Whitney High School
Whitney High School is a public high school in Rocklin, California, a city in the northern Sacramento metropolitan area in southern Placer County. Whitney High School is one of two high schools in the Rocklin Unified School District, the other being Rocklin High School. Whitney is the district's newest educational facility, opening in 2005 to freshmen and sophomores; the school's first freshmen graduated at the end of the 2008–09 school year. Whitney was named a California Distinguished School the following school year.
The school uses a modified block schedule program alternating four periods every two days to educate its students. Students are subjected to a total of eight different periods. Students are also taught through a standards-based essential skills program, in which students must demonstrate mastery of all skills deemed necessary in a class before credits can be earned; additionally, students must achieve a grade higher than C by the end of the year, as grades lower than C equate to a "No mark," and the course must be retaken. The high school had twenty-three clubs at the end of the 2009–10 school year, including an award-winning school yearbook, a school newspaper, and an Emmy-winning broadcast program.
Whitney High School provides a college preparatory curriculum in which students must complete four years of language arts, three and a half years of social studies, three years of mathematics and science, three years of physical education, and one year of foreign languages, technology, and applied sciences, and visual and performing arts (VAPA). One semester of health education and ten semesters of electives are also required for graduation, along with twenty-five hours of community service.
Website: https://whs.rocklinusd.org
Address: 701 Wildcat Blvd, Rocklin, CA 95765, United States
Phone: 9166 326 500
Fax: 916 435-2542
