Mission of San Mateo Middle College
The San Mateo Middle College is an alternative education collaboration between the San Mateo Union High School District and College of San Mateo. Middle College, made up of students of diverse backgrounds, serves students whose needs are not being met by the traditional high school. Middle College also gives students an opportunity to achieve high school and college academic success, to explore and pursue vocational and career aspirations, and to prepare themselves for future college experiences in a supportive, academically-challenging environment.
Goals of San Mateo Middle College
The goals of San Mateo Middle College include
- helping students adequately prepare themselves for college.
- helping students adequately prepare themselves for a career.
- exposing students to career opportunities and courses not available at typical high schools.
- providing students the support services needed to be successful in high school and college courses.
- giving students a solid foundation for life as a college student.
- emphasizing that college can serve all students.
- giving underrepresented minority students an opportunity to pursue higher education.
The mission of the San Mateo Union High School District is to challenge and motivate each student to achieve full potential as a responsible member of our diverse community, in a safe learning environment that promotes intellectual growth, health, creativity, and respect for self and others.
Mission of College of San Mateo
College of San Mateo, the first community college in San Mateo County, is an open-access, student-focused, teaching and learning institution which serves the diverse educational, economic, social and cultural needs of its students and the community. By offering comprehensive, quality programs and services and by measuring student learning, College of San Mateo educates students to participate successfully in a changing world.
Middle College History
The concept for Middle College High School was developed in 1974 under the joint auspices of the New York City Board of Education and LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. The program spread to other parts of the country and in the last decade, Middle College programs have been implemented successfully at . . .
- El Centro Middle College, Dallas, TX
- Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA
- Cañada College, Redwood City, CA
- Grossmont Middle College High School, San Diego, CA
- San Jose City College (ACCEL)
- Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA
- Middle College at West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
- DeAnza Middle College, Cupertino, CA
- Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
- Middle College High School at Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, TN
- Middle College High School at San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
- Academy of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
- The High School at Moorpark College, CA
- MCHS at Seattle Central CC, Seattle, WA
- Seattle MCHS system
- Mott MCHS, Flint, MI
- Mission Middle College, Santa Clara, CA
- Los Angeles Harbor Teacher's Prep Academy, Wilmington, CA
The San Mateo Middle College program in a member in the 30-school Middle College National Consortium, based in New York.
More information is available on the California Community College Chancellor's Office website at http://www.cccco.edu/