HS Class
District public school that you are automatically assigned.
What is a base school?
This refers to one 6-week term of the school year.
What is a marking period or quarter?
How many credits are needed to graduate from High School in NC?
What is 22 credits.
What is the test that all sophomore take to help prepare them for the SAT exam?
What is PSAT?he PSAT (Preliminary SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) is a test designed to help high school sophomores and juniors prepare for the SAT. The PSAT can also gauge your aptitude for other national tests and inform which areas you'll need to focus your studying on.
This refers to one-half of the school year, made up of two quarters.
What is a semester?
What is the name or term for the classes that you get to choose to take, that are not considered core classes?
What are Electives?
A Durham Public School that has a specialty program that you can only be selected through a lottery process
What is a magnet school?
What does the acronym GPA means?
What is Grade Point Average?
What is the state assessment students take in the spring of their junior year?
What is SAT?
Scholastic Aptitude Test: a test taken in the U.S. to measure students' abilities before they go to college.
career and occupational credits needed to meet graduation requirement
What are AP classes?
The process that allows a student to enroll in a "random process". It usually opens every February and closes in March.
What is the lottery?
ELA class
What is English Language Arts:
A core course of instruction where students develop listening, speaking, reading, composition, grammar, and spelling skills in English
Students that plan to go to college fill this application out their senior year to help see if they can get financial aid for college expenses
What is FAFSA? Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Fall sports
What is: Softball, Volleyball Girls, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Football ,Golf Boys, Soccer Boys, Tennis Boys
This is the number of English Language Arts classes required to graduate from high school with a diploma.
What is 4?
This is the number of mathematics credits required to graduate from high school with a diploma.
What is 3- but most colleges require 4!
This is the number of Science classes and Social Studies classes required to graduate from high school?
What is 3 credits for Science and 4 credits for Social Studies.
What are credits in high school?
What are Winter Sports?
What is
Basketball Boys Basketball Girls
Ice Hockey Swimming Girls
Wrestling Boys Wrestling Girls
Poms Unified Basketball
Cheerleading
This is the term given to courses in which high school students have the opportunity to earn both high school and college credits simultaneously.
What is Dual Enrollment.
This is similar group of classes that students take in the same subject area towards a specific career.
What is a Pathway?
Where students can go for extra help for high school admission support?
What is Mrs. Williams' office?
Tuition
What is payment for education?
What are the Spring Sports
What is:
Volleyball Boys Soccer Boys
Track and Field Swimming Boys
Baseball Golf Girls
Lacrosse Soccer Girls
Tennis Girls