CAPISTRANO VALLEY HIGH

Founded in 1995, the Capistrano Valley High School Academy of Technology, Math, and Science is a challenging program intended to better serve and promote students who have demonstrated exceptional ability, interest, and/or aptitude in the areas of mathematics, science, or technology. 

Students from the Academy have attended such institutions as MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Rice, Stanford, the Naval Academy, Columbia, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCI, UCSD, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and the list goes on. Because of the Academy’s outstanding success in preparing students for admission to the country’s best colleges and universities, Capistrano Valley High School is now sanctioned to offer an International Baccalaureate Diploma program. All incoming Freshmen interested in pursuing an IB Diploma are urged to enroll in ATMS although it is not required. The Academy’s curriculum at the Freshman and Sophomore level provides the “pre-IB” support for this internationally recognized program of superior scholarship.

 

This accelerated program is designed for those students who have demonstrated exceptional ability and interest in the areas of science, math and/or technology. Students must have completed Geometry prior to the 9th grade and have met the criteria and be enrolled in Honors English I, Honors Biology and Honors Algebra II/Trig.

    

Students who are reasonably sure they will meet the requirement––completing Algebra and Geometry with a grade of B (80%) or better--should enter the ATMS course numbers via their student portal for:  

ATMS Honors Algebra II/ Trig
ATMS Honors Biology                                                                         
ATMS Honors English I
AP World History* See note below 

AP World History is recommended. However, ATMS students may elect to defer and then take either AP World History or AP European History as sophomores.  All ATMS students must take at least one of these AP social science courses. 

 

Click here for Pathways to IB Math.

 

Contact: Mr. John Kearsley, ATMS Coordinator: jdkearsley@capousd.org

Mrs. Dina Kubba, IB Coordinator: dlkubba@capousd.org