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 provide each student with a stimulating and challenging learning environment that promotes intellectual growth, creativity, respect for self and others, and physical and mental health. The primary goal is that all students achieve their maximum potential.
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:
- Orange Coast Middle College High School in Costa Mesa, CA
- El Centro Middle College, Dallas, TX
- Middle College High School at Santa Ana College, CA
- 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
- Truman MCHS, Chicago, IL
More information is available on the California Community College Chancellor's Office website at www.cccco.edu/divisions/ss/mchs/mchs.htm
