Sections

• The School
• Current Administration
• Student Activities
• Special Features
• Graduation Requirements
• Grading System/Class Ranking
• Honors Classes
• Advanced Placement (AP) Courses
• Advanced Placement (AP) Exams
• Student Expectations
• SAT Scores
• ACT Scores

The School

Agoura High School is situated in Los Angeles County just west of the San Fernando Valley. The area is a suburban, residential, high-income community. Students are from the incorporated cities of Westlake Village and Agoura Hills as well as the unincorporated area to the south in the Santa Monica Mountains. Parents are mainly employed in the professional, executive, business, art, and entertainment fields. The school, which serves grades 9-12, received a full six-year accreditation in June of 2002 from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

The student population for 2006-2007 is approximately 2250 with a projected senior class of 500. The distribution of students by ethnicity has been very consistent over the last six years and is represented by the following numbers: White - 83%, Asian - 6%, Hispanic - 6%, African-American - 1%, Filipino - 1%.

More Information:

• School Acountability Report Card (SARC)
• Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLRs)

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Current Administration

Larry Misel, Principal
Chris Regan, Assistant Principal (Activities and Technology)
Rick Naranjo, Assistant Principal (Athletics and Discipline)
Sherry Bronow, Assistant Principal (Curriculum and Instruction)

Joel Barr, Counselor
Julie Heeney, Counselor
Pat Brooks, Counselor
Linda Ordin, Counselor
Janet Svoboda, Counselor
Debbie Haro, Counselor

Debi Poppen, Student Store & Senior Activities Coordinator
Russell Stephans, Director of Activities
Jason Rosenthal, Athletic Director

Jean Gilbert-Hawkins, College and Carrer Center

Marie Gase, Registrar

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Student Activities

Agoura High School students are active in student government and leadership, fifty three clubs, drama presentations and a musical, an award-winning instrumental music program, yearbook, school newspaper, and a highly competitive interscholastic sports league. Volunteering within the community is strongly encouraged.

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Special Features

Agoura High School is on a new schedule which includes a “0” period and a Student Support period prior to classes that meet every other day for 100 minutes. The “block” schedule has been very effective in increasing the hands-on experiences of our students in lab-oriented classes and has allowed faculty to expand instructional strategies for critical thinking in the classroom. The new “0” period has allowed the school to offer an optional seven period day. The Student Support period offers academic help for all students.

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Graduation Requirements

Math - 20 credits
Health - 5 credits
Science - 20 credits
Foreign Language/ Fine Art or Practical Art (2 of 3) - 20 credits
Social Science - 35 credits
Physical Education - 20 credits
Electives - 70 credits
English - 40 credits

Total Credits: 230 Total

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Grading System/Class Ranking

Letter grades of A, B, C, D, and F are used as well as P - passed, Cr - credit, N - no mark, I - incomplete, WF - withdraw failing. Ranking includes all subjects, grades 9-12 except school service. AHS has adopted “Standards Based” instruction and assessments.

Summer school courses and failed/repeated subjects are also included in rank. Repeated courses replace fails in the calculation. School service is not calculated in G.P.A. A four-point scale is used: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0, except for certain identified Honors and Advanced Placement courses (*) which receive: A=5, B=4, C=3. Final rank at the end of the 8th semester determines valedictorian(s) and salutatorian(s).

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Honors Classes

Agoura High School offers the following honors classes:

• Biology
• English I, II
• Geometry
• Algebra II
• Spanish IV
• French IV
• Physiology
• Math Analysis
• Chemistry

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Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

Agoura High School offers the following AP classes:

• Studio Art
• English III & IV
• French V
• Spanish V
• Calculus AB
• Calculus BC
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Physics
• Statistics
• U.S. History
• American Govt.
• European History

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Advanced Placement (AP) Exams

In 2005, 341 students took 564 Advanced Placement tests. Seventy-eight percent passed with scores of three or better. The numbers of students achieving scores of three or higher on the 2005 Advanced Placement examinations are as follows:

• Art - Gen. 11
• Biology 30
• Calculus ABC 42
• Chemistry 33
• Compt Sci. A 37
• Compt Sci. AB 4
• Economics 0
• Eng. Lang./Cmp. 54
• Eng. Lit./Cmp. 21
• Euro. History 44
• French Lang. 4
• Gov./Pol. US 26
• Physics 28
• Spanish Lang. 17
• Statistics 39
• U.S. History 42

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Student Expectations

Most of Agoura High School graduates attend college. The numbers attending two and four year colleges and universities for the last nine years are:

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SAT Scores

61-67% of Agoura High School seniors take the SAT each year. The seven-year, recentered mean scores are as follows:

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ACT Scores

Composite scores for seniors over the last seven years are as follows:

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