Students
As of February 2011, 58% of students were Caucasian, 24% Asian or Pacific Islander, 8% Hispanic, 0% American Indian, 1% Black, and 7% fit into multiple categories. 21% are on free or reduced lunch, 14% are eligible for special education, and 1% are enrolled in ESL. 31% were enrolled in TAG in middle or elementary school, significantly higher than the 11% district average. The state of Oregon has consistently rated SST "outstanding" in its annual report card.
The average SAT score was 602 in critical reading, 620 in math, and 569 in writing. Of the 41 graduating students in 2005, 38 graduated with their Certificate of Initial Mastery.
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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
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