Message from the Principal
Hello Spartans,
I hope you had a great weekend. As mentioned last week, our counseling team has been working diligently to balance classes and address schedule change requests in a timely manner. Each year, changes to our course offerings happen due to several factors, such as student enrollment, new program requirements and changes in personnel. These changes unfortunately can lead to changes in student's schedules. Typically, our window to make most of these changes is the first ten days of school. This year, due to issues with our network that affected Infinite Campus, the District has extended that window by an additional two days. We ask that you please be patient with us as we work to balance classes.
I also want to remind students that our Fall sports season is underway. In the Fall we field the following athletic teams:
Co-ed Football
Women's Volleyball
Men's Water Polo
Men's/Women's Cross Country
Women's Tennis
Women's Field Hockey
If you are interested in playing a sport, please stop by the ASB or see our Athletic Director Coach Wilson. Instructions on how to get cleared to participate are found HERE.
Lastly, please make note that our campus opens at 8:00am every day. If students arrive earlier than 8:00am, they can enter campus as early as 7:15am. Students will be provided with a safe, supervised area within our Before/After School program, The Vault. To access this FREE program, students must enter through the Youth Center main gate off of L Street. Take advantage of this free service.
Have a great third week of school!
Go Spartans!
Julio Alcala
Principal
Chula Vista High School
Home of Champions!
Did You Know?
Did you know that Chula Vista High School has a school with-in a school?
An education at the Chula Vista School for the Creative and Performing Arts is a complete education!
The SCPA is a “school with-in a school” located on the Chula Vista Middle and Chula Vista High School campuses for grades 7-12.* Magnet programs like ours, offer the best of Public and Charter Schools combined!
In addition to professional arts training, our students have the benefits of a traditional school, rigorous academic college prep courses including the most AP offerings in the district, opportunities in our national award winning student government and of course athletics!
We offer beginning through advanced instruction in ALL FOUR arts disciplines:
Dance, Drama, Music, and Visual Arts
No experience is necessary, just a desire to learn! Search through our majors and find one for you!
* students can be accepted in any grade
One of the most notable alumni from our SCPA program is actor and television host Mario Lopez, who graduated in 1991 from Chula Vista High School. Click on this link to read more about the "Saved by the Bell" star.
Gates will be open for students to enter campus at 8:00am. We will have four entry points with designated drop off areas for students. Those are marked on the map with a blue arrow:
#1 North 100, drop off point is the driveway in the front of the 100 building.
#2 South 100, drop off point is the parking lot in front of the GYM.
#3 Youth Center, drop off point is the Youth Center parking lot on L street.
#4 K Street Gate, drop off point is on K street.
These areas will also serve as pick up points for students after school. For the safety of all, please make sure you observe all traffic patterns and rules.
SUHSD COVID Protocols
Please make sure you also familiarize yourself with our COVID protocols:
- When indoors vaccinated staff and all students are strongly recommended to wear a face mask.
- Unvaccinated staff and adult visitors must wear masks when in the presence of others indoors.
- In classrooms with immunocompromise staff or students, we are asking the classroom communities to please support each other by wearing masks when indoors.
An exception where staff or students will be required to wear masks at this point is after they are returning to school following exposure to COVID. These additional protocols are our best way to ensure we can keep our students and staff on campus and engaged in learning this school year.
Message from SUHSD Student Support Services
Dear parents/guardians of Sweetwater Union High School District students,
The department of Student Support Services welcomes you to the 2022-2023 school year and wishes your family a successful year. Student attendance is a strong predictor of student academic success. Please know we care about your student and believe if present, they can do well in school! Therefore, in our efforts to partner with you on ensuring your student's attends school, we would like to share what we can do together. First, we encourage you to download the Campus Parent application where you can set-up it up to notify you in real time if your student is marked tardy or absent. In addition, you can also receive updates to announcements, assignments, grades, schedules, and more. Using your parent portal account, you can adjust the method you wish to receive the notifications (text, email, phone call).
In addition, starting on Monday August 1, 2022, per state mandate, the district will start sending via email attendance letters to students' parents for students that have accumulated 3, 6, and/or 9 unexcused absences. Per district policy, parents or guardians have up to 30 days to excuse absences.
The department of Student Support Services encourages students to stay on track by making up their absences as appropriate and by completing any missed assignments.
Thank you for your cooperation!
Need a Schedule Change?
Students!! If you would like to change your schedule the CHANGE REQUEST FORM will be UP in your GOOGLE CLASSROOM ON MONDAY - TUESDAY!!
The counselors will work on them from throughout the week and will take about 2-3 days to get back to students about their schedule change! Please be patient!
REMEMBER!! Not every change or request will be granted! Counselors will let you know whether or not the change can happen!
Also, remember for the next 10 days, BALANCING CLASSROOM CAPS WILL HAPPEN! So, there will be more expected movement!
Jupiter Grades is an online tracking system to check students' progress.
Parents and students can check on:
Current Grades
Missing Assignments
View Homework Calendar
Behavior Alerts
Receive Announcements from School or Teacher
Email Teachers Directly
Be sure to regularly check Jupiter Grades
Username: Student ID
Password: 8-digit birthdate (i.e. November 22, 2009 = 11222009)
Chula Vista High School
Email: julio.alcala@sweetwaterschools.org
Website: cvh.sweetwaterschools.org
Location: 820 4th Avenue, Chula Vista, CA, USA
Phone: (619) 476-3300
Twitter: @cvhprincipal