Additionally, our Beta club participants are required to complete forty community service hours with local businesses such as: White Oak Elementary School, The Soup Kitchen, Bogue Sound Elementary School , The Town of Emerald Isle, The Town of Newport Western Park, and Hem of His Garment.  Several local merchants and organizations participate with our students in internships such as Bogue Sound Elementary School, Carteret General Hospital, and Paws-itive Image.  Additionally, occupational students are involved in work-studies at hospitals and a wide variety of local businesses.  Finally, we are able to participate in a dual-enrollment program with Carteret Community College that enables our students to earn college credit while still enrolled in high school.

There are many instructional and human resources available to support our students’ growth and learning.  Our student to teacher ratio is, on average, eighteen to one.  We have three administrators and fifty-six teachers.  Our administrator-to-teacher ratio is approximately nineteen to one.  Our faculty has an average of fifteen years of experience and forty-three percent hold advanced degrees.  We have sixty-four certified staff members.  Fifty-one of our staff are teachers, three are administrators, ten are certified but not assigned to a classroom and seventeen are employed in a variety of other areas such as assistants or cafeteria workers.  We have sixty-three Caucasian and one African-American staff member.  Our staff is made up of forty-four female and nineteen male employees.  Of our budget, six percent goes toward administration, seventy percent toward instruction and twenty-four percent toward building and site maintenance.   Our average per-pupil expenditure is $7,321 dollars which is  above the state average of $6,615 per student. 

 

All teachers have the ability to enhance their curriculum, improve communication,

and handle daily responsibilities due to computers that have:

 

 

  • Internet access

 

 

  • E-mail access (in-school and outside of school)

 

  • An upgrade that enables the teacher to access SAS lessons, streaming video, etc.
  • Software that can be used for word processing, spreadsheets, databases,
  • PowerPoint presentations

 

 
  • Ability to connect computer to a TV or projection device in every classroom
  • Web-page authoring software (FrontPage)
  • School website with links to teacher web pages
  • Integrade software that electronically records grades and exports them to SIMS
  • Access to the school's media center materials from every teacher computer
  • Ability to store documents on a school-wide server that can also be accessed from
  • Home or any other computer throughout the school

 

  • Ability to access/revise web page from home

 

  • Ability to access school e-mail from home

 

  • A printer that attaches directly to every teacher computer

 

  • Access to digital cameras, laptops, scanners, video cameras, and external speakers
  • Access to a computer lab with over 25 student computers

 

  • Access to a wireless laptop cart with 16 student computers, printer, and projector
 

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