Strategic Goals for La Jolla High School Improvement

Strategic Marketing Objectives for School Improvement

Through these recommendations, we aim to achieve goals that follow the SMART Guidelines: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound. Some of these include:

• Decrease student enrollment in charter or private schools: Reduce the number of La Jolla High students choosing charter or private schools by 5% annually.
• Increase private school transfers to La Jolla High: Boost the number of students attending La Jolla High after private school by 5% each year.
• Improve "weakest" subjects: Decrease the identified "weakest" subjects' percentages by 3% annually.
• Enhance student-administration communication: Increase the percentage of surveyors who agree that the administration listens to student concerns by 10% within two years.

These goals are achievable and easily identifiable due to their specific nature. They are crafted around identified opportunities and threats.

Broader Strategic Goals for La Jolla High

Beyond the SMART goals, our recommendations also aim to achieve broader, future-oriented objectives:

• Enhance campus safety and address bullying: Make students feel more comfortable at La Jolla High by improving campus safety and addressing bullying issues. Our research found that 20% of surveyors cited campus safety as their greatest concern.
• Fulfill student needs and concerns: Actively listen to student critiques and concerns, taking steps to address the most frequently raised issues.
• Boost college preparation: Introduce more ways for students to get a head start in their college-level writing. Our research indicated that 29% of surveyors identified college preparation as a major concern.
• Diversify course offerings: Introduce a wider variety of courses across multiple disciplines and subject areas that students express interest in, creating a diversified learning environment that will pique students' interests. Notably, 37.3% of surveyors suggested course variety could be improved.
• Strengthen weaker academic departments: Increase the strength, rigor, and success level of identified weaker academic departments by implementing teaching methods proven successful in other departments. For instance, 36% of surveyors identified History and Social Studies as the strongest department, while 37.3% identified Math as the weakest.