Monterey Highlands School

Infobox Secondary school
name = Monterey Highlands School
logo =
principal = Joseph "Joe" Cash
type = Elementary School
established= 1965
grades = K-8
enrollment = 857
mascot = Golden Husky
colors = Blue and Gold
newspaper =
website = [http://156.3.74.18/montereyhighlands/ Monterey Highlands School]
city = Monterey Park
state = California
country = USA

Monterey Highlands School is an elementary school in the Alhambra Unified School District, located at 400 Casuda Canyon Drive, Monterey Park, California, 91754.

Academics

Monterey Highlands School is one of the top-performing elementary schools in the Alhambra Unified School District. The API score for 2006 grew thirty four points from 817 to 851, giving Highlands the third-highest API score, behind Ynez and Brightwood elementary schools.

Location

Monterey Highlands school lies nestled at the bottom of one of the rolling hills of Monterey Park. This idyllic location surrounds the campus with vivid greenery, towering pine trees, and tall grasses

tudent Body

Monterey Highlands School serves a diverse body of students from the Highlands and Downtown areas of Monterey Park. The population is broken down to about 64% Asian, 31% Hispanic, 4% Caucasian, and 1% African American.

School uniforms

Students in kindergarten to eighth grade are required to wear school uniforms [http://www.alhambra.k12.ca.us/documents/K-8UniformPolicy.pdf] .

The policy, which applied to the Alhambra School District, began in September 1996. The policy remained after the consolidation of ASD and AHSD, with the policy applying to all Kindergarten through 8th grade students.

Renovation

Around the beginning-middle of 2007, renovation began on the Monterey Highlands school campus. The renovation included adding a new computer lab, adding an elevator and upgrading the fire alarm system with a new alarm system. All renovation was completed towards the end of August 2007.

External links

* [http://156.3.74.18/nguyen/ Nguyen's Kindergarten-2 Classroom page]
* [http://156.3.74.18/sskwan/ Stephanie Yoon's Kindergarten-4 Classroom page]
* [http://156.3.74.18/lhuang/ Huang's 8th Grade Classroom page]
* [http://156.3.74.18/hua/ Hua's 8th Grade Classroom page]

ources

* [http://www.montereyhighlands.org/ Official site of Monterey Highlands School]
* [http://www.alhambra.k12.ca.us/ Alhambra Unified School District]
* [http://api.cde.ca.gov/APIBase2006/2006GrowthSch.aspx?allcds=19757136011076 California Department of Education API reports]
* [http://api.cde.ca.gov/APIBase2006/2006Grth_SchDem.aspx?allcds=19-75713-6011076 School Demographic Characteristics]