school profile 2007-2008

General
Type: College Preparatory school for young women
Grades: 9-12
Enrollment: 653 (165 Seniors)
President: Ellen S. Bartel
Principal: S. Virginia Honish, SDS
Director of Student Services/Guidance: Carrie Smith King, Ph.D., ext. 2914
School Counselor: Timothy P. Trokan, ext. 2906
School Counselor: Jacquelyn Krawczyk, ext. 2905
College Advisor: Carla Olle, ext. 2806
The CEEB/ACT Code Number: 501-350
Accrediting Organization: North Central Association

2007-2008 Enrollment
653 young women from 110 parochial, private and public schools. 
Young women of color enrollment - 15%    
Non-Catholic student enrollment - 10%

Faculty
61 faculty members 
66% have or are working toward master’s degrees
11/1 student/teacher ratio
218/1 student/counselor ratio

Average Class Size - 21

Tuition - 2007-2008 - $8,900

Graduation Requirements/Curriculum
Credits    Subject
4           Communications/English
3           Mathematics (including Algebra II)
3           Science
3           Social Studies
3.5        Theology (plus freshman, junior and senior overnight retreat,  
             service and pastoral experiences over the four years) 
2           Foreign Language (must be the same language)
1           Fine Arts (Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts)
1           Physical Education
0.5        Health
0.5        Fundamentals of Technology I or II
2.5        Electives
24  Total Credits

Courses Offered 
* Semester course     AP=Advanced Placement
Business/Technology Department
Advanced Technology*
Personal Finance*
Entrepreneurship*
Multi-Media Video Editing*
Web Design*
Accounting I*,II*

Communications/English Department
College Prep English I, II
AP English 
Journalism I*
Journalism II - Newspaper* or Magazine Concentration*
Communications/Speech*
The Female Identity in Literature*
Social Change in Arts & Literature*
Writing Non-Fiction*
Shakespeare's Major Plays*
Great Books*
Poetry*
Advanced English Seminar*

Fine Arts Department
 Dance
 Contemporary Dance*
 Choreography/Composition*
 Dance for the Theatre*
 Dance: Classical to Modern*
 
 Music 
 Advanced Handbells*
 Concert Choir
 Angelaires
 Advanced Musical Studies*
 Camerata Singers
 Orchestra
 Chamber Music Ensemble
 Music Exploration*
 
 Theatre Arts 
 Acting I*, II* III*
 Theatre Production Apprenticeships
 Summer Musical Theatre Production
 Scene Design*
 Stagecraft

 Visual Arts
 Design*
 Discovering Art*
 Drawing*
 Painting*
 Ceramics*
 Advanced Ceramics*
 Photography*
 Advanced Photography*
 Jewelry*
 Adobe Illustrator*
 Adobe Photoshop*
 Fibers*
 Advanced Art

Mathematics Department
Algebra Ia, Ib
Honors Math I, II, III, IV
Plane Geometry
Geometry
Algebra IIa, IIb
Advanced Math Topics
Trigonometry*
Pre-Calculus*
AP Calculus (AB) & (BC)
Introduction to Engineering: Our Digital Future

Physical Education Department
Physical Education I*, II*
Women's Health Education*

Science Department
Conceptual Physics
Biology
AP Biology
Environmental Science*
Earth Science*
Chemistry
Honors Chemistry
AP Chemistry
Physics
Honors Physics
Anatomy and Physiology
Independent Science Research Projects

Social Studies Department
World Studies
United States History
Women’s Studies*
Economics*
International Relations
Behavioral Science*
Government and Politics*
Honors Western Civilization, Part II
AP United States History
AP American Government
AP European History
AP Macro Economics*
AP Micro Economics*

Theology Department
Theology I - Understanding Catholic Christianity
Theology II - Forming a Catholic Conscience*
Theology III - Understanding Scripture
Theology IV - Our Church Through the Ages and Our Call to Discipleship: Church History and Social Justice

World Languages Department
Spanish I, II, III, IV, V, Heritage Spanish II
Latin I, II, III, IV, V
French I, II, III, IV, V
German I, II, III, IV, V 

School and Community
Divine Savior Holy Angels High School is sponsored by the Sisters of the Divine Savior. Divine Savior High School was established in 1948. Holy Angels Academy, established in 1892 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, affiliated with Divine Savior in 1970. Combined, they have a long and successful history of educating young women as attested to by an alumnae association of over 13,000 women.

