New school’s in session
Stratford School has opened its second private high school in the Bay Area in Milpitas. Stratford Preparatory Milpitas, located at 1323 Great Mall Drive, recently welcomed approximately 225 students in grades 6-9 for its inaugural school year. Plans are for the school to add one grade level each year until it serves grades 6-12.
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Stratford Preparatory Milpitas offers a STEAM-based curriculum in a facility that includes dedicated biology, chemistry and physics labs; two art studios; dual innovation labs; and music spaces—all anchored by a brand-new 7,853-square-foot gymnasium.
The high school is the fourth Stratford campus in Milpitas. Deepali Deshmukh, who was head of school at Stratford’s Milpitas Great Mall Parkway campus since 2018, is now heading Stratford Preparatory Milpitas.
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Peer review
A delegation of 16 students from Taipei City, alongside a project teacher and administrators, arrived in San Jose last month to present their Science, Technology, Arts, and Math (STEAM) projects to their peers at Silicon Valley Career Technical Education (SVCTE). SVCTE is run by the Metropolitan Education District, aka MetroED, which career technical education for students in the Milpitas Unified School District, among others.
“For the past five years, SVCTE has partnered with our sister schools in Taipei City and New Taipei City,” Kiran Grewal, MetroED’s assistant superintendent of educational services, said in a release.
Before traveling abroad, each student was required to go through a review process with professors in Taipei. Their projects included building a medical assistant robot, creating new waste disposal solutions, improving environmental sustainability and designing a response-time training system for the elderly.
