10 Feb Top 10 Reasons to Attend SET High
Academic excellence and engaging classes? Support from teachers and staff whenever you need it? This is the gold standard at SET High! Our small, public tuition-free charter high school with a 12:1 student teacher ratio empowers, enables and encourages everyone to think outside the box while exploring what interests and excites you. How far will you go? Here are 10 reasons to attend SET High:
1. Standards-Based Requirements + Personal Passions
Guiding you as you find and cultivate your individual passions is one of our favorite things we do as a school. Our SET High student-led Passion Projects exist to ignite a love for learning, while also challenging each student to follow their curiosity into the new and the different. We love big thinkers and daredevil doers, innovative creators and collaborative dream chasers. We’re here to cheer, champion and safely support you whether it’s a class on campus or with our dual enrollment partner, Mesa College. And we never neglect CA’s standards-based requirements.
2. Teachers and Staff Who Love the Work We Do
Speaking of which, who are we at SET? We are educators and staff who live for student growth alongside academic success. We drive our campus culture of acceptance and compassion, and we intentionally know every individual as you are – an individual. Our small school enables us to share our creativity in our classrooms and hallways – and the trust we earn from students and families like you, is our greatest reward.
3. Amazing Electives
No two days are the same at our WASC-accredited, tuition-free public charter high school in San Diego. And no two electives are either. This semester we offer you yet another amazing array:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Art
- Computer Science
- Debunking Disney
- Engineering Design & Construction
- Guitar
- Jiu Jitsu
- Personal Finance
- Project You!
- Psychology
- Spanish
- Strength & Leadership
4. Risk Takers Rejoice
Our students aren’t the only risk takers at SET High. We lead by example. Use AI in class? Let’s try it…with guardrails firmly in place. Trust that students like you can keep their phones out of sight during the school day? We’re testing it out…and it’s working! Explain why attendance matters and use the money we get for it to pay for your student interests? How do you think we got that awesome ping pong table? Sure, sometimes ideas fail but that’s okay (actually better than okay)– it’s all part of the beautiful and sometimes messy world of learning.
5. College Prep at Every Turn
Our 4×4 block schedule means that you have a full year of material, four classes at a time, each semester. These longer blocks of time mimic college class schedules and allow for project work in class together. Come visit us and see for yourself!
6. California Distinguished High School
We are a California Distinguished High School. Awarded twice! We value this recognition as a measure of our dedication to our high school students, to the honor it is to serve our families and community, and as a reminder of how our choices impact the next generation. We open our doors each morning knowing we can’t wait to engage with you. Our classrooms hum. Our staff works hard. And we grow together – learning alongside you and every motivated young mind in our midst.
7. What is High School Without Clubs & Sports?
SET High is a proud member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). You can play basketball, volleyball or run track & field and cross country. You’re also able to join a variety of clubs like Film Production, D&D, Art and Friendship, Battle Bots, Magic the Gathering, Ignite Peer Mentoring, ASB, Yearbook, SET Senate, Mountain Biking, Bible Study, National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI), and Ping Pong.
8. Free College Tuition? Dual Enrollment with Mesa College
Ready to explore even more than high school classes? You and every SET student has access to curated, quality instruction and deeper dives courtesy of dual enrollment with Mesa College. What is dual enrollment? Glad you asked. Our students get free college tuition via your flexible scheduling of college courses during the SET school day. And feel free to ask us why this is a better option than AP. We’re here to chat!
9. Year-Round Enrollment
We enroll students like you year round and help everyone land here with care and compassion. We know SET can be a great fit for each high school student, so we start the enrollment process with a tour or shadow days. We want you and other potential students and families to see our close-knit, small public high school up close and personal and for our students to share with you all their day-to-day favorites about this school.
10. Community is #1 (not #10)
Learning doesn’t happen alone. We pride ourselves on our accepting, active high school community. We are eager for you to see and feel how we lean on each other, cheer for each other, and have fun together. SET High is much more than a school building during a few years of your teenage journey. We partner with you as you grow, evolve, dive deep and build your best self. We come together in service to our local community too- we had our first SET High Service Day last year and are excited to make this a recurring event.
SET High is enrolling now– come shadow for a day and see us for yourself!
About SET High
SET High offers each student individual attention from multi-talented, highly qualified teachers. Students build a healthy camaraderie with classmates inside an intellectually rigorous environment that brings out their talents and personality, helping them develop their individual character and direction in life. With a wide variety of electives, flexible scheduling, dual enrollment college classes and more — our students regularly exceed their academic and personal expectations. Enroll now.