Wakefield High School (Raleigh, North Carolina)
| Wakefield High School | |
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| Address | |
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2200 Wakefield Pines Dr Raleigh, North Carolina 27614 |
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| School type | High school |
| Founded | 1999 |
| School board | Wake County Public School System |
| School number | 343244 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | Maroon, Black & silver |
| Team name | Wolverines |
Wakefield High School, is a Wake County public high school located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school is situated next to Wakefield Elementary and Wakefield Middle schools.
The school year at Wakefield High School starts in late August and ends in early June. The class schedule, commonly referred to as "block scheduling", has four different classes each semester, each period being approximately ninety minutes long. This completes a course in one semester instead of one year, and provides four new classes in the second semester. Students take exams in mid January and again in early June.
In the 2009-2010, the school implemented a different type of lunch period, called "SMART" lunch. Instead of multiple 30 minute lunch periods, a single 55 minute period is established in which all students and staff eat lunch together. Many school clubs are held during the lunch period. Teacher-help is also implemented at this time. During lunch, there is also a way for students to have "free lunch." This is mostly for students who come from families of the lower class who cannot typically afford lunch every day. Although this is offered, only 18% of students at Wakefield High School take advantage of this, compared to other NC schools where there are 40% of students who utilize the free lunch program.
Wakefield High School offers numerous Advanced Placement(AP) courses. AP classes offered at Wakefield include the following: AP English IV and III, AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A, AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP European History, AP Human Geography, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Economics, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Music Theory, AP Visual Arts-Drawing, AP United States History, and AP Design.
A new addition to Wakefield High School for the 2007-2008 school year is a new campus. While it is officially known as "Wakefield North," students commonly refer to it as "9th grade center" or "North campus". This campus serves as a Freshmen Center, and is intended to ease the overcrowding that has been a recent issue at the school. Wakefield North is located at the former Winn-Dixie supermarket just a few minutes from Wakefield's main campus. Freshmen enrolled in fine arts classes or higher level academic courses are shuttled to and from the main campus periodically throughout the day, since these courses are only taught on the main campus.
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