Community Handbook
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How the Met came to be
The Idea
In 1993, Stanley Goldstein, founder and former CEO of CVS Pharmacy, asked Doctors Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor, principal and assistant principal respectively of the award-winning Thayer High School in New Hampshire, to come to Rhode Island to help improve education in the state. A few months later, Theodore Sizer, chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools at Brown University in Providence, invited Littky and Washor to be the first Senior Fellows at the newly formed Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
One student at a time
One Student at a Time: A Deeply Personalized Public High School
by Big Picture Founders Elliot Washor and Dennis Littky
Perhaps more than any public school in America, the Met School insists on educating "one student at a time." Each student develops a unique curriculum based on strong personal interests and the school's demanding academic learning goals. Every student in the Met's first two graduating classes has been accepted to college and/or vocational school.
Met students spend two days per week at internships that they select based on their interests. Across four years, one student interned with an engineer, a judge, a choreographer, and a marine biologist. He completed many personalized projects such as co-directing a musical and developing water quality systems in Narragansett Bay.
FACTS
- 100% of students from our pioneer graduating class were accepted to college
- Students graduating in 2008, 2009 and 2010 had similar success
- 95% of Met Sacramento students have an active internship
- 260 students currently enrolled at the Met Sacramento, and growing!
- We are currently remodeling our campus. The $7.5 million remodel, will embrace GREEN technologies. Three of our students are directly involved in the remodel via their internships.
- 9-12 grade Met students start taking advantage of our dual-enrollment partnership with the Sacramento City College. A typical Met graduate earns 40 college units!
Application to enroll
Step 1
Call The Met at 395-5417 and schedule a shadow day/family meeting.
Step 2
Attend a shadow day/family meeting. This gives you a chance to understand more about our school's culture and learning environment.
Step 3
Prospective students/parents must complete all parts of the student application.
Step 4
After you have complete step 2 and 3, your parent or guardian must fill out all registration material provided in our office. Make sure to supply us with a current/revised final transcript to assure proper placement and assessment of your individualized learning plan.
Please Note: You must be dis-enrolled from your current school before becoming a Metster!
All application materials should be sent to:
The Met
810 V Street
Sacramento, Ca, 95818
Office (916) 395-5417
Fax: (916) 264-4701
What is an Advisor?
"Here, the advisors come in early, they stay after, they visit you at home, and they talk to your parents. You know them because they make themselves known."
--Seetha a recent Met Sacramento graduate.
"My advisory are my family. They know me and I trust them."
--Aaron, Met Sacramento class of 2013.
Advisory
Starting in 9th grade, students are organized in advisories, groups of roughly 20 students from the same grade level and led by an advisor (or teacher), who stays with them for all four years of high school. The Advisor, unlike a traditional teacher, guides each student's learning in every academic area and helps the group develop a strong sense of trust and teamwork. She/he is a coach, pushing students to achieve their greatest academic potential as well as their character and leadership skills. Throughout their four years together, an advisory becomes very close and its members often refer to it as a family.
Student Clubs
There are many clubs on our campus. Get involved!
Don't see a club that interests you? Start a new one!
See your advisor for details.
- Leadership
- Gardening Club
- Mural Club
- Music Club
- GSA
- Hip Hop Club
- Sports/Intramurals
- Newspaper Club
- Black Student Union
- The Met Improv Players
Lunch Menu
The Met High School
Café Menu
All meals now come with our “Go Green, Eat Fresh” salad bar daily.
All students must select
½ cup fruit or vegetable with their meal.
Beverages include 1% low fat white and fat free chocolate milk.
Lunch Price $2.25
(Pre Pay Online@ www.myschoolbucks.com)
Monday: Hot Wok
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Chinese Chicken Salad
Fruit & Yogurt Meal
Tuesday
Spicy Chicken Wrap
Chicken Caesar Salad
Sunbutter Meal
Wednesday: Italian
Spaghetti
Chicken Caesar Salad
Fruit & Yogurt Meal
Thursday
Breaded Chicken & Biscuit
Turkey & Ham Sub Sandwich
Sunbutter Meal
Friday: Mexican Grill
Chicken Chicana Burrito
Ground Beef Chicana Burrito
Chicken Taco Salad
Fruit & Yogurt Meal