Stagg High School will be a community school that promotes lifelong learning for all stakeholders. All participants will create an enriched environment where students, parents, staff, and community members support one another in positive, challenging, academic, extracurricular, and social endeavors. In the fall of 2009, we began to reform the comprehensive high school into smaller learning communities. Each SLC will be based on a specific career pathway in order to offer students the opportunity to graduate high school with the necessary skills to obtain a high paying job as well as be college ready. Counselors meet with students regularly in order to follow their academic progress and to put support systems in place if needed. All leadership decisions will be student-centered, supporting increased student achievement.

Students
Students will develop a mindfulness to always achieve their best academically and behaviorally. All staff will always support and celebrate those efforts by students. All new students with below level skills will be immersed in academically rich programs to quickly bring them to proficiency. Upon graduation, all students will have completed course requirements and possess skills necessary to continue their education at the college level.

Bill Parks, PRINCIPAL

Principal Bill Parks delivered on an incentive he promised before students took the API/AYP tests: He would take his desk and chair and work on the roof of Stagg High School the entire day.  The school had to increase its API score by at least 25 points for that to happen.  Stagg students did better than that, the school gained 34 points, improving its Academic Performance Index score to 626. Though still well below the state's target of 800, Stagg ended a painful four-year stretch during which its API score declined each year, plummeting 63 points.

Great job for the Stockton Unified School District's Stagg High School!