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Hillsdale High School
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Opened to students in 1955, Hillsdale High School is a four-year comprehensive high school serving approximately 1200 students largely from San Mateo and Foster City. As winner of the 1955 American Institute of Architect’s School Design award, Hillsdale was the prototype for school buildings in the Bay Area. The campus features indoor/outdoor passages, landscaped courtyards lined with students’ lockers and classrooms brightened by skylights. In 2000, a bond measure was passed to update and renovate the HHS facilities. Renovations are currently underway.
In 1993 the U.S. Department of Education recognized Hillsdale as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, one of only 260 in the United States. In 1990 Hillsdale received the “Best of San Mateo County” award from the San Mateo Times, and in 1987 Hillsdale was selected as the California Distinguished School nominee for San Mateo County. In January 1999, Hillsdale was approved by the State Board of Education to become a Digital High School. In 2001 Hillsdale became Stanford University’s School of Education’s first Professional Development School. In 2002 the U.S. Department of Education awarded Hillsdale a Smaller Learning Communities Planning Grant. Hillsdale takes pride in these recognitions and in our tradition of creating an environment that welcomes and challenges every person to learn and grow. Maintaining this environment requires a strong commitment from students, parents, and teachers to work closely in an effort to create a true educational community. Supporting these traditions is the philosophy that all students can and will be successful learners in a school which holds high standards of expectations; maintains a positive school climate free from unnecessary distractions; and provides a closed campus environment which is safe, orderly, and attractive.
Ninety-eight percent of the students at Hillsdale plan to continue on to higher education upon graduation; forty nine percent attend four-year colleges. In most of the past ten years there has been at least one National Merit Scholarship finalist. The graduating class of 2002 earned scholarships and awards with a value over the next four years of nearly $1,092,000.
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