When you join University High School, you join a community - a community of learners and a community of people dedicated to shared values.
We know that the only way a community is built is by spending time together. Every Monday through Thursday, we gather together for 15 minutes to share announcements, questions and concerns. Every Friday, we join together for an hour-long assembly.
This may sound rather unremarkable but it truly is not. This shared time is when members of the community: all the students, all the teachers, all the staff members – become more than just a collection of individuals coming to the same school - it is when we begin to become a family.
We never really know what will come out at a Community Meeting. For example, at a recent community meeting, we had several announcements of lost items and of upcoming sports events. Finally, one student rose to tell the group that friends of his father had just died in a plane accident. He said that it was a powerful reminder of the shortness of our time and that if any of us had people we loved but haven't talked to in a while, to go and talk to them soon.
This was an incredible 15 minutes, but not that rare. Students regularly share things of importance to them at these meetings. Sometimes these things are happy and sometimes moving. A testament to community is the quality of the information it shares and the openness with which it can share it. The Community Meeting continually builds and reveals our community.
We think you will be impressed by the closeness of a community built through daily interaction and perhaps surprised by the depth of program provided by a small school.
The morning community meetings are a great way for everyone to “check in” with each other and they build a great feeling of community.
Taylor N, Class of 2007
The thing that really makes this school shine is the number of great speakers who come and talk to us. We are really inspired when such important and well-known people come here to talk with us.
Stefan L, Class of 2007
