Dysart High School

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Dysart High School (commonly DHS) is a coeducational public secondary school in El Mirage, Arizona, United States, serving students in grades 11–12. Dysart High School is accredited by .

[edit] History

As of the 2007-08 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1505 students and had 81 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 18.6. The total faculty of the school is 109; (81 teachers, 15 teachers aides, 4 administrators, and 9 professional staff).

A school has a "site council", which consists of two school administrators, two non-certified employees, two teachers, two parents, one member of the community, and two students. The responsibilities of this council are to facilitate school improvement, student achievement, school safety, student discipline, and communication with the community.

[edit] Academics

The school has been designated by the Arizone Learns Achievement Profile as "Performing Plus".^[1]

Signature Programs include Automotive Technology, Drafting Technology, Early Childhood Education, Financial Services, Information Technology, JROTC, and Nursing.

The school has a graduation rate of 97%, and awards over $700,000 in scholarships annually. In addition the school received over $600,000 in a 21st Century Grant and nearly $100,000 in a Gear-up grant; this money is used to fund mentoring, tutoring, summer enrichment and parental involvement programs.

[edit] Programs Offerred

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• Advanced Placement and Honors Programs
• Human/ Social Service Careers Programs
• Comprehensive College Bound Programs
• Comprehensive Fine/ Performing Arts Programs
• School-to-career Programs/ Teacher Cadet
• Read180 Computer Labs
• Army JROTC
• Auto Shop
• Business/ Community College Partnerships with dual-enrollment

[edit] Extracurricular activities

• Key Club
  • The school's Key Club received designation at the top school internationally dealing with partners in service, and was awarded the Diamond Level Distinguished Key CLub Award for community service. It has been on of the top 4 key clubs internationally since 1990.
• Newspaper and Yearbook club
  • The Dysart Premiere newspaper and the El Demonio yearbook both received a National Silver Award from the Columbia Press Association along with numerous state awards. The newspaper also received a National Scholastic Press Association Award.
• Unitown
• Army JROTC
• Future Teachers of America
• Music
• Band
• Drama
• Choir
• Interscholastic Athletics
  • Baseball, Basketball - Boys, Basketball - Girls, Cross Country - Boys, Cross Country - Girls, Football, Golf - Boys, Golf - Girls, Soccer - Boys, Softball, Swimming - Boys, Swimming - Girls, Tennis - Boys, Tennis - Girls, Track - Boys, Track - Girls, Volleyball - Boys, Volleyball - Girls, Wrestling, and Spiritlines.
  • Conference 4A, Skyline Division, Region II^[3]
• National Honor Society
• Criminal Justice Club
• Ambassador Club
• Student Government
• Close-up

[edit] Community and Social Services

The school offers free and reduced price breakfast and lunch programs, counseling services, a social worker, health servies, a school psyschologist, job placement services, crisis intervention programs, gear-up program/title 1, peer mediation, peer tutors, and homeless student resources.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official school website
• Band Website

• Dysart High School is at coordinates 33°35′15″N 112°20′31″E / 33.587465, --112.341809 (Dysart High School)Coordinates: 33°35′15″N 112°20′31″E / 33.587465, --112.341809 (Dysart High School)