Pedro Cairo, MAED Julissa Gomez, MAED
Elementary Principal Secondary School Principal
elementary@icda.edu.do e-mail: hs@icda.edu.do
Carmen Reinoso Sara Guerrero, MAED
Elementary Psychologist Guidance Counselor
Address Miami Mailing Address
Colegio Dominico Americano ICDA-Colegio Dominico Americano
Abraham Lincoln #21 EPS # A1974
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic P.O. BOX 02-5261
Miami, Florida 33102-5261
The Community and the School:
Founded in 1981, the Colegio Dominico-Americano is a preparatory college school, non-profit institution with grade levels 1st through 12th grade. It is an offspring of the mother institution Instituto-Cultural Dominico-Americano and the ICDA Pre-school provides 90% of its first grade students. The School Board governs the school and is committed to foster and maintain academic excellence in a multi-cultural environment with qualified personnel and excellent educational services.
The Student Body:
The current total enrollment is 534 students with a mean average of 17 students per classroom. There are 37 students in the graduating class and the largest group per grade has 68 students divided in three sections. School population has an annual average growth of 18% with 15% rotation of its population. Presently there are 144 students in 9th - 12th grade. The student body is composed of 54% Dominicans, 44% Americans and 3 % of ten other nationalities. Ninety nine percent attend College, 75% locally, 24% US university and 1% others countries. Attendance rate is 97%, while punctuality is 93%.
The Faculty
There are 56 faculty members, including 17 US citizens, 29 Dominican citizens and 10 of five other nationalities from around the world. Twelve staff member hold master’s degree, 41 hold bachelor degree, and thirteen staff members are aides in the classrooms. Thirty-one percent of the teaching staff has been with the CDA for five years or more.
The Curriculum:
The Colegio Dominico-Americano curriculum is designed to enable the students to fulfill the requirements for two diplomas, the US high school diploma and the National Baccalaureate diploma of the Dominican Republic.
In order to graduate with a USA HIGH SCHOOL diploma, the student needs to earn a minimum of 27 Carnegie credits in grades 9 – 12, each 130 hours – full-year course receiving one credit. Compulsory courses include English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Computer Technology and Dominican Culture. Six additional credits are of electives.
In order to graduate with a Dominican Republic Baccalaureate diploma, the student needs to earn a minimum of 28 Carnegie credits in grades 9 – 12, each 130 hours – full-year course receiving one credit. Four credits of Spanish and 3 credits of Dominican Social Studies need to be taken in addition to complying with the HS diploma requirements. The aforementioned credits substitute the electives in the USA diploma. Also needs to comply with 60 hours of community service.
Departmental Offerings:
English Department: English 9th, World Literature 10th, US Literature 11th, and British Literature 12th.
Spanish Department: SSL 9 – 12, Spanish 9th, Spanish 10th, Spanish Literature 11th, Hispanic & Dominican Literature 12th
French Department: French 9th, French 11th, and French 12th
Social Studies: World Geography 9th, World History 10th, US History 11th, US Civics/Economy 12th
Social Studies of DR (SEE) taught in Spanish: Caribbean and Hispanic History 10th, Dominican History up to 20th Century (11th) and Dominican History II 20th and 21st Century (12th), SSL Dominican Culture 11th-12th
Science: Earth Science 9th, Biology 10th, Chemistry 11th, Physiology 12th, Physics 12th and Elective of Environmental Science
Mathematics: Algebra I 8th / 9th, Geometry 9th/10th, Algebra II 10th/11th, Advance Math 11th / 12th, and Pre-Calculus 12th
Technology: Word 9th, Powerpoint 9th, Excel 10th, Database 10, Programming 11 (JAVA or WEB Design)
Fine Arts: Music 9, Art 9, and an elective of Mechanical Drawing
Physical Education: PE 9th, PE 10th, and PE 11th
Others: Health 10
Extra-Curricular Activities:
Athletics: Colegio Dominico-Americano offers intramural and/or interscholastic team sports for boys and girls in the following sports: basketball, volleyball, soccer, chess, Ping Pong, track and field, marathon, baseball, tennis, bowling and swimming. The teams compete at invitational school tournaments and interscholastic local league (Inter-Colegial).
