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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
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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
| Seniors: 548 |
Juniors: 591 |
| Sophomores: 700 |
Freshmen: 839 |
Ethnic Distribution:
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White...............60% |
|
Hispanic...........28.7% |
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Black................8.2% |
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Asian/Other.......3.1% |
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:
| English III AP
(language/composition) |
Music
Theory AP |
| English IV AP
(literature/composition) |
French IV
AP |
| U.S.
Government /Economics AP |
German IV
AP |
| European
History AP |
Spanish IV
AP (Language) |
| U.S. History
AP |
Spanish V
AP (Literature) |
| Statistics AP |
Biology AP |
| Calculus AP |
Chemistry
AP |
| AP Studio Art
(Drawing Portfolio) |
Physics AP |
| AP Studio Art
(2D Portfolio |
Environmental Science AP |
| AP Studio Art
(3D Portfolio) |
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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:
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English............................................ 4 |
Health............................................½ |
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Mathematics.....................................4 |
Tech App........................................1 |
|
Science...........................................3 |
Fine Arts.........................................1 |
| Social
Studies...................................4 |
Speech..........................................½ |
| Phys
Ed.........................................1½ |
Electives.....................................6 ½ |
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:
| Cum
Laude |
94.0 -
95.9 (or among the top
10%) |
| Magna
Cum Laude |
96.0 -
97.9 |
| Summa
Cum Laude |
98.0 -
100+ |
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:
| Pre-Advanced
Placement |
1.05 |
| Advanced Placement |
1.10 |
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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