Dos Pueblos High School

“Dos Pueblos High deserves a special word of congratulations because it had the highest combined SAT scores this year, the highest combined percentage of students taking the SAT's, the highest AP scores, and the highest number of National Merit Scholarship finalists of all schools in the county, public or private.”
Bill Cirone, S. B. County Superintendent of Schools

Dos Pueblos High School is dedicated to the educational goals and objectives of Santa Barbara High School District. We recognize that every person attending this school is a unique human being entitled to an education geared to that person's needs. In order to accomplish this, we provide an educational environment in which many alternatives exist. All of our students have the opportunity to grow and mature while pursuing goals that are significant and realistic for them.

The staff at Dos Pueblos High School is committed to helping each student become someone with a strong positive self-image and give them sufficient skills to compete effectively in the world, and someone who has a desire to continue learning and who will be a responsible effective member of society.

Nestled between the mountains and the sea, west of Santa Barbara, Dos Pueblos High School was established in the Goleta Valley in 1966 and serves a diverse population of 2300 students in grades 9-12. The ethnic make up of the student body is 61% white, 29% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 2% African American, & 2% other.

DPHS enjoys the support of many individuals and parent organizations. Our PTSA is an active partner in building strong home and school communications by sending out a monthly newsletter, providing volunteers for school activities, and by raising money for academics, athletics and activities on the Dos Pueblos campus. We also have a separate school site council that meets monthly to assist in the evaluation and financial support of our educational programs. Collaboration with the University of California, Westmont College and Santa Barbara City College provide active support for our students. DPHS supports active college representative visitations; works closely with local foundations for scholarships and loans; and utilizes local counseling and social services.

A varied curriculum of academic and elective courses are available for students at DPHS. Dos Pueblos offers Advanced Placement courses in the following areas: Biology, English, French, German, Environmental Science, Calculus, European History, World History, U.S. History, American Government, Economics, Studio Art, Chemistry, Physics, Latin and Spanish.

Over 95% of our students enrolled in AP classes took one or more AP examinations.. This past year over 70% of our students passed their AP examinations. GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) classes are offered in English and Mathematics. Recently, Dos Pueblos was given approval to begin offering courses toward the attainment of the International Baccalaureate Diploma. We are the only high school in Santa Barbara County to offer the IB Diploma.

Our Regional Occupational Program provides training in 13 vocational areas with classes both on and off campus.

Our ELD program provides assistance to students developing skills in English. REACH and EXCEL classes increase the skills of our under-represented college bound students.

Many students receive college credit based on AP test results as well as earning college transferable units by attending Santa Barbara City College &/or UCSB. The graduating class of 2005 earned over $2 million in academic scholarships for continued education. Other achievements include:

• An average of 7 National Merit Finalists per year for the last 9 years. We currently have 14 Semi-Finalists; last year we had 5 Finalists.

• Our Mock Trial team has won the County competition for many years and has been in top 4 every year.

• Consistent placement as one of the top schools in the American High School Mathematics Examination.

• Our DP Economics Challenge teams have earned the Southern California competition repeatedly and have placed well in the Western Regional and National Finals.

• Our Academic Decathlon team has won the Santa Barbara County competition 4 years.

• Recognition by the University of California as one of the top visual arts high schools in California, offering a wide diversity of art courses.

• In the past two years DPHS has won four CIF Athletic Championships, and eight CIF Academic Team Championships-the most Academic Team Awards out of all the schools in the southern section are in 2005.

The table below shows the average verbal and math SAT I scores of Dos Pueblos students for the past several years. Over 55% of DP juniors and seniors take the test.

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