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Magnet School
Houston Independent
School District
School Profile
2015-2016
Michael McDonough
Principal
5100 Maple Street
Bellaire, TX 77401
(713) 667-2064
www. Bellaire.org
CEEB School Code
440557
Bellaire High School
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100-­‐90
IB, AP, Pre-­‐ AP, Honors
College Prep, Academic
89-­‐80
79-­‐75
74-­‐70
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GPA Quartiles, Class of 2014 Ethnicity of Bellaire High School 42% 24% White st 1 4.96 -­‐ 3.88 2nd 3.87 – 3.1 3rd 3.09 – 2.30 4th 2.29 – 0.33 2014 Mean SAT Scores Bellaire High School Asian 14% 20% Black Hispanic 2015-­‐-­‐-­‐2016 Enrollment Total Student Body 3,630 850 Senior Class Junior Class 920 Sophomore Class 927 Freshman Class 933 Extracurricular Ac@vi@es Bellaire High School offers a wide range of extracurricular acGviGes through compeGGve sports, academically-­‐-­‐-­‐oriented compeGGons and approximately 110 clubs and organizaGons. T e x a s P u b l i c Schools Na@onal Public School Cr. Reading 507 477 496 Math WriGng 529 498 499 461 514 488 In April 2015 the SAT was offered free of charge to all HISD juniors during a school day, expanding the scope of the SAT test-­‐takers in Bellaire’s comprehensive student body. 2014 Mean ACT Scores English Math Reading Science Composite Bellaire 24.6 25.5 24.8 24.3 24.9 Texas 19.8 21.4 21.1 21.0 20.9 Na@onal 20.3 20.9 21.3 20.8 21.0 2015 Na@onal Merit 14 NaGonal Merit Finalists 25  NaGonal Merit Semifinalists 31 NaGonal Merit Commended 5 NaGonal Merit Scholar 5 NaGonal Hispanic Scholars Advanced Coursework Offered IB, AP, Pre-­‐-­‐-­‐AP or Honors Courses: English 1-­‐-­‐-­‐4 MathemaGcs Algebra I Geometry Algebra II Pre-­‐-­‐-­‐Calculus StaGsGcs AB Calculus BC Calculus IB Math Science Biology Chemistry Physics Environmental Science Social Studies World History U.S. History U.S. Government ComparaGve Government Micro/
Macroeconomic Fine Arts Art 2-­‐-­‐-­‐4 Art History Music Theory Foreign Languages Spanish 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 French 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 German 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 M. Chinese 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Japanese 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 LaGn 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Hebrew 2-­‐-­‐-­‐
5 Hindi 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Russian 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Arabic 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Italian 2-­‐-­‐-­‐5 Other Computer Science Debate 1-­‐-­‐-­‐4 Newspaper 2-­‐-­‐-­‐4 Uniquely, most of our IB and AP courses are combined, which prepares the students to test in either program. From the class of 2015, ____ students earned the full IB Diploma. Dual Credit Courses Bellaire High School, in cooperaGon with Houston Community College, offers dual credit courses in English 4 (freshman college English), Business InformaGon Management, Web Mastering and Design, Computer Graphics, and AccounGng. Approximately 250 students per year earn both high school and college credit in these courses. 2015 AP Scholars 60 NaGonal AP Scholars 188 AP Scholars with DisGncGon 68 AP Scholars with Honor 156 AP Scholars 2014 AP Testing Data Subject Subject Grand Total English Language English Literature World History United States History Human Geography Macroeconomics Microeconomics U.S. Government European History Computer Science A Psychology Statistics Chemistry Biology Environmental Science Physics 1 Physics C: Mechanics Spanish Literature Calculus AB Calculus BC Spanish Language Chinese Language French Language German Language Italian Language Japanese Language Art History Music Theory Studio Art: 2-­‐-­‐-­‐D Design Studio Art: Drawing Total Exams 2,531 212 153 159 329 37 216 46 189 % of 3,4,5 78% 80% 86% 87% 71% 89% 87% 93% 71% 19 53 153 112 67 96 133 107 37 14 79 98 90 36 12 6 29 4 10 10 8 6 84% 70% 81% 93% 70% 85% 56% 47% 92% 100% 80% 89% 96% 92% 75% 100% 86% 100% 80% 60% 100% 100%