Mount Tabor High School
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Mount Tabor High School is a high school
High school
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located in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
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. It is part of the WS/FCS School System
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is a school district in Forsyth County, North Carolina. WS/FCS has over 75 schools in its system, and it serves over 53,300 students every year. WS/FCS was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Forsyth County School System and the Winston-Salem School System...
. As of 2010, Mount Tabor has a student population of over 1,600 9th through 12th grade students and is a North Carolina 4A school. Mount Tabor was previously part of the Metro 4-A Conference, but is currently a member of the Central Piedmont Conference. In 2010, Mount Tabor was ranked #295 out of the top 1,600 United States
United States
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high schools. Mount Tabor is known rivals with nearby Reynolds High School
Richard J. Reynolds High School
Richard J. Reynolds High School now the Richard J. Reynolds Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts is a high school in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Named for R. J. Reynolds, the founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the...
and, more recently, Reagan High School
Ronald W. Reagan High School
Ronald Wilson Reagan High School is a high school under the direction of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools system. It is located in Pfafftown, North Carolina and has a student population of approximately 1700 as of the 2011/12 school year. The school is newly constructed and began...
when Reagan's opening redistricted several middle schools into Reagan.
School Demographics
During the 2009-2010 school year, there were 1,683 students enrolled at Mount Tabor. The racial makeup of the students was 48.8% White, 36.94% Black, 6.66% Hispanic, 4.5% Multiracial, 2.92% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.18% American Indian. 23% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.School History
Mount Tabor High School was opened as a 8-11 grade school at the beginning of the 1966-1967 school year. The following year the 12th grade was added, graduating its first class of students in 1968. In 1971, the school district reorganized schools and changed Mount Tabor to a Jr. High School for grades 9 and 10. In 1984 it was changed again to a 9-12 grade high school. A new building containing a new auditorium, new guidance and administration offices, and several classrooms and science labs, was opened in 2004.Academics
In the 2009-2010 school year, the average daily attendance rate was 93%. 79.3% of students showed proficiency on the state end-of-course exams. 5% of students were enrolled in Advanced Placement courses, and 9% were enrolled in Career and Technical Education classes. The graduation rate was 86.5%. 98% of the teachers were fully licensed, 94% were highly qualified, 35% had advanced degrees, and 57% had been teaching for more than ten years. The average student-teacher ratio in required courses was 23:1. Mount Tabor was 5th out of 17 high schools in the district in End-of-Course testing. Of the 75% of 12th grade students who had taken the SATSAT
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, the average composite score was 1050 out of 1600.
The school offers several Advanced Placement classes, which are listed below:
- Calculus (AB)
- English Language and Composition
- English Literature and Composition
- Environmental Science
- Human Geography
- Psychology
- U.S. History
- World History
Students are offered many more AP classes, as well as vocational classes, at the Career Center
Career Center
The Career Center is a high school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It offers an extension to the regular high school program. Classes offered include Advanced Placement courses, career and technical education courses, as well as English and other classes too small to be held at the...
.
Athletics
Mount Tabor High School hosts many athletics programs each year, a full list of which includes footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, soccer, cheerleading
Cheerleading
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, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
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, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, tennis
Tennis
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, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, hockey
Hockey
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, wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
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, and track and field
Track and field
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. Students with a Grade Point Average of at least 2.0 and a current physical may try out for athletic teams. Its sports teams have won several state championships. The 2011 Cross Country team was ranked 2nd in the preseason for Division 4A schools across the state. Recently, the football team made a run in the state playoffs to the championship game. Mount Tabor was also Central Piedmont Conference champions in every fall sport during the 2007-2008 season, and the 2008-2009 Spartan basketball team won the NCHSAA 4-A State Championship for the first time in school history. Mount Tabor is often recognized for its superior sports teams, and has been noted many times on WXII's high school playbook.
Clubs
Mount Tabor High School offers a variety of student clubs. Some of the clubs available to students are listed below. Students can start their own club at any time, and not all student organizations (especially those with political affiliation) are officially recognized by the school administration.- Academic TeamAcademic Competition (WSFCS)Academic Competition is a program sponsored by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District. Academic Competition features high school students from the 10 schools across the county in weekly competition...
- Asian Student Association
- Allegacy Student Credit Union
- Apollo Ten (male a capella group)
- Art Club
- Book Club
- Chemistry Club
- Chess Club
- Computer Club
- Creative Writing Club
- Crosby Scholars
- Debate TeamNational Forensic LeagueThe National Forensic League is a non-partisan, non-profit educational honor society established to encourage and motivate American high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation. NFL is the America's oldest and largest...
- Domestique
- Drama Club/International Thespian SocietyInternational Thespian SocietyThe International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...
- Ebony Society
- Environmental Club
- FCA (Fellowship Of Christian Athletes)
- French Club
- Future Business Leaders of AmericaFBLA-PBLThe Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, or FBLA-PBL, is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia...
(FBLA) - Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)
- Future Teachers of America (FTA)
- Gay-Straight AllianceGay-straight allianceGay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
(GSA) - German Club
- Gospel Choir
- Habitat ClubHabitat for Humanity InternationalHabitat For Humanity International , generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" housing, a self-described "Christian housing ministry." The international...
- HumanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
Club - ICC (Inter-Club Council)
- Indian Club
- Japanese Culture Club
- Jazz Band
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- LatinLatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
Club - Marching Spartans
- Math Club
- National Art Honor Society
- National Honor SocietyNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
(NHS) - National Technical Honor Society (NTHS)
- Ping-Pong Club
- Red Cross
- Robotics Club
- SADD/SAVE (Students Against Destructive Decisions/Students Against Violence Everywhere)
- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Club - Spartan Club
- Spartanettes (female singing group)
- Spartanites (dancers)
- S.P.O.T.S (Spontaneous People On The Stage)
- STAND Club (Students Taking Action Now, Darfur)
- Step Team
- Tabor Girls Council (TGC)
- Teen Democrats
- The Filmmakers' Guild
- Young RepublicansYoung RepublicansThe Young Republicans is an organization for members of the Republican Party of the United States between the ages of 18 and 40. It has both a national organization and chapters in individual states....
- Youth and Government