Chatham Central High School

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Chatham Central High School

• Presentation to the Chatham County
• Board of Education 5-4-2009
• Mitchell Stensland, Principal

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CCHS Demographics 07-08

• Enrollment 05-06 490 06-07 495 07-08
  457 08-09 476
• Projected Enrollment 09-10 492
• Rural School with 476 students
• 78 Caucasian
• 13African American
• 6Latino
• 12Other

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Rigorous Program Rigorous Courses

• Honors Courses Offered with Numbers of Students
• Department of Courses/ of Students
• 05-06 06-07
  07-08 08-09
• Math 6/151 8/172 6/252 4/151
• English 4/121 4/138 5/202 6/232
• Science 5/209 8/272 10/275 7/307
• S. Studies 7/196 6/170 8/271
  7/251
• Total-- 677 752 1,000
  941
• Online Enrollment
• 04-05 6 06-07 34 07-08 53 08-09 81

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SAT Participation and Scores Writing and EOC
Performance

• SAT scores Students Math Critical Rdg. Writing
  AVG
• 2003-2004 44 (58.7) 501 479
  980
• ACT 4/21.5
• 2004-2005 37 (51.4) 525 490
  1015
• ACT 22/20.4
• 2005-2006 52 (50.5) 485 459
  464 944
  
• 2006-2007 55 (50) 490 447
  462 937
  
  
• 2007-2008 51 (53) 511 479
  473 990
  ACT12/21.5
• EOC Composite Proficient 07-08 72.4 06-07
  71.1 05-06 78.2
• 10th Grade Writing 2002-2003 24.4
  2003-2004 65.2
• 2004-2005
  54.4 2005-2006 57.7
• 2006-2207 48.1
  2007-2008 78.9

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AVID Expansion

• AVID at all four grade levels
• WICR Strategies in the Writing Program
• Integrated Environmental Science and Agricultural
  Science
• -Connected Curriculum throughout course
• -AVID Organizational Strategies taught and
  expected
• -Cornell Note taking strategies taught and
  expected
• Planned for 09-10 Integrate Civics and World
  Literature with AVID Strategies taught and
  expected with emphasis on nonfiction readings and
  world economics

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Two and Four Year College Acceptance and
Scholarships
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Weighted Grade Point Averages

• Senior GPAs 07-08 Senior
  GPAs 08-09

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Special Programs

• Nationally Recognized Agricultural and
  Horticultural Sciences
• 16 National First Place Teams Nursery/Floriculture
  
• 12 Second Place National Teams
• 54 State First Place Teams
• Three former students earned a doctorate in
  Horticulture
• More than two hundred former students work in the
  ag industry
• Selected as 1 of 4 Oustanding Ag Programs in the
  Nation (early 90s)
• 20 years Vocats Performance at or above 95

Corn Embryo
Corn Plant
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Special Programs

• Culinary Arts
• Campus visits to Culinary Arts Institute in
  Durham and Johnson and Wales in Charlotte
• Mini-internships with Fearrington Village 5 Star
  Restaurant Cambridge Assisted Living Center
• Bear Claw Catering
• Tasty Tuesdays

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Technology at Chatham Central

• 11 Training by Academic Discipline
• Wiki Pages
• Paperless Classroom
• Web Tools 2.0
• -Blogs
• -Wiki Pages
• -Google Docs
• -Podcasting

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Athletics at Central

• 21 Teams, 9 Womens, 11 Mens Teams
• 2008-2009 Enrollment 476, 280 are on one or more
  teams.
• 59 of CCHS students are involved in athletics.
• Scholar Athletes First Semester 2008-09
• 49 Women 3.5 or higher GPA
• 40 Men 3.5 or higher GPA
• Teams
• Womens Tennis, Volleyball, Mens and Womens
  Cross Country, Womens Basketball

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Beginning with the End in Mind

• Freshman Transition Program
• Struggling Eight Graders at Bonlee
• Freshman Leadership Academy
• Peer Mediation
• Academic Excellence for All
• Zero Tolerance for Zeros
• Mandatory Tutoring
• Homeroom Looping Grades 9-11
• Zero Hour, Fifth Hour and Online at School and at
  Home for Acceleration and Recovery

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Future Ready at CCHS

• Program and Facilities Needs
• Renovate five student bathrooms
• Install one additional practice field
• Install one video conference system for Distance
  Learning
• Update/upgrade video surveillance system
• Add an additional online learning lab with
  supervision
• Continue PLCs to develop strategies to improve
  learning for all students
• Explore new strategies for math instruction,
  particularly Algebra 1 and 2 and Geometry.
• Utilize renovated science lab to improve
  performance in all science courses