Education
Dublin is home to six Elementary Schools, two Middle schools an the two following public highschools administered by the Dublin Unified School District.
- Dublin High School, located on Village Parkway, as of September 2011 Dublin High School had 1,658 students and a faculty of 91. Dublin High School's API (Academic Performance Index) in 2011 was 879 (a 12-point increase over 2010) and graduation rate in 2011 was 97.47% (up from 96.16% in 2010). Dublin High School's UC admission rate for 2008-9 was 84%. Dublin High is nearing the completion of a $120M renewal project funded by Bond Measure 'C' and will have a capacity for 2,500 students when the renewal project is complete in 2012-13. The principal is Mrs. Carol Shimizu. Dublin High School was included in Newsweek's 2010 List of America's Top Public High Schools.
- Valley High School, is the continuation school in the Dublin Unified School District, it has around 120 students and 10 teachers. It is one of only 2 continuation schools in the Tri-Valley area. Some students come from as far as Oakland to attend the school. Valley High School was named a Model Continuation School by the California State Board of Education in 2010.
Dublin is also home to the following private schools:
- Valley Christian Schools, a ministry of Valley Christian Center, is located just west of Dublin Blvd and San Ramon Rd in Dublin California, is a 1,300 student Christian prep school comprising Valley Christian Preschool, Valley Christian Elementary School, Valley Christian Junior High and Valley Christian Senior High.
- Quarry Lane School, a non-parochial K-12 school. Quarry Lane School has two other branches in the neighboring city of Pleasanton, CA. Quarry Lane School offers an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma program at the high school level.
- St. Raymond School, Catholic school. Ranges from grades K-8
- St. Philip Lutheran School. Preschool & grades K-8
Read more about this topic: Dublin, California
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches—enduring loneliness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)