Lick-Wilmerding High School is a college-preparatory high school located in San Francisco, California, United States.
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History
Lick-Wilmerding High School was founded on September 21, 1874 as the California School of Mechanical Arts by a trust from James Lick. George Merrill was hired to manage the school as the first director, and Lick, as the school was informally known, officially opened in January, 1895. George Merrill was the director of Lick until 1939, and later also the director of the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts and the Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls, which were both located immediately adjacent to the Lick campus at 17th Street & Potrero Avenue in the Mission District. In the early 1950s, The California School of Mechanical arts and the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts merged to become Lick-Wilmerding High School. The Lux School later closed, and its students joined Lick-Wilmerding. Lick-Wilmerding High School moved to a new campus at 755 Ocean Avenue in 1955.
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Academics
Curriculum
Each student must be enrolled in a minimum of six five-unit courses per semester, regardless of grade level. A total of 30 units per semester are required. In keeping with over a century of LWHS tradition, every student is required to complete technical arts courses (such as wood, metal, jewelry, or electronics).
Historically, LWHS has been known to offer technical courses that other independent schools in the Bay Area do not offer. Some of these include Metal, Woodworking, Robotics, Electronics and Jewelry. LWHS also has several year-long Architecture courses and an introduction to design course, entitled Contemporary Media and Art that is compulsory for all freshmen.
LWHS' Performing Arts Department has a choir, jazz band, orchestra, two a cappella groups, one-acts, and musicals. There is also a dance program comprising four classes: Dance 1, Dance 2, Dance Ensemble, and Dance Company.
Community
The school's 490 students in grades 9 through 12 reflect the LWHS tradition of a strong commitment to cultural and social diversity. The student body is 3% African-American, 16% Asian-American, 48% Caucasian, 6% Latino, 26% multiracial, and 1% other.
Over the past four years, 95 students have earned recognition in the National Merit Scholarship Program; 37 have been named Finalists. In addition, three students have been honored as a Finalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program and four students have been selected for the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Six students from the class of 2006 were National Merit Semifinalists, and all became Finalists. From the class of 2007, 15 students have attained National Merit or National Achievement Semifinalist status.
Of the 59 full-time teachers, administrators, and program directors, 42 have master's degrees and four have doctorates. Of the eight part-time teachers, all have master's degrees. Performing, technical, and fine arts teachers have extensive work and performance experience.
Test scores
In 2014, the Huffington Post reported that students at LWHS had the 8th highest SAT scores in the nation.
Averages for the class of 2015:
ACT
- 30.3 (35 takers)
SAT Reasoning Test
- Critical Reading: 677
- Math: 682
- Writing: 683 (94 takers)
SAT Subject Tests (and number of test takers)
- Biology Ecology: 593 (7)
- Biology Molecular: 645 (2)
- Chemistry: 689 (25)
- Chinese with Listening: 587 (3)
- English Literature: 665 (71)
- French: 651 (10)
- French with Listening: 710 (1)
- Korean with Listening: 800 (1)
- Math Level I: 599 (13)
- Math Level II: 708 (73)
- Physics: 672 (9)
- Spanish: 685 (6)
- Spanish with Listening: 695 (6)
- US History: 595 (6)
- World History: 640 (1)
Admissions
On average, Lick-Wilmerding receives approximately 900 applications each year for 128 seats in the incoming 9th grade class. Full Tuition for the 2015-2016 school year is $42,438, with Flexible Tuition ranging from $1,000 to $42,438. This includes books, lunch, and all course materials and supplies
Programs
From the website:
Aim High
Aim High was founded in 1986, with 50 students and 12 teachers, on the campus of Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.
The program has evolved into a collaboration with several outstanding educational institutions: Lick-Wilmerding High School, The Urban School of San Francisco, the San Francisco Unified School District and St. Paul's Episcopal School. Additional partners include the Bay Area Teachers Center, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Exploratorium."
The Bay Area Teachers Center
"The Bay Area Teachers Center, located within Lick-Wilmerding High School, offers a unique one-year secondary school single subject teaching credential in partnership with San Francisco State University. See the Bay Area Teachers Center (BATC) website at bayareateacherscenter.org"
Extracurricular activities
Technical Arts Programs
"Remaining faithful to its century-old history as a pioneering institution in the technical arts, LWHS offers a unique collection of shop classes. This is an important part of the school's mission of developing in young people those "qualities of the head, heart, and hands" which will serve them well in college and in life.
The department's courses seek to provide a basic understanding of the qualities and characteristics of the materials in the Glass, Electronics, Machine, Jewelry and Wood Shops, as well as to foster an appreciation of the design principles introduced in the Drafting & Design course. LWHS students learn to work conceptually and physically, moving from theory to practice in order to bring the designs of the mind into the physical world.
The faculty members work closely together, often stepping across conventional boundaries. They are committed not only to educating young people but also to furthering their own learning and to exploring their own creativity. Their common objectives include efficient use of technologies, effective problem solving, creative expression, aesthetic appreciation of craft and design, and personal empowerment through self-confidence and self-esteem."
Courses
- Metal Shop: Fabrications, Advanced Fabrications, Jewelry/Metal Art, Advanced Jewelry/Metal Art
- Glass Working: Glass Foundations, Advanced Glass
- Wood Shop: Woodworking I, Advanced Woodworking, Wood Carving
- Electronics: Electronics Foundations, Advanced Electronics
Athletics
- Fall Teams
- Boys and Girls Cross Country
- Boys Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Frosh/Soph Soccer
- Girls Varsity, Junior Varsity and Frosh/Soph Volleyball
- Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity Tennis
- Boys and Girls Water Polo
- Winter Teams
- Boys Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Frosh/Soph Basketball
- Girls Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Frosh/Soph Basketball
- Boys and Girls Wrestling
- Spring Teams
- Boys and Girls Track and Field
- Boys and Girls Badminton
- Boys Varsity Lacrosse
- Girls Varsity Lacrosse
- Varsity Baseball
- Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity Soccer
- Boys and Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity Swimming
- Boys Varsity and Junior Varsity Tennis
- Golf
Clubs
Lick-Wilmerding offers more than forty student-led clubs and organizations that allow students to become engaged in their environment and connect with others who share similar interests.
Awards
Alternet.com has also designated Lick-Wilmerding as the 6th top high school in the United States utilizing Green Architecture [1]
California Music Education Association Honors
- Chamber Singers: Unanimous Superior, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
- Big Band: Unanimous Excellent, two years running, and Unanimous Superior, two years before.
- Advanced Jazz Combo: Unanimous Superior, for four years
- Orchestra: Unanimous Superior, for one year
Anaheim Heritage Festival Honors
- 2004: Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra: Gold
Notable alumni
- Albert Overhauser - National Medal of Science winner (class of '42)
- C. J. Goodell - Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District (1945-1953)
- Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner- 2008 Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer
- Laura Sullivan - Investigative Correspondent for NPR, winner of three Peabody Awards
- Teresa Strasser - radio and television personality, writer
- Francis Tapon - Author, public speaker, global nomad
- Gerek Meinhardt - Fencer at the 2008 Summer Olympics, youngest American Olympian fencer
- Frederick Seitz - Physicist, National Medal of Science winner
- Jonathon Keats - Conceptual artist
- John Lane Bell - mathematician and philosopher
- Luca Iaconi-Stewart - model aircraft builder
- Dan the Automatorsource - DJ/Producer
- Noe Venable - singer, song-writer
- Andres Amador - artist
- Kate Weare - dancer / choreographer / founder and artistic director of Kate We are Company
See also
- San Francisco County high schools
References
External links
- Lick-Wilmerding Website
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