North Pocono High School
The North Pocono High School is 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 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, which is an average size for high schools in the region.
The old high school, 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 220-280 students.
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
- Ron Collins: Principal
- Timothy Connolly: Vice Principal
- Christopher Sload: Vice Principal
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 will prepare students for college or continuing their education.
Accelerated: The accelerated program provides 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 combines the general or academic program of study with business electives.
Vocational: The vocational program students an opportunity to combine their basic, general or academic program with programs offered through the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County.
Grades in all tracks are weighted differently when calculating quality point average.
Departments
The school is organized into the following departments:
- Art
- Business
- English
- Family & Consumer Science
- Foreign Language like French or Spanish
- Health and Physical Education
- Mathematics
- Music
- Science
- Social Studies
- Technology
Graduation requirements
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: course
- 4: English
- 4: Social Studies
- 3: Mathematics
- 3: Science
- 4 units (1 per year): Physical Education
- 1 unit: Health
- Balance of credits required: Electives
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
The multipliers will be used in the calculation of the student's class rank but will not appear on quarterly report cards or in the calculation of GPA and QPA.
Sports
North Pocono High School offers the following sports:
- Boy's Baseball
- Boy’s Basketball
- Girl's Basketball
- Coed Cheerleading (fall and winter)
- Coed Cross Country
- Marching BandTemplate:Sport?
- Boy's Football
- Gymnastics
- Coed Golf
- Boy’s Soccer
- Girl’s Soccer
- Bowling
- Girl's Softball
- Girl’s Tennis
- Boy’s Tennis
- Girl's Volleyball
- Boy's Volleyball
- Coed Track and Field
- Coed Rifle
Official website
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