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Welcome to UHS
University High School is a 9th-12th grade free public charter high school located on the campus of California State University, Fresno. UHS provides an accelerated college preparatory education to approximately 400 students who share a common interest in music. Students receive a strong foundation in music and the liberal arts and sciences in a small high school environment, while benefiting from the opportunities available on a large public university campus.
We are very proud to note that in the December 2007 issue of U.S. News & World Report, UHS was ranked the 36th best public high school and the 5th best charter high school in the nation.
Announcements
- Upcoming Events
- Progress on New Building
- Enrollment for 2010-11
With the start of the 2009-10 school year, UHS has begun its tenth year as a charter school. This year promises to be exciting.
- March 2nd UHS will be having Open House.
- March 12th Phoenix Alliance Spring Gala. Get your tickets here.
- April 13th Acheivement Awards.
- April 16th UHS Jr. & Sr. Prom.
- May 3rd Choirs Concert
- May 12th Concert Show - Jazz
- May 13th Concert Wind - CBand
- May 14th Concert Orch - String - Symph
- May 19th Spring Finals
- May 22nd Graduation
These events and others to follow will all take place against the back drop of the new school where construction has begun, and on a daily basis progress is being made towards the completion of the building that next year will be our permanent home. Our tenth anniversary will be a year like none other, and we are excited to get it started.
On August 1st contractors began working on our new building set to be completed in October of 2010. The building was designed by the internationally recognized firm of DSJ and will be constructed by Zumwalt construction. It will be the most progressive high school built in the valley. The new building includes three wings. A two-story classroom wing that has 19 classrooms including four science labs, a PE room and a computer lab. A music wing that includes three large performance spaces and a small recording studio and an administration wing for our counselors and administrative staff. All three wings are set around a large courtyard that includes a vending area for students. Our school population will not increase with our new building but the larger classroom spaces and other rooms will give our students and teachers more room to implement our program. This project is funded with Prop 55 money and parent contributions and is scheduled to cost around 16 million dollars.
University High School will be accepting applications for those wishing to enter UHS as a freshman or Junior from January 9, through February 5th. Interested students are expected to attend a UHS Information Day presentation.
The next days are scheduled for: January 9th at 10am in McLane Hall room 121. or January 21st in the Music Building room 160 at 4pm. The parking codes will be posted on a later date.
Incoming freshman students need to have completed Algebra and have a two-year music background to be accepted. Junior transfer candidates are considered on a case-by-case basis based on their previous high school work.