MONTEREY HIGHLANDS SCHOOL

'Monterey Highlands School' is an elementary school in the Alhambra Unified School District, located at 400 Casuda Canyon Drive, Monterey Park, California, 91754.

Contents

Academics

Location

Student Body

School uniforms

External Links

Sources

Academics

Monterey Highlands School is one of the top-performing elementary schools in the Alhambra Unified School District. The API score for 2006 grew thirty four points from 817 to 851, giving Highlands the third-highest API score, behind Ynez and Brightwood elementary schools.

Location

Monterey Highlands school lies nestled at the bottom of one of the rolling hills of Monterey Park. This idyllic location surrounds the campus with vivid greenery, towering pine trees, and tall grasses, contributing to a feeling of tranquility, and communion with nature.

Student Body

Monterey Highlands School serves a diverse body of students from the Highlands and Downtown areas of Monterey Park. The population is broken down to about 64% Asian, 31% Hispanic, 4% Caucasian, and 1% African American.
Students at Highlands strive to out-perform and out-smart their cross-hill rival Brightwood School.
Highlands is known for excellent athletes, who mainly play for Mark Keppel High School, after they graduate from Middleschool.

School uniforms

Students in kindergarten to eighth grade are required to wear school uniforms [1].
The policy, which applied to the Alhambra School District, began in September 1996. The policy remained after the consolidation of ASD and AHSD, with the policy applying to all Kindergarten through 8th grade students.

External Links

★ Nguyen's Kindergarten-2 Classroom page

★ Stephanie Yoon's Kindergarten-4 Classroom page

★ Huang's 7th Grade Classroom page

★ Hua's 8th Grade Classroom page

Sources

★ Official site of Monterey Highlands School

★ Alhambra Unified School District

★ California Department of Education API reports

★ School Demographic Characteristics