Program Goals  1year, 2 year and long term

• Collaboration with counseling department

• 100% completion rate

• Post-secondary and workforce ready

• Long term career employability

Our mission is to ensure the highest quality career technical education and service for our students, school districts and communities. The Fresno Regional Occupational Program (ROP) is career technical education that empowers students to make meaningful career choices by providing opportunities to explore their interests, develop career skills, and reinforce academics. ROP also offers a wide range of additional educational benefits, including college credit for qualifying courses, industry certification, and internships when appropriate in 230 courses in various career paths. Fresno ROP is available to high school students (16 years of age or in 11th or 12th grade) and adults (at the discretion of the school districts), preparing them for further education at colleges and universities, employment, or advanced technical training. Areas of study include agriculture, arts, media & entertainment, business, engineering technology, health, home economics careers & technology, industrial & technology, and public & human services. Credentialed teachers with work experience in their subject area enrich classes with their first-hand knowledge. Courses for this unique program are developed by dedicated business and industry advisory committees to ensure coursework is relevant to ever-changing industry, community, and educational demands. These committees use local business input, labor market studies, emerging technologies, and student interests to create a program that benefits students, employers and communities. 

§   The mission of Kerman High School is to provide our students with a balanced education through quality programs, in a safe learning environment. Each student will demonstrate the skills necessary to be productive, responsible citizen through partnerships with school, home and community.

§   The vision of Kerman High School is dedicated to developing academic excellence, student character, and community pride.

     The Public Safety program at Kerman High School supports the mission and             vision statements by working with students to make them successful. Our                 number one priority is to help the student graduate. Our CTE/ROP programs            actively assist our core teachers by reinforcing literacy and numeracy standards       in our lessons and allowing students to apply that knowledge to real-world and         program-specific scenarios.

The Criminology Pathway includes classes in Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigations which will begin the preparation for you to eventually have a career in this field. Projects and studies include crime scene investigations, blood spatter analysis, dusting for and analyzing fingerprints, live scenarios and report writing. Field trips are planned to exciting locations like , Alcatraz, Crime Scene Investigation Challenges, and Career Skill Challenges. This Pathway can lead to a possible Associates Degree.  

The current student/instructor ratio appropriate for teaching occupational skills  is 36:1

Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigations 

• Total # of students enrolled for Justice = 29 

• Total # of Students enrolled for Investigations = 30

• Number of students with an IEP, 504, and ESL.

• SPED department works closely with all students with needs .

 Communication and collaboration with advisory committee, local school administration, and district administration

• Ongoing collaboration between school counseling department that influence student enrollment in program in place.

• Instructor reports any student academic concerns to their individual counselors on campus. Meetings with student and families are held to support the student from failure. 

• Kerman High School is a school of choice and are in constant communication with students and families to market our campus.  Examples of marketing are as follows:

• Parent Nights to Market our school of choice and programs.

• Recruitment video that is shared district wide. 

• Parent Square is used to communicate with families as well as social media posts with flyers and videos.

• Our school website at kermanusd.com

• Counselors, Administrators, Students and Guest Speakers visit middle schools and conduct presentations for future students. 

• CSI Club (ASB)