Summer High School

Overview

Summer High School
Co-Ed, grades 9-12—multi-week summer school classes

Register for Summer

Jesuit Sacramento is offering in-person summer school courses on our campus. Courses will offer high school students the opportunity to take credit courses (where the grade is listed on the student’s transcript) and enrichment courses. 

All courses meet Monday through Friday (excluding June 19th and July 4th for observed holidays.) Please pay close attention to the start dates for each class. 

High school level courses are offered in academic subjects for female and male students entering grades 9-12. 

Pre-requisites, attendance

All courses meet the same standards and cover the same material as the regular school year courses. Credit courses meet U.C. “a-g” requirements.

You are strongly advised to review any course pre-requisites and consult with your child’s academic counselor to ensure that your student is ready and qualified to take the course that you have requested. It is also your sole responsibility to be sure that your child’s school will accept credit for this course. Daily attendance in class for credit classes is mandatory. Our attendance policy allows for 1 absence during each semester (1 absence between 6/11/25 and 6/27/25 and 1 absence between 6/30/25 and 7/18/25.) If a student misses more than 1 day of class per semester, credit cannot be granted for the course. 

Incoming Freshmen

Incoming Freshmen are only allowed to take credit courses after a careful review of the individual candidate’s academic performance, recommendations and test scores and following our challenge testing in late April. 

Buy Books

Click here for the Summer Required Text Book Listing for 2025. Students will be expected to have the required textbook in their possession on the first day of class. Teachers will be ready to assist students in the first few days of class who are waiting for materials to arrive. 

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Math

Algebra I

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Algebra 1 is the first course in the Common Core Traditional Pathway for High School Mathematics. This comprehensive course emphasizes equation-solving procedures, understanding and graphing functions, and problem-solving strategies. Major topics include equations, inequalities, systems, linear and quadratic functions, exponents, polynomials and factoring, and data analysis and probability. This course is recommended for students who have strong fundamental math skills and a desire to accelerate in mathematics. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits.

INCOMING JESUIT STUDENTS: This course is geared for those who have more significant holes in their Algebra knowledge based on HSPT/challenge test scores but not to the point of qualifying Algebra 1 review. Families are required to wait for their Math placements to be processed to verify if they are eligible for this class, please do not enroll in class prior to the Math Challenge test results are completed. This course is also open to sophomores who need to retake after their freshman year. 

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

Algebra I Review

June 11 - June 27: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

OR

July 1 - July 17: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

Please see the full description under Non-credit classes.

Algebra II

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Algebra II is the third course in the Common Core Traditional Pathway. Major topics include functions and how to build them, modeling with linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, radical and rational functions, basic trigonometry, series and sequences, and statistics and probability. 

Pre-Requisites for Jesuit Students:  This course is designed to remediate and cannot be taken by Jesuit students for advancement to Pre-Calculus. Must have completed Algebra I and Geometry. Jesuit students must obtain prior department approval.

Pre-Requisites for Non-Jesuit Students:  Successful completion of Algebra I and Geometry OR Integrated Math 1 and 2. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits. 

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee

Credits: 10

Geometry XL

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The course has the same goals and objectives as the full year course of Geometry XL. Content includes all topics from Geometry as well as additional emphasis on formal deductive proof, applications to geometric figures, construction and inductive reasoning.  A grade of A in Algebra I or Integrated Math 1 is a prerequisite for this course. 

Pre-Requisites for Jesuit Students: Sophomore standing in the Fall. Jesuit students must obtain prior department approval. Incoming Jesuit Freshmen may not register for this course without taking the Math Challenge Exam and receiving prior approval from the Math Department. 

Pre-Requisites for Non-Jesuit Students:  Successful completion of Algebra I OR Integrated Math 1 with a grade of A or better. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits. 

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

Pre-Calculus

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

This 6-week course prepares students for Calculus by introducing and reinforcing algebraic skills required for success in that course. The first three weeks will focus on simplifying expressions, solving equations and inequalities, functions, graphing, transformations, higher degree polynomial functions, and inverse functions. The last three weeks will focus on transcendental functions (exponential and logarithmic) and trigonometry. Students will learn and apply fundamental identities and the Unit Circle to a variety of problems, apply transformations to graph trigonometric functions. Building upon that, students will be expected to apply other trigonometric identities (addition/subtraction, double & half angle formulas, sum-to-product, and product-to-sum) to solve a variety of problems. The course concludes with inverse trig functions, applying the laws of sines and cosines, vectors, and representing complex numbers in trigonometric form.

