Berkeley High School

Hello, Do anyone knows how is the rating for Berkeley International High School by itself? I have tried to look for an opinion on that, apart from BHS, but seems that ratings and opinions goes always under BHS name, all together. Many thanks Rafael
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My daughter is a junior in Academic Choice. I have found the teaching staff and curriculum to be highly inconsistent. She has had poor instruction for math her first two years and teacher after teacher after teacher for Spanish. They all quit. I wanted to love it. I needed to love it. But all in all, it's an urban school with urban problems and it's too large to care about any student, most especially one that's struggling. At 4400 students, how can they possibly manage? New principal might be nice, but the kids just don't get what they need. Period.
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It is October 2010, we have a fantastic new principal with a wide base of support after an extremely controversial one, and a district admin that wants to clean up the problems and keep supporting the greatness. Lots of evaluation will be done this year due to accreditation cycle. What an exciting time to be part of this great big, diverse, interesting place, in a community that supports schools with its pocketbook (no thanks to Arnold S.) Last principal failed to do adequate evals of teachers so accomplishing that is a new priority. Things are looking up.
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The diversity of students and teachers and class offerings is wonderful. The teachers care about their students. Despite the challenges of a huge student population, this was a great learning environment -- academically and socially -- for my children.
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Berkeley High has departments, courses, and teachers that rival any school in the nation!
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A great school with wonderful kids, smart teachers and caring administrators.
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The school has the best students in the nation and we in Berkeley are committed to ensuring that everyone graduates.
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multi-culti as heck, and the small schools (schools with the school) are amazing
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Berkeley High has so much variety, diversity and excellence in teaching, it can meet each child and provide them with a great school experience
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It was the first public high school in the United States to have fully integrated classes. Duke Ellington and his band came to celebrate this with us!
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