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| School District and Community | School | Ethnic Distribution |  Curriculum | Mission Statement | Belief | Advanced Placement Courses | Graduation Requirements | Class Rank | Weighted Grades | Extracurricular Activities |

School District and Community:
Brazoswood High School opened in September 1969, to serve the communities of Clute, Lake Jackson, and Richwood in the Brazosport Independent School District (BISD). The faculty consists of 182 professional staff members, with an average of seventeen years of teaching experience. Twenty one percent of our teachers have Master's Degrees. The facilities are situated on a 100-acre campus in the Brazosport area located approximately 50 miles south of Houston on the Gulf Coast.
 

School:
Enrollment: 2678         

Ethnic Distribution:

Curriculum:
From among the 175 course offerings, students must earn 26 Carnegie units for graduation. The offerings include a variety of advanced courses in English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Business, and Fine Arts. Additionally, many industrial and vocational offerings are available on campus or at the area vocational schools. Students are offered eight credits per year on a block scheduling system or four classes per day or eight classes every two days.

Mission Statement:
Brazoswood High School is a community of learners preparing for tomorrow.

Belief:
Our belief is a shared accountability to achieve excellence in a diverse and safe learning environment.

Advanced Placement Courses:
Students at Brazoswood are offered the following AP courses:

Graduation Requirements:
Each school year consists of two semesters. One half (.5) credit can be earned in a subject during the semester. Since students attend four classes a day, if they pass (with a 70 or above) all eight courses, they can earn four semester credits. A student should earn eight credits a year. It is possible to earn 32 credits in a four-year period.

All students must have a total of 26 credits to graduate, including the successful completion of all required subjects and passing exit-level TAAS/TAKS examinations.  The minimum 26 credits for graduation are:

Class Rank:
All courses taken for credit are averaged. When a student graduates, each student will have a class rank based on a comparison with his/her classmates. Honor graduates are divided into three categories:

Weighted Grades:
Beginning with the 1984-85 school year, the local board of education adopted a system of weighted grades to encourage students to take more difficult subjects. Only the semester grades are weighted, and this procedure applies only to students graduating in 1988 or later.

Since the Texas Board of Education has ruled that grades in excess of 100 cannot be reported, our school district has adopted the following procedures: grades earned in accelerated, honors, and AP classes will be reported to parents and students without the factor added. However, separate records, which reflect the factored grades, will be maintained by the registrar for class rank and grade point average.

Classes are weighted as follows:

Extracurricular Activities:
Extracurricular activities include a wide range of subject and interest-related clubs, as well as choir, band, orchestra, drama, drill team, cheerleaders, pep squad, speech and debate, newspaper and yearbook, student government, art, etc. Interscholastic competitions are offered in academic areas (Scholastic Bowl, debate, etc.) as well as in sports (baseball, basketball, cross country, diving, football, golf, power lifting, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling). More than eighty percent of our students participate in one or more extracurricular activity. Daily tutorial time provides opportunities for students to seek help from teachers, study, or attend club meetings. Clubs or activities are added upon a student request and faculty sponsorship.

Athletic and Academic Achievements

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Edited by: Christina Gray
Integrated by: Justin Williams
 

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