High Tech High -- Schools

High Tech High:
A Snapshot for 2006-7

Six schools; three high schools, two middle schools, and one elementary

Approximately 2500 students and 200 employees

100 percent of graduates have been admitted to college, 80% to four-year institutions

$45 million in real estate holdings; annual operating budget $18 million

First charter school to be authorized to credential its own teachers

Granted first statewide charter in January 2006

Schools

Featured Project: Conservation Forensics: Bushmeat DNA

The goals of the program involve developing methods to identify dried meat and fur samples using DNA isolation, amplification, sequencing and alignment techniques. Students are exposed to important theoretical and practical exercises in bioinformatics, molecular biology, forensics, international policy and conservation biology.

Featured Project: Monochromatic Self-Portraits

Shani Higgins’s eighth grade art students at High Tech Middle created "Larger than Life" Monochromatic Self-Portraits.