Cedar Ridge High School - Hillsborough, North Carolina/NC

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Cedar Ridge High School

1125 New Grady Brown Sch Rd, Hillsborough, NC, 27278 -

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Definition of Terms

Cedar Ridge High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Orange County, NC

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1119 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

56 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 375 students

Grade 10 - 314 students

Grade 11 - 253 students

Grade 12 - 177 students

This School

(NC) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:20

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NC) School Average

% American Indian	1%	1%
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	3%	5%
% Black	22%	31%
% White	74%	59%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NC) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

17%

27%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NC) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Orange County s School District

This School's Agency

(NC) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	12	12
Number of Students Managed	6,793 students	6,210 students
District Total Revenue	$80,567,000	$47,973,000
District Expenditure	$68,198,000	$45,994,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,860	$7,725
District Expenditure / Student	$10,039	$7,406
District Graduation Rates	78%	74%

Gibbons, Cedar Ridge to play for volleyball championships (High School OT)
posted on November 4, 2009 at 10:37:55 pm
A couple of perennial powers will meet for the 3-A title, a rematch of last year's 2-A championship won by West Henderson.
Cedar Ridge rallies past Carrboro (The Chapel Hill News)
posted on October 25, 2009 at 06:05:02 am
Prep Football 2009: The Carrboro Jaguars got yet another moral victory on Friday night, but this wasn't the time for one.
Day Book (The Chapel Hill News)
posted on October 11, 2009 at 06:03:59 am
Sunday
Shop teacher shapes lives (The Chapel Hill News)
posted on August 26, 2009 at 06:14:44 am
Keith Yow doesn't mind pulling long hours, because his students are doing more than just building dining tables.
RECREATIONAL CALENDAR (The News & Observer)
posted on July 21, 2009 at 06:04:13 am
PARKS AND REC

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Cedar Ridge High School is a school in Hillsborough, North Carolina. It was officially opened in 2002, and at the time only served students in grades nine through eleven. The original student body was primarily made up of students in the southern portion of Orange High School's attendance area (in general, areas south of US Highway 70, exclusive of the attendance areas of Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School). The first senior class graduated in 2004. As of the 2008-2009 school year, Cedar Ridge is running on the block schedule, with two different sets of four classes every semester.
Alisa R. McLean, formerly the principal of A. L. Stanback Middle School, served as the school's principal from 2002 through 2005 (in addition to serving during the planning year of 2001-2002). She was assisted during the school's inaugural year by assistant principals Dr. Rodney Trice (now serving with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, most recently as interim principal of Carrboro High School), Dr. John Brian Heath (who at the time was a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, now serving as an administrator at Walter M. Williams High School in neighboring Burlington, the school from which the current principal came in 2005), and Daniel Davis (who now serves as principal of Carder Elementary School in Corning, New York). Upon McLean's resignation in 2005 to pursue doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to serve as assistant director of the North Carolina Principal's Executive Program, she was succeeded by Gary Thornburg, who had previously served as principal of Walter M. Williams High School. As of 2008, McLean served as principal for four years (including the planning year), while Thornburg has served for three. Dr. McLean now serves as Assistant Superintendent of the Alamance-Burlington School System.
Authorized to offer the IB Diploma Programme since July 2004, Cedar Ridge currently has 54 juniors and seniors enrolled in the two-year IB program at its school. IB students must complete an extended essay and a Theory of Knowledge course to graduate with an IB diploma, and also must obtain 150 CAS (creativity, action, service) hours.
Cedar Ridge High School is also known for its award winning band program under the direction of conductor Patrica Quigley. The program consists of two jazz bands, a marching band, a Symphonic Band, and also a Wind Ensemble.
One of the most active extracurricular organizations on the campus is the Key Club, which, within a year of the school's opening, had grown to over 100 members, had several of its members elected to district office, and was featured in the internationally distributed Keynoter magazine. Anyssa Black was elected international trustee of Key Club International at the 2008 international convention in Orlando, Florida. She was the first Cedar Ridge student to be elected to an international office in the organization.
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