Clubs: Colegio Dominico-Americano offers the following school sponsored clubs and activities:
Student Council and Class officers Choir (4th – 8th)
Model United Nations of Las Americas Drama Club
Newspaper Club Math Olympic Club
Music Club (Keyboarding, violin, guitar, percussion)
Computer Club
Community Service: Colegio Dominico-Americano offers the following school community service options in order to comply towards graduation with the 60 hours of community service:
Community Service at neighborhood clinics or hospital Reforestation Projects
Teacher’s Aide position in EFL Program Human Habitat – construction at a given site
Orphanage visits and donations drive Community Service hours at a Public school
Educational Exchanges available
USA Presidential Classroom New York Model United Nation
Milliken University Music Program
Grading & Evaluation System
The academic grades express student achievement in the learning process, and it is shown in a numerical scale from 1 to 100%. This scale is detailed with its literal equivalent as follows:
1st to 8th High School
A= 90 - 100 A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89 B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79 C = 74 - 79
D = 65 - 69 D = 70 - 73
F = 64 or less F = 69 or less
The school year is divided in four marking periods and two semesters. There are three types of grades: quarter, end of semester, and/or end of the year. The quarter grades are determined at the end of the eight to ten week periods. These grades are composed by the average of grades given from activities and individual or group projects, class participation, daily homework, quizzes and the quarter evaluation.
The end of the semester grade is the result from averaging the quarter grades plus the percentage assigned to the semester exam. In grades 2nd to 6th the semester exam has a value of 14%, and for Junior High and High School the exam has a value of 20% of the semester average. The yearly grade is an average grade of each semester.
Grade Point Average is a weighted average of each subject proportional to the number of credits and/or hours it meets in a week. Students in 9 –12 are ranked in their class according to their GPA.
Honor Roll
Students that have received Academic Merit, with satisfactory conduct, at the end of each quarter will be added to the Honor Roll. Those students that have been on the Honor Roll for all quarters will receive an Honor Certificate or a Medal of Excellence at the end of the school year.
SAT SCORES MEAN TOP SCORES
SAT VERBAL SAT MATH SAT WRITING SAT VERBAL MATH WRITING
2001 473 509 600 680
2002 516 526
2003 474 474 590 570
2004 510 503 620 600
2005* 490 455 455 620 630 610
*SAT test form changed for the 2005 -2006 school year.
PRUEBAS NACIONALES 12th
SPANISH MATH SOCIAL STU SCIENCE
2001 26.7 23.5 22 17
2002 21.5 21.7 18.9 18.3
2003 20.4 19 20.4 23.9
2004 21.8 24.9 21.7 24.8
2005 21 20 18 17
College Matriculations
The majority (98%) of the Dominico-Americano graduates pursue a college degree, here in the Dominican Republic or abroad. Our first graduating class graduated in 1997. Shown below are the Colleges attended since 1999. Inside the parenthesis is the number of students registered in that particular college this year. In addition we have placed the number of students attending with scholarships inside the brackets from previous years.
The last graduating class, class of 2005, had 20 students of which 12 were with the school since 1st grade, five (5) of these students received scholarships to attend Universities locally and abroad. Fifteen students are in local universities and four students went abroad to the underlined universities below.
United States Universities and Colleges with students from the school since 1999:
Boston University
Columbia University [1]
Dalhousie University
Florida International University
Florida State University
Ithica College [1]
John Jay University
Johnson and Wales University (Ft. Lauderdale)
Manhatanville University [6]
Marymount College
New York College (2)
SUNY College
Texas A&M University
Puerto Rico University
University of Virginia
Dominican Republic
|
2000-2001 |
2002 - 2003 |
2003 -2004 |
2004 -2005 |
2005-2006 |
APEC |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
INTEC |
5 |
0 |
6 |
3 |
|
PUCMM |
3 |
1 |
14 |
3 |
|
UNPHU |
|
|
1 |
0 |
|
UNIBE |
6 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
|
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