Mission Statement

Carondelet High School, founded and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, provides quality Catholic education in a caring environment. Carondelet educates, challenges, and enables young women to integrate gospel values, to intelligently apply these values to their lives, and to reflect these values through leadership and service to the greater community.

School Characteristics

Carondelet High School is a four-year Catholic high school serving young women of Contra Costa County. Since its founding in 1965, Carondelet has carried on a proud tradition of Christian community and academic excellence.

Students are offered a full college preparatory curriculum. Our focus is a single-sex, comprehensive educational program designed to prepare women for leadership and service. On the junior and senior level, Carondelet and DeLa Salle, an adjacent Catholic boys' school, combine course offerings.

Co-curricular offerings include campus ministry, drama, honor societies, interscholastic and intramural sports, a literary newsletter, multicultural club, music, peer tutoring, speech and debate, student government and yearbook, and community service. Over 90% of our seniors are involved in community service.

The Community

The campus is located thirty miles east of San Francisco, making it accessible to many cultural and educational facilities. The student population of about 800 provides a rich diversity reflecting the cultural, ethnic and socio-economic realities of the East Bay.

Serving the Community

One of the learning expectations for CHS students is to live out the CSJ charism of “service to the dear neighbor.” From the class of 2009, 161 out of 212 seniors received the President’s Student Service Challenge Award for completing at least 100 hours of community service in their junior and senior years, although community service is not a graduation requirement. Carondelet was honored in 2008 as the National Role Model School for the Jefferson Awards-Deloitte Youth Service Initiative.

Financial Aid

Currently about twenty-three percent of CHS students receive a total of nearly $1,000,000 in financial assistance. Carondelet funds both work grant programs and need-based scholarships.

Curriculum

Carondelet students must complete 240 credits for graduation. Requirements include: Religious Studies and English 40 credits, mathematics and social science 30 credits; laboratory science 20 credits; physical education/health 15 credits; visual and performing arts 15 credits.

For AP and honors classes students must meet GPA or course requirements and are limited to the number they taken each year.

AP U.S. History	AP Calculus	AP Spanish
AP Government	AP Statistics	AP Psychology
AP English Language & Composition	AP Biology	AP Studio Art
AP Physics	Biology Honors	Pre-Calculus Honors
AP English Literature & Composition	AP French	Chemistry Honors
AP Latin	Physics Honors	Algebra 1 Honors
Algebra 2 Honors	Geometry Honors	AP Environmental Science

 

Grading System

GPA: Grades are weighted for honors and AP classes.
Class rank: Calculated on the basis of the weighted cumulative GPA 

A	94-100	C	74-76
A-	90-93	C-	70-73
B+	87-89	D+	67-69
B	84-86	D	64-66
B-	80-83	D-	60-63
C+	77-79	F	59 or below

 

Statistics 2009

AP:	Of the 123 students who took 357 exams, 81% scored 3, 4 or 5.
National Merit:	Commended Students 11 Hispanic Scholars 5

 

Accreditation and Membership

Western Association of Schools & Colleges
Western Catholic Education Association
National Catholic Education Association

Class of 2009
SAT Reasoning (95% of class tested)
	CHS Mean	National Mean*
Critical reading	566	498
Math	545	499
Writing	578	499
ACT Assessment (73% of class tested)
Composite score	24.6	20.9
Four year college 88%
Two year college 12%
Total college matriculation 100%
*represents national mean for females

College Matriculations

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