The Hillcrest School curriculum is based on an American curriculum and follows the California Standards. It is accredited with the Middle States Association in the United States and the Association of Christian Schools International.
AWARDS
A. Academics
Awards for academic effort and achievement are given to help develop a positive attitude toward academic achievement and excellence, to encourage serious effort, and to honor those who have done exceptionally well. These awards are given at the awards assembly at the end of the school year.
Class academic award - The member of each of the 4 high school classes who has the highest grade point average over the first 3 nine weeks of the school year is selected by the high school staff.
Subject awards - Teachers of various subject areas (math, science, language arts, French, commercial, social studies, art, P.E., Music) may nominate a graduating senior student for a subject award. The nominee should be a person who has taken several courses in that field, has displayed excellence in that area, and has developed an interest in that subject that is evident outside the class.
Elementary School - Grade 5 teachers select the top 6 students academically, based on the entire year's grades and work. Teachers must maintain an on-going record based on grades so as to make this selection prior to the final report card being marked.
Valedictorian/Hillcrest scholars - Valedictorian honors are awarded to the senior with the highest cumulative GPA provided he/she has attended Hillcrest for the entire senior year and at least three semesters prior to that, and they are in good standing in the school. Those seniors whose Hillcrest GPA is 3.6 or higher will be named as Hillcrest Scholars.
B. Service, Citizenship and Attendance
Each staff member is encouraged to nominate candidates. The student is selected by the staff in a regular staff meeting by the process of discussion and secret ballot.
In the Elementary School each teacher will select one girl and one boy from their class, “individual classroom” for Citizenship/Character awards. Qualities upon which the selections are made are honesty, fairness, loyalty, effort, perseverance and dependability.
Service - Students who volunteer their service in areas such as teaching Sunday School, Piano lessons, Physical Education classes, language laboratory, library assistance, etc., on a regular basis for the year are awarded certificates.
Citizenship - The Citizenship award is given by the high school staff to the senior who best exemplifies the following characteristics:
personally shows and encourages good behavior,
willingly takes on extra tasks when asked,
willingly does and encourages activities which help other students and staff members,
shows a positive Christian attitude.
Perfect attendance - This award is given to any elementary student who has perfect attendance in a term.
