Santa Barbara High School

Mission & Goals

Mission/Vision

Santa Barbara High School will prepare all students to be dedicated life-long learners, understanding citizens, and nurturing, healthy individuals.

School-wide Learning Goals

Every Santa Barbara High School Student is a:

Dedicated life-long learner who:

Works conscientiously to achieve his or her academic potential.
Speaks, listens, reads, writes, and thinks well in all core disciplines.
Can identify, analyze, integrate, and apply academic content standards.
Enriches his or her creative abilities, and cultural awareness through participation in and study of art, music, and ideas.
Uses technology responsibly and knowledgeably.

Outstanding citizen who:

Treats all people with dignity and respect.
Contributes time, energy, and talent to improve our community.
Accepts responsibility for personal actions, opinions, and decisions.
Plans and accomplishes goals in groups and individually.
Solves issues democratically, resolves conflict nonviolently with active listening.
Demonstrates, in daily practice, personal responsibility for creating a positive school environment and conserving resources.

Nurturing, healthy individual who:

Participates in regular physical exercise.
Avoids tobacco, drugs, alcohol, and harmful behavior to self and others.
Applies the fair-minded principles of sportsmanship in all endeavors.
Strives for nutritional, physical, and emotional well-being.
Attends school regularly, on time, and ready to learn.