North Pocono High School

The North Pocono High School is located on Bochicchio Blvd in Covington Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The school was built in 2009. It is the only high school in the North Pocono School District, which covers a vast amount of territory in Northeast Pennsylvania, including parts of Wayne County and all of southern and east-central Lackawanna County. Because the district covers so much territory, the high school serves a student population of over 1000 students, which is an average size high schools in the region.

The old high school, located on Church Street in the Borough of Moscow, is now the North Pocono Middle School and houses grades 6 through 8, with the new high school containing grades 9 through 12.

Usually there are over 70 faculty members, which creates a teacher-student ratio of 1:15. Each grade consists of approximately 220-280 students.

1 Accreditation
2 Administration
3 Academics
4 Grading
5 Sports
6 Official website

Accreditation

North Pocono High School is accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Administration

Bryan McGraw : Superintendent of Schools

Dan Powell: Assistant Superintendent

Mr. John Marichak: Principal

Mr. Timothy Connolly: Assistant Principal

Mr. Christopher Sload: Vice Principal/Director of Student Activities

Academics

North Pocono High School offers six programs of study.

Academic - The academic program of study provides students with a well-rounded education. This course of study will prepare students for college or continuing their education.

Accelerated - The accelerated program of study will provide students with the most challenging courses offered at North Pocono High School. The sequence of courses is designed puts students in classes a year in advance of the academic students in science and math. This will give students the opportunity to take Advanced Placement courses.

Basic/General - The basic and general programs of study offer students a well-rounded education each with their own specialized math and science sequence.

Business - The business program of study combines the general or academic program of study with business electives.

Vocational - The vocational program of study offers students an opportunity to combine their basic, general or academic program of study at North Pocono High School with programs offered through the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County.

Grades in all tracks are weighted differently when calculating Quality Point Average.

The school is organized into the following departments:

Art

Business

English

Foreign Language like French or Spanish

Health and Physical Education

Mathematics

Music

Science

Social Studies

Students must meet the following requirement to graduate:

In grades 9 through 12 every student shall obtain at least 21 credits. These 21 credits must include the following:

'Credits /Unit'Course Title

    4               English
    4               Social Studies
    3               Mathematics
    3              Science
    2.2             Physical Education/Health/Driver Ed
     .2             Family and consumer science
     .2             Career Awareness
    4              Electives (which must include 1 credit of Arts or humanities)

Grading

A+ 100

A 95 to 100

A- 92 to 95

B+ 88 to 92

B 84 to 88

B- 81 to 84

C+ 78 to 81

C 74 to 78

C- 70 to 74

D 65 to 70

F 0 to 65

Weighted Class Values: to reward and encourage students to take enriched classes, all individual class grades will be calculated using the following multipliers:

AP Courses x 1.10 = 110 total points possible Accelerated Courses x 1.08 = 108 total points possible Academic Courses x 1.02 = 102 total points possible General Courses x 1.00 = 100 total points possible

Please note that the multipliers will only be used in the calculation of the student's class rank but will not appear on quarterly report cards or in the calculation of his GPA and QPA.