Some of these strategies include better utilization of the school’s Student Assistant Team, fair and consistent enforcement of an effective school discipline plan, increased opportunities for student internships and providing unique extra-curricular activities for “at-risk” students such as the Video Game Club.

Of the forty-one students who dropped out of Croatan High School during the 2003-2004 school year, thirty-two of these students indicated attendance related issues were the reason they dropped out. The gender breakdown for dropouts during 2003-2004 was equal with twenty females and twenty-one males leaving school. A higher percentage of juniors dropped out than the other three classes. Eleven of the dropouts were exceptional children including one classified as academically gifted. The number of exceptional children dropouts in 2003-2004 is an increase of four students from the 2002-2003 school year. Improvements within Croatan’s Exceptional Children’s department include strategies to improve scheduling and monitoring of those EC students who are at the greatest risk of dropping out.

GRADUATES/POST-SECONDARY PLANS – Statistics related to Croatan High School’s five graduating classes are on Table 1-6.

In May 2004, Croatan High School graduated 96.8% of its 2004 senior class. This senior class worked hard and they achieved excellence in many areas such as surpassing the state average for SAT scores and having the highest SAT scores in the county. Croatan’s graduates are focused on their future as is evident from a senior survey the Class of 2004 completed. According to this post-graduate plans survey, nearly half of the class will be attending a university and forty-three percent plan to attend community college. For the past three school years, ninety-two percent of each graduating class planned on continuing their education beyond high school.

VOCATS PROFICIENCY- The purpose of VoCats is to provide schools with a computerized instructional management system that can be used for planning instruction, assessing students before, during, and after instruction, evaluate student mastery of competencies, document student achievement, and provide accountable data. VoCats is a competency-based, computer-supported system encompassing the following: course planning, lesson planning, Test/assessment items, aggregated and disaggregated reports by students, class, teacher, school, and LEA.

The Career and Technical Education (CTE) program areas at Croatan are Agriculture Education, Business Education, Family and Consumer Science Education, Technology Education, and Trade and Industrial Education. At the end of the 2003-04, Croatan was 79.6 percent proficient in all areas.

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