Crawford High

San Diego, California

1,193 students

High School, Grades 9–12

1,193

Students

21.7:1

S:T Ratio

School Snapshot
Key metrics at a glance
Avg SAT Score

1,220

A-

out of 1600
Good
Avg ACT Score

27

A

out of 36
Excellent
AP Courses

10

B+

courses offered
Good
AP Enrollment

18%

C

of students
Average
Student-Teacher Ratio

22:1

B-

students per teacher
Average
Graduation Rate

90%

A+

Excellent
Academic Grades

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Academic Pathways

Explore 139 courses in the 2025-26 catalog for Crawford High

English 1,2: Identity and Relationships 1,2 (1371, 1372)
9

English 1-2: Identity and Relationships is a one-period literacy course. The course content focuses on teaching the students skills and strategies for critical, independent reading and writing of increasingly complex expository and narrative texts. Instruction in each standards-based unit of study interrelates reading, writing, oral communication, and language study. Students are provided with multiple opportunities to articulate their own ideas as well as to question, interpret, and evaluate others’ ideas. The goal of instruction is to support students in becoming independent, strategic, critical readers, writers, listeners, and speakers who communicate effectively in various forms, for genuine purposes, and to authentic audiences. In addition, students will explore their own identity as well as the different identities of those around them in their diverse communities through the guiding principles of Ethnic Studies. They will critically examine systems of power that affect themselves and their communities. They do this while working towards mastery of the CA Common Core Standards. Every unit culminates with an opportunity for students to reflect on and then share their learning. This course also provides protected time for small group designated English Language Development (dELD) instruction for English learners at all proficiency levels. This small group instruction builds critical language skills into and from the English content and is focused on the CA ELD Standards.

American Literature 1,2 Honors (HP) (1589, 1590)
11-12

This course follows the curriculum for American Literature in greater depth, with more complexity and novelty, and at an accelerated pace. This course emphasizes skills and strategies for independent reading and analysis of, and writing about, American literature, with a focus on how that literature reflects social, political, and moral issues in the United States. Instruction in each standards-based unit of study integrates reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language study. Students are provided with multiple opportunities to articulate their own ideas as well as to question, interpret, analyze, extend, and evaluate others’ ideas. The goal of instruction is to support students in becoming independent, strategic, critical readers, writers, listeners, and speakers who communicate effectively in various forms, for genuine purposes, and to authentic audiences. All students enrolled in this class take a comprehensive written final examination or create a project-based learning experience required by the University of California in order to earn weighted credit. The purpose of the final exam is to allow students to exhibit depth of knowledge and sustained mastery of the subject material. This course also provides protected time for small group designated English Language Development (dELD) instruction for English learners at all proficiency levels. This small group instruction builds critical language skills into and from the English content and is focused on the CA ELD Standards.

Expository Reading and Writing (ERWC) 1,2 (P) (1698, 1699)
12

This course is for college-bound seniors with an EAP status of “conditionally ready” based on the results of their grade 11 SBA tests in English. The goal of the CSU Expository Reading and Writing (ERWC) course is to prepare college-bound students for the literacy demands of higher education. Students are expected to increase their awareness of rhetorical strategies employed by authors and to apply those strategies in their own writing. They will read closely to examine the relationship between an author’s argument or theme and his or her audience and purpose, to analyze the impact of structural and rhetorical strategies, and to examine the social, political, and philosophical assumptions that underlie the text. By the end of the course, students will be expected to use this process independently when reading unfamiliar texts and to provide lengthy, independently written responses. Students who earn a grade of C or better in this course and who have an EAP status of “conditionally ready” will be considered remediated and will no longer need to take the CSU English placement test (EPT) or remedial English courses once enrolled in the CSU system. This course also provides protected time for small group designated English Language Development (dELD) instruction for English learners at all proficiency levels. This small group instruction builds critical language skills into and from the English content and is focused on the CA ELD Standards. * * *

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