls Soccer	Boys Soccer
FBLA*	Cross Country	Softball
Boys Basketball	Track	Yearbook
Girls Basketball	Baseball	VICA**
Cheerleading	Wrestling	Science Club
Weight Club	Honor Society	FCCLA***
Equestrian	Boys Golf	Girls Golf