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WAVE Wilson's Vision of Academic Excellence

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Pathway Description

WAVE is a multidisciplinary pathway for high achieving students.  WAVE students are cohorted within their English, History, Math, Science, and Capstone classes.  

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Entrance Criteria

  • Academic GPA of 3.7 from 6th, 7th and fall semester of 8th grade
  • ELA SBAC score of 2552+
  • Completion of Algebra 1 in 8th grade

Pathway Vision: WAVE scholars will serve as independent, analytical, and innovative citizens within the school and community

Pathway Mission: The WAVE program cultivates students who can demonstrate their credibility at the highest level of academia by providing a rigorous interdisciplinary college level curriculum that focuses on investigation, independent learning, and argumentation

 

Sample Schedule

Grade 9

  • English 1-2 Accelerated
  • Geometry Accelerated
  • Biology: The Living Earth
  • World Language 1-2
  • PE/Marching Band/Sport
  • Visual or Performing Art
  • Academic Elective

Grade 10

  • AP Seminar
  • AP Modern World History
  • Algebra 2 Accelerated
  • Chemistry Honors
  • World Language 3-4
  • PE/Marching Band/Sport
  • Academic Elective 

 

Grade 11

  • AP Psychology
  • AP U.S. History or U.S. History
  • AP English Language
  • Pre-Calculus or AP Pre-Calculus or Finite/Statistics/Trigonometry
  • Academic or Athletic Elective 2-3 recommended

 

Grade 12

  • AP Research
  • AP Government and AP Economics or Accelerated Government and Economics
  • AP English Literature or CSU ERWC 
  • AP Calculus or AP Statistics or Finite/Statistic/Trigonometry  
  • Academic or Athletic Elective 2-3 recommended 

 

 

Being in WAVE opens doors to a tight community where you work together with classmates to push yourself to your full potential, forming bonds through challenge, collaborations and support.

WAVE Video

WAVE Pathway Slides

Work-Based Learning

  • Career Exploration Activites
  • Guest Speakers

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For More Information

Contact Joel Jelinowicz JJelinowicz@LBSchools.net
(562) 433-0481 ext. 6850

Nondiscrimination Statement: The Long Beach Unified School District prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying, targeted at any student or employee by anyone, based on the student or employees actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy and related conditions, parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

For questions or complaints, contact Equity Compliance Officer: Steve Rockenbach, Director of Employee Relations and Ethics, 1515 Hughes Way, Long Beach, CA 90815, 562-997-8220, srockenbach@lbschools.net and Title IX Coordinator: Kimberly Dalton, Director of Human Resource Services, 1515 Hughes Way, Long Beach, CA 90815, 562-997-8108, kdalton@lbschools.net and 504 Coordinator: Jenny R. Acosta, Program Administrator, 2221 Argonne Ave, LB 90815, 562-986-6870, JRAcosta@lbschools.net.