College & career ready: Orange Cove High receive high markings for setting students up for success

ORANGE COVE, Calif. (KFSN) -- As students cogwheel up for graduation, the California Department of Education is determining which are champion prepared for their futures.

Adliene Gomez is adjacent to graduation astatine Orange Cove High School.

The elder is simply a first-generation pupil whose parents moved present from Mexico.

"It feels similar a imagination travel existent honestly," Gomez said.

As a child, she started kindergarten lone speaking Spanish.

She moved to Orange Cove conscionable earlier precocious schoolhouse and has thrived.

She has earned a 4.0 each semester of her precocious schoolhouse career.

Her hard enactment paid disconnected arsenic she was offered a full-ride assistance done the Smittcamp Family Honors College astatine Fresno State.

"I cried that day," Gomez said.

She'll beryllium majoring successful Nursing pre-health and moving connected a insignificant successful Spanish.

She says the counselors and unit astatine the precocious schoolhouse has helped her scope her goals.

"They hole meticulously the classes we take, the programs we spell into and they enactment to assistance marque america scope that - to marque it possible," Gomez said.

Career Technical Education Counselor Denise Bernal says they conscionable one-on-one with each pupil to fig retired what they privation to bash aft precocious school.

Then, they travel up with a plan.

"Everything we bash present is intentional, arsenic aboriginal connected arsenic freshman twelvemonth each the mode done elder year," Bernal said.

According to the 2023 study connected College and Career Readiness, 85.5% of students astatine Orange Cove High are assemblage and career-ready.

That puts them up of each different Valley precocious schoolhouse but Reedley Middle College High School and University High successful Fresno.

The numbers are based connected the California Department of Education's College/Career Indicator which measures however apt students are to beryllium palmy aft graduation.

Students are considered prepared if they conscionable much than 1 of the criteria, including:

• completing a CTE pathway
• passing the Advanced Placement test
• completing assemblage recognition courses
• meeting the UC/CSU requirements
• earning the State Seal of Biliteracy

"Majority of our students are prepared due to the fact that they conscionable A-G oregon completed pathway," Bernal said.

For students similar Gomez, she says each of the enactment has made her acceptable to locomotion crossed the signifier successful conscionable a fewer weeks.

"I consciousness prepared and honored to beryllium capable to unrecorded retired each of my dreams," Bernal said.

This isn't the archetypal clip Orange Cove High has had awesome numbers.

Since 2019, much than 80% of students person been considered assemblage and career-ready.

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