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THE SCHOOL
Founded in 1952, Crystal Springs Uplands School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school located on a 10-acre suburban campus on the San Francisco peninsula. Serving grades 6-12, CSUS provides an intimate, collaborative community that encourages students to pursue their passions, explore new interests, build confidence, develop compassion and thrive in an environment of academic excellence.
With a 30% acceptance rate, CSUS enrolls 350 students from 58 elementary schools and 43 middle schools. Our student body reflects CSUS’s strong commitment to cultural, social and socioeconomic diversity. 48% of the student community identifies as students of color and our generous financial aid program awarded $2M in grants to 23% of the student body.
Crystal Springs Uplands School is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the National Association of Independent Schools,
A Better Chance and People of Color in Independent Schools, among others.
CURRICULUM
Given the rigorous academic demands of CSUS, freshmen and sophomores take five academic courses. In order to maintain a balanced courseload, juniors and seniors are strongly encouraged to take four academic courses only. Students need 18 credits total in order to graduate.
GPA AND CLASS RANK
Grade point average (GPA) is calculated using all academic courses (PE, non-AP Fine Arts and non-CSUS courses excluded) and is cumulative from the fall semester of 10th grade onward. Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors-level (HL) courses are weighted by 0.3, as are fifth academic courses taken during junior and senior years. CSUS does not rank students.
INSTRUCTION
Total student enrollment: 350 Faculty: 59
Upper school enrollment: 250 Middle school enrollment: 100
Student-Teacher Ratio: 9-1 Average class size: 14 students
Percent of faculty with advanced degree: 65%
Average number of years teaching at CSUS: 12
ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND HONORS-LEVEL COURSES (for Spring 2010)
# of AP courses: 14 # of HL courses: 8
Students taking AP exams: 118 # of AP exams taken: 355
Percentage scoring 5: 38%
Percentage scoring 4 or above: 64%
Percentage scoring 3 or above: 87%
*Beginning in 2010, CSUS reduced the number of AP courses in favor of college-level courses that allow faculty to delve more deeply into topics that are given less emphasis in the AP curriculum.
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Stanford (32)
UC – San Diego (12)
UC – Davis (10)
USC (10)
UC – Los Angeles (9)
Boston University (9)
Princeton (6)
Brown (6)
Dartmouth (6)
Williams (6)
UC – Berkeley (6)
Tufts (6)
Washington Univ – St. Louis (6)
New York University (6)
George Washington (6)
Yale (5)
University of Pennsylvania (5)
Northwestern (5)
MIT (4)
Pomona (4)
Cornell (4)
Carleton (4)
Claremont McKenna (4)
Scripps (4)
Santa Clara (4)
UC – Irvine (4)
Harvard (3)
Columbia (3)
Duke (3)
Middlebury (3)
Georgetown (3)
Carnegie Mellon (3)
Colby (3)
University of Edinburgh, UK (3)
Puget Sound (3)
UC – Santa Barbara (3)
98+% of the graduates each year attend 4-year colleges or universities |
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