Newcastle offers over 30 different electives. Students also have the opportunity to take college courses their junior and senior years through Oklahoma City Community College and Redlands Community College. Students also are able to enroll in classes at Mid-America Career and Technology Center their junior and senior years of high school.
Graduating Requirements
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Requirements reflect 25 Units
4 years of English
3 units of math, science, & Social Studies must be taken in grades 9-12
Students must pass the Algebra I EOI, the English II EOI, and two of the remaining five EOIs.
NCAA, Oklahoma’s Promise, and the College Prep/Work-Ready curriculum have additional eligibility requirements.
Nationally Certified Teachers
Newcastle High School has three Nationally Board Certified Teachers. National Board Certification is awarded to accomplished teachers who have gone above and beyond what is expected. Applicants must submit ten assessments to the board, which are reviewed by trained teachers.
Awards
ACT Oklahoma 2011 College Readiness Award
The recognition means each school has shown a significant increase in its ACT composite score over the past five years, while at the same time increasing the number of students taking the ACT assessment. The result is a greater number of Oklahoma students prepared for college.
Only 5 percent of the high schools in Oklahoma were able to achieve the 2011 College Readiness Award. But, more than 76 percent of Oklahoma students took the ACT in 2011 – an all-time high.
State Champions: Ashley Bryant- Shot Put Katie Riojas- 300H
Boys' Soccer
Girls' Soccer
Baseball
Golf
Bond Issue Information
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Bond Overview
To date, the bond projects that have been completed include the new wellness center, field house and concession stand/bathrooms, artificial turf football field, technology and transportation upgrades, bleachers in the middle school gym, and a transportation maintenance facility. The 25,000 square foot, 700-seat auditