The Preuss School UCSD

The Preuss School’s 2007 Outcomes and Distinctions

• The Preuss School’s 2007 academic performance index score of 877 places it among the top of San Diego County’s public high schools!
• The graduating classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 have all taken the mandatory California High School Exit Exam; 100% passed the Language Arts requirements and 100% passed the mathematic component.
• More than most other public high schools per capita, Preuss administered 759 Advanced Placement (AP) tests to 354 students in eleven different subjects in May 2007.
• The Preuss School “Midnight Mechanics,” our robotics team, won the FIRST Robotics Chairman’s Award in both the 2006 and 2007 regional competition.
• The Preuss School was recognized with the Title I Academic Achievement Award in both 2006 and 2007, one of the few high schools statewide to be recognized.

Class of 2007 – Preuss’s Fourth Graduating Class

• One-hundred percent of the 2007 Preuss graduates will be attending two- and four-year colleges and universities. Two students will enroll in college by way of service in the Navy and Marines.
• 96% of the graduating class of 2007 has been accepted to a 4 year college or university. The past three years it has been at 91%, a stellar number that we thought hard to surpass!
• While 62% of the graduates of 2007 were accepted to a University of California campus, 32% have actually enrolled at a UC campus for the fall semester. Twelve students or 15% of our graduates will return to the UCSD campus in the fall as freshman students.
• Eight students or 10% of the 2007 graduates will attend prestigious private universities such as Columbia, Colgate, Duke, Harvard, Vassar College, Woodbury, and the University of Southern California.
• This class of 2006 has attracted $1.25 million in private scholarships and grants!
• A record number of Preuss School students, five out of a graduating class of 78, have been designated as Gates – Millennium Scholars. They will be fully supported in college and graduate school as long as they maintain their grades and community service.
• A relatively stable trend has been identified among our 2005, 2006 and 2007 graduates - on average, 40% have declared a major in engineering, science or a health-related field.
• Congratulations to Pedro Adan—the first Preuss athlete to sign a National Letter of Intent at a Division I university! Pedro will join the San Diego State University’s men’s soccer team as a freshman this fall.