Foothill Technology High School - Ventura, California/CA

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Foothill Technology High School

100 Day Rd., Ventura, CA, 93003 -

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Definition of Terms

Foothill Technology High School

School Level

High school

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Ventura County, CA

Awards

Blue Ribbon School – Selected in 2006

Students & Faculty

Total Students

893 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

32 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 255 students

Grade 10 - 236 students

Grade 11 - 224 students

Grade 12 - 178 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:28

1:23

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	2%	3%
% Asian	5%	8%
% Hispanic	18%	39%
% Black	1%	9%
% White	70%	36%
% Unknown	4 %	5%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

30%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Ventura Unified School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	29	7
Number of Students Managed	17,535 students	3,960 students
District Total Revenue	$152,636,000	$37,604,000
District Expenditure	$161,778,000	$39,520,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,705	$9,496
District Expenditure / Student	$9,226	$9,980
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Foothill High's journalism school goes paperless (Ventura County Star)
posted on November 4, 2009 at 07:04:02 pm
They’re the next generation of journalists and already their idea of a school newspaper is much different than that of their parents — it doesn’t involve paper. Today marks one month since the students in Melissa Wantz’s journalism class at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura launched their all-online school newspaper, The Foothill Dragon Press. Perhaps the sole online-only school paper ...
Jesse Brown earns Eagle Scout award for greenhouse project (Ventura County Star)
posted on October 27, 2009 at 02:04:38 am
Jesse Brown, 16, of Boy Scout Troop 143 in Ventura received his Eagle Scout award in a Court of Honor ceremony June 28 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The award was presented by his older twin brothers, Chris and Tom, who also are Eagle Scouts. The Court of Honor was led by master of ceremonies Kevin Corse, Jesse’s Cub Scout pack leader, who in 2004 presented him with the Arrow of Light award ...
Teens aim for civil health reform debate at town hall meeting (Ventura County Star)
posted on October 23, 2009 at 07:05:56 am
After watching the adults’ behavior during the healthcare reform town hall meetings this summer, the debate team at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura decided it could do better. “With all the healthcare talk going on, we haven’t seen a civilized argument anywhere,” said team member Aron Egelko, 14. With about 25 parents watching, the students held their own healthcare debate Friday ...
Local students improve test scores, but fail to meet federal targets (Ventura County Star)
posted on September 16, 2009 at 01:21:49 am
Most Ventura County schools improved their student test scores this year, but about half still failed to meet increasingly tough federal standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act, according to results released Tuesday. Most Ventura County schools improved their student test scores this year, but about half still failed to meet increasingly tough federal standards set by the No Child Left ...
High school kids study engineering 4 weeks at CSUCI (Ventura County Star)
posted on July 26, 2009 at 07:10:25 am
Foothill High School student Maxwell Trainoff, above, places a water bottle in a tray suspended from a bridge he and a partner made from spaghetti in a Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation Program contest. At left, student Guadalupe Ortiz watches another bridge test.

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Foothill Technology High School is a high school located on 100 Day Road in Ventura, California. It has been a California Distinguished School since 2005 and won the National Blue Ribbon Award in 2006.
Foothill Technology High School was opened in 2000 to alleviate the overcrowding at the city's two existing high schools (Buena High School and Ventura High School). The school has been, since its inception, a magnet school.
The school's testing scores have reached an API of 896 in 2006, the 16th highest score among high schools in the State of California, and the highest in Ventura County. In 2007, Foothill Technology High School scored 904 on the API exams.
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