Located on a twenty-acre campus in a residential area of the northwest side of Milwaukee, Divine Savior Holy Angels draws students from the metropolitan Milwaukee area and surrounding counties. Its student body represents a wide variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds.

College Entrance Test Data
ACT
Graduating      Number       Composite
Class of:                       
2003                140            23.9
2004                137            25.3
2005                154            24.8
2006                150            25.3
2007                146            25.8

SAT I
Graduating        Number     Verbal/Critical     Math     Writing
Class of:                          Reading*                                   
2003                62              593                 568         (Added as of 2006)
2004                61              584                 557
2005                59              597                 578
2006                69            *612                 597          602
2007                66            *616                 588          604
                                      *Renamed Critical Reading in 2006

National Merit Program

Class of:	2008	2007	2006	2005
Semi-Finalists	5	4	8	3
Commended	3	3	5	6

Grading
Letter grades, grade points, and percentage equivalents:

A	4.00	100-95
A-	3.67	94-93
B+	3.33	92-90
B	3.00	89-87
B-	2.67	86-85
C+	2.33	84-83
C	2.00	82-80
C-	1.67	79-78
D+	1.33	77-75
D	1.00	74-72
D-	0.67	71-70
F	0.00	Below 70

All grades are figured in the grade point average with the exception of grades earned outside of DSHA during the summer. There are no weighted grades/ classes at DSHA. A senior with a 3.7 or above GPA is eligible for membership in the National Honor Society.

Advanced Placement Test Results 2004-2005

Scores	5	4	3	2	1
Biology	10	7	2	0	0
Calculus (AB)	17	10	3	0	0
Economics - Macro	0	1	1	0	3
Economics - Micro	0	2	0	0	0
English Literature	9	25	15	2	0
European History	3	6	3	0	0
Government & Politics	12	31	32	11	0
Latin	0	0	2	0	0
Psychology	1	0	0	0	0
U.S. History	2	6	7	3	3
Totals	54	88	65	16	6
Percent of Total	24	38	28	7	3

Advanced Placement Facts
Ninety percent of students who took AP exams received scores of 3, 4 or 5. One-hundred sixty students took 229 exams in ten different subjects. Forty-five percent of last year’s senior class, forty-four percent of last year’s junior class and thirteen percent of last year's sophomore class took an AP exam.

Course Materials
Sixty-nine percent of our junior and senior-level courses use textbooks traditionally used at the college level.

Class Rank
Class rank is computed using semester grades beginning with ninth grade. One credit is awarded for successful completion of a course which meets five days a week for the entire school year, and one-half credit is awarded for courses which meet five days a week for one semester. A semester consists of nineteen weeks. Classes are 50 minutes in length within a seven period day.

College Acceptances
For the graduating class of 2007, 100% of Divine Savior Holy Angels graduates pursued post-secondary education. The following is a list of schools to which one or more DSHA students have been accepted in the past five years.

Alverno College
American University
Arizona State University
Augsburg College
Barnard College
Boston College
Boston University
Bradley University
Butler University
Cardinal Stritch University
Carleton College
Carnegie Melon University
Carroll College
Carthage College
Case Western University
Catawba College
Catholic University of America
Colby College
College of Charleston
College of the Holy Cross
College of William & Mary
Concordia University
Creighton University
Culinary Institute of America
Denison University
DePaul University
DePauw University
Dickinson College
Drake University
Edgewood College
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fordham University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Howard University
Indiana University
James Madison University
John Carroll University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lake Forest College
Lawrence University
Loyola University – Chicago
Loyola University - Marymount
Loyola University - New Orleans
Macalester College
Marian College
Marquette University
Miami University
Mount Mary College
MSOE
New York University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Princeton University
Providence College
Purdue University
Regis University
Rhodes College
Ripon College
Rockhurst University
Santa Clara University
St. Louis University
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
St. Norbert College
Smith College
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University
Syracuse University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of Chicago
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Dallas
University of Dayton
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of St. Thomas
University of Wisconsin – Madison
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin System
United States Military Academy at West Point
Valparaiso University
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Winona State University
Xavier University
Yale University