Castro Valley High School is located in the unincorporated suburban community of Castro Valley, California, United States. It is a comprehensive public high school for grades 9 to 12. Named a National Exemplary School in 1984–85 and 1988–89, it was a California Distinguished School in 1987–88, 2000-01, and 2009.It is part of the Castro Valley Unified School District.AcademicsAs a comprehensive high school, Castro Valley High School provides a wide variety of course offerings, including advanced, honors, and Advanced Placement courses. Advanced, Honors, and AP courses include Advanced Algebra 2, Advanced Sophomore English, AP Calculus AB and BC, Honors American Literature, AP Statistics, AP English Literature, AP Computer Science, AP United States History, AP Economics, AP Biology, AP European History, Honors Chemistry, AP Studio Art, AP Chemistry, AP Art History, Honors Physics, Honors Chamber Orchestra, AP Environmental Science, Honors American Sign Language, AP Spanish, AP French, AP German, and AP Japanese.Castro Valley High is the only high school in the United States to offer Honors American Sign Language.In 2008, CVHS opened a new, state-of-the-art library that includes computer labs, teaching spaces, study areas, periodicals and an updated book collection.Students receive a variety of awards for their achievements, including Academic Blocks, Renaissance Program, California Scholarship Federation and Departmental Awards from individual faculty members. At graduation students are ranked for Honors (3.5 – 3.74), High Honors (3.75 – 3.99) and Highest Honors (4.0 and above).During the 2013–14 school year 313 students took the SAT with a mean Critical Reading score of 533, a mean Math score of 568 and a mean Writing score of 529. During the 2013–14 school year, the ACT was taken by 166 students with a mean score of 25.3 on the composite.
