2009-2010 Pensacola Catholic High School Profile

SCHOOL

Pensacola Catholic High School is a Catholic, co-educational secondary school owned and operated by the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee.  Established in 1941 in downtown Pensacola, Catholic High has been at its present location since 1958.  Catholic High is a member of the National Catholic Educational Association, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the Florida High School Activities Association. All students are admitted on a non-discriminatory basis.  Catholic High School received the U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon School Award as a Recognized School of Excellence in October of 1993.

Enrollment: 560 students in grades nine through twelve.

Accreditation:  Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.


FACULTY

31 full time, 8 part-time; 41% with Master's Degree or above.  Student teacher ratio is 14:1.

ACADEMIC LEVELS

Pensacola Catholic High School uses a four-level educational program. Each of the four levels indicates an ability group with the following characteristics.

Level                Description

  H                   Honors (AP and Dual Enrollment courses offered)
  ACP                Accelerated College Prep
  CP                  College Prep
  G                   General Studies

GRADING SCALE

Computation        Points
A     90-100          4.0
B     80-89            3.0
C     70-79            2.0
D     60-69            1.0
F      Below 60       0.0

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

l/2 unit of credit is issued for each semester course passed. One credit is awarded in a year course for which the final average is a passing grade. 26 academic credits are required for graduation, with credit distribution as follows:

  English                    4
  Social Studies          3.5
  Religion                   4
  Physical Education    1
  Math                       4
  Science                   3
  Fine Arts                 1
  Computer Science    1
  Electives                  4.5


CLASS RANK

Students are numerically ranked in relation to all classmates on the basis of weighted GPA's. A weighted GPA is calculated according to the Escambia County School System formula: for each semester an honors course is taken and passed, a factor of 0.025 is added to the unweighted GPA.

CLASS OF 2009 PROFILE

Number of Graduates                    141
SAT Mean Verbal Score                  537
SAT Mean Math Score                    541
ACT Mean Composite Score            23.6
Percent taking the SAT & the ACT   61/92

Florida Academic Scholars             42
Florida Medallion Scholars             56

Percent Continuing Education        98


Members of the Class of 2009 were offered in excess of $9,300,000 in Scholarship and Grant Money.


SOME UNIVERSITIES TO WHICH RECENT CHS GRADUATES HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED

United States Naval Academy
United States Military Academy at West Point
United States Air Force Academy
Dartmouth College
Yale University
Wake Forest University
MIT
University of Notre Dame
Loyola University
Georgia Tech University
Florida State University
University of Florida
Emory University
Florida Institute of Technology
Vanderbilt University
Birmingham-Southern College
Georgetown University
Catholic University
College of William and Mary
Tulane University
Spring Hill College
University of North Carolina
Johns Hopkins
New York University (NYU)

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