Pre-Requisites for Jesuit Students: Open to current 11th-grade students earning an A in regular Algebra 2 or B in Algebra 2H and subject to instructor approval. The course may also be taken to remediate a Pre-Calculus grade earned during the regular academic year.

Pre-Requisites for Non-Jesuit Students: Must have successfully completed Algebra 2 or Integrated Math 1, 2, and 3. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits.

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

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Science

Biology

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

A discovery approach is used with intensive hands-on experience through laboratory experiments. The course content includes the following topics: cells, functioning plants and animals, genetics, evolution, energy and life, ecosystems, and ecology. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits. 

Price: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

 

Chemistry 

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

This class is laboratory-oriented. It includes metric measurement, general inorganic chemistry, formula writing, balancing of equations, the mole concept, atomic structure, heats of reactions, chemical equilibrium, organic and nuclear chemistry. Please be sure to consult with the Academic Counselors at your school to be sure that this course is a good fit for you and that they will accept our credits. 

Pre-Requisite:
Jesuit students: Must have completed Algebra I with a C+ or better AND Biology with a C+ or better or Biology XL with a C or better
Non-Jesuit students: Successful completion of Algebra I and Geometry OR Integrated Math 1 and 2 AND Biology

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

 

Physics

June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

Physics is the study of matter and energy. Course content includes motion, force, energy, momentum, waves, light, electricity and magnetism. Laboratory experiments and individual projects are an integral part of the course.

Pre-Requisite:
Jesuit students: Must have completed Chemistry.
Non-Jesuit students: Completion of Algebra I and Algebra II OR Integrated Math 1, 2, and 3.

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

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Social Science

U.S. History 

​June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

This course introduces the student to the many political, economic and social concepts and developments that have shaped American society. 

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

 

Human Geography

​June 11 - July 18: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The goal for this course is for students to become more geo-literate, more engaged in contemporary global issues, and more informed about multicultural viewpoints. They will develop skills in approaching problems geographically, using maps and geospatial technologies, thinking critically about texts and graphic images, interpreting cultural landscapes, and applying geographic concepts such as scale, region, diffusion, interdependence, and spatial interaction, among others.

Cost: $750 plus $50 registration fee
Credits: 10

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Non-credit
Review & Enrichment

Algebra I Review

June 11 - June 27: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.  

OR

July 1 – July 17: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

This course is designed for students who have completed a full year Algebra I course but need additional instruction in preparation for taking an accelerated or honors level course at Jesuit. The expectation is that students who successfully complete this course will demonstrate mastery of Algebra I concepts in line with those students taking accelerated Algebra 1 at Jesuit. Students will be assessed on a weekly basis and will take an exam similar in content and rigor to the year-end final exam in Algebra 1(XL).

JESUIT STUDENTS: Incoming freshmen may not register for this class without Department Approval. This course is aimed at incoming freshmen who require reinforcement of Algebra I skills in order to advance into Geometry that Fall. Permission to take this course is based upon the results of the Math challenge tests administered in April.

Cost: $400 plus $50 registration fee

College Application Workshop

Session 1: June 2 – June 6 from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. OR 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  

Session 1 is now full (3/19/25)

Session 2: June 23 – June 27 from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. OR 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 

Jesuit High School is offering a one-week college application course for rising Jesuit seniors.

This is a small class setting of 10:1, which means that each student will receive extensive instruction on tasks such as developing an individualized college application list, creating and refining a personal statement, navigating the college application process at JHS, filling out the Common App as well as going over the UC/CSU and other University Applications.

This course will guide and help each student in understanding every stage of the college application process. At the end of this workshop, students will have the potential to have most of the college application process completed. (There are a limited number of seats in this course.)

Pre-requisite: Current Jesuit student entering 12th grade in the fall of 2025

Cost: $250 plus $50 registration fee