- Sentinel High School
- Spartan Excellence
Spartan Excellence
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"The Culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners." Bill Walsh
Joining the Spartan Family- Joining our community.
- Mission of Excellence - The quality of being outstanding.
- Becoming a part of something bigger.
- Pride & Spirit
- Partnering with you to meet the educational needs of your students.
- Transformation.
- Highest graduation rate in the sate of Montana for general population (92%) as well as Native, SES disadvantaged, and special ed.
- More college credit earned in high school than any school in MT.
- Culture of attendance.
- Rigorous Core--From Intervention to Advanced Placement & Dual Credit
- World Language
- Fine Arts: Visual, Music, Theater
- Family & Consumer Science
- Industrial Technology: Auto tech, Carpentry, Welding
- Business Marketing & DECA
- Media Arts
- STEM--Engineering & Computer Science
- Broadcasting & Spartan Live TV: MCAT partnership
- Student learning for all.
- Support for struggling learners.
- Enrichment for advanced learners.
- Relevance and rigor for all learners.
- High expectations.
- Meeting student needs.
- Learner-centered focus.
- 24 Dual Credit course opportunities
- 21.5% of students at Sentinel are enrolled in a Dual Credit class
- 2014-15 - The savings to parents of Sentinel Students taking Dual Credit classes was $217,567.00
- This savings reflects the cost of $208/credit
- Cost effective for any student wanting to attend a post-secondary institution after graduating from Sentinel
- Significant research-based benefit for the learner in terms of college acceptance, success and completion
- Advanced Placement: 14 classes 2015-16
- 17 classes 2016-17
- 33.6% Sentinel students enrolled in an Advanced Placement class
- 24.5 in 1 AP class
- 5.4 in 2 AP classes
- 2% in 3 AP classes
- 1.3% in 4 AP classes
- .4% in 5 AP classes
Teaching-Mentorship Excellence
- Highly qualified, expert teaching faculty.
- Over 20 UM Faculty Affiliates.
- PLTW Master Teacher.
- Dedicated, skilled support staff.
- 50 MHSA extra-curricular staff positions.
- 30 Sentinel staff-coaches
- Strong culture of staff attendance and support at events.
- DECA:
- 128 students - Largest in Montana, third largest in four-state area.
- Largest student group @ Sentinel.
- "At Sentinel DECA is what we do."
- Leadership, Service, Entrepreneurism.
- Total number of Spartan students in an activity - 730
- Fall - 328
- Winter - 221
- Spring 181
- Participation - Spartan Excellence!
- Increased sense of belonging and servant leadership.
- Less than 1/2 of one percent dropout rate for students in school activities.
- Increased student achievement.
- 83 of 115 Varsity Letter winners in Fall Sports Academic All-State
- Requires a 3.5 or higher GPA.
- 24 of the 83 Academic All-State winners had a perfect 4.0 GPA.
- Kindness & caring for ALL.
- Belonging for ALL.
- Servant leadership for ALL.
- Personalized learning & programming for ALL.
- A place for ALL: Visual art, music, drama, clubs, supportive groups.
- Culture of Innovation.
- Google School
- EdTech.
- STEM learning facilities
- Infrastructure.
- Supporting Innovators.
- Booster Club: Seeking parent community leadership.
- Social Media: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Blog
- Activities
- Communication
Spartan ExcellenceWE AREwhat weREPEATEDLY~do.~{EXCELLENCE,}then,is not an act,-----but a-----HABIT.Aristotle