High School Options to Consider

Check out Everest and Summit Prep High Schools!

Summit Prep High School and Everest High School, both public schools located in Redwood City, CA have consistently achieved Gold Status on the US News and World Reports “America’s Best high Schools”, ranking among the top 25 high schools in California and top 10% of all high schools nationwide. These schools are listed on the Washington Post’s list of Most Challenging Schools in America for 2016 and 2017 for promoting rigor and college and career readiness for all of their students. Summit Prep and Everest High School are college preparatory high schools that strive to prepare a diverse student population for success in four-year undergraduate programs as thoughtful, contributing members of society. Admission is by lottery.

Offerings:

• College preparatory curriculum, with graduates achieving a 99-100% acceptance rate to 4 year colleges, including all the UC and CSU programs, and 23 out of the 50 top US ranked colleges

• Tuition-Free
• Public education in a small school setting (approximately 100 students/grade)
• Personalized learning platforms where students fulfill coursework requirements at their own pace, learning how best they learn
• Real world learning projects where students develop the life skills and habits they need to be successful in college and the workplace
• World-class teaching faculty from the nation’s top teaching programs
• Small, safe and diverse community where every student has a mentor, and is truly cared for and known
• All students take Advanced Placement courses
• After school clubs and sports programs (cross country, soccer, volleyball, basketball and baseball)

To arrange a student shadow, please contact alara@summitps.org

• Thursday, November 2nd – Open House at Everest Public High School at 7pm. Address: 455 Fifth Ave, Redwood City, CA 94063

• Tuesday, December 5th – Open House at Summit Prep at 7pm. Address: 890 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063

• Saturday, January 20th – Open House at Everest Public High School at 10am. Address: 455 Fifth Ave, Redwood City, CA 94063

Application Deadlines and Lottery Dates are as follows:

• Friday, January 26th –9th Grade Application Deadline at 3:00pm at Summit Prep and Everest.
• Friday, February 2nd–9th Grade Lottery at 9:00am at Summit Prep and Everest.

Results:

As a research based educational innovator, we are continually assessing the impact of our educational strategies, from a real time daily mission moment perspective, to assessments of college readiness as proven by college admissions, retention and graduation rates of our graduates. Please read on for more information on our results.

Regardless of the life path Summit students ultimately choose, we offer access to high- performing public schools that pave the way for them to succeed in college, career and life.

Class of 2017 Results:

- 100% of Everest seniors were accepted to 4 year colleges.

- 99% of our 415 seniors across 5 Summit campuses were accepted to 4 year colleges.

Together they received over 1200 acceptances to 194 unique colleges/ universities across the country, including

• all 9 University of California undergraduate campuses,
• all California State University campuses, and
• 23 of the top 50 colleges (according to US News and World Report).

These top schools are Boston University, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Duke, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, NYU, Northeastern, Northwestern, Rice, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, and Washington University in St. Louis.

• 35% of our graduating seniors will be first in their family to attend college
• 75% of seniors plan to attend 4 year colleges next year.
• 15% plan to attend 2-year colleges
• 10% plan to join the military, work, or take a gap year.