Enterprise High School Assistant Principal Karen Mills said the new courses being offered during the 2012-2013 school year and the new modified block schedule will “give our students the best possible chance of having a great education.”
While students continue to take Advanced Placement classes and are offered dual enrollment, a Schoolwide Improvement Team worked together to make decisions for the betterment of the education process at EHS.
Mills said the SIT was made-up of community members, teachers and high school students.
“We found out that the majority of our students needed refreshing in math courses since they may take the first semester in their sophomore year and take the graduation exam at the end of their junior year,” Mills explained. “The students on the improvement team actually said they would like math and science to be all year long so they would be able to be refreshed in any of the math classes.”
Mills said the primary goal of the modified schedule and the classes was “to make our students better math students. Our teachers do a great job in trying to take study groups and take to refresh in a lot of subjects, but many students did say they needed math all year long in order to stay abreast of the subject.”
Several new AP courses being offered next year include Pre-AP 10th grade English; Pre-AP Biology; AP 11th and 12th grade English; AP Pre-calculus; AP Physics; AP Psychology; and with the partnership between EHS and Enterprise State Community College the Avionics/A&P program will also be offered.
“We’re excited about our students being able to have the Avionics/A&P program here,” Mills said. “Juniors will be able to take two classes in one year and as a senior, we’ll offer another two.”
Mills said at the beginning of school this year, a nursing program in partnership with Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, was offered to students.
“We also have our new courses currently being offered through our ACCESS program,” Mill added.
Students have the opportunity to take Mandarin Chinese, creative writing, marine science, French II, Spanish I, II, III and IV, personal finance, global studies, art survey, web design, business technology applications, workforce essentials and earth and space science.
“We also offer a forensics science course that is popular with the students,” she said. “We want to meet the students where they are and help them grow. We owe it to our students to be prepared for college or a career.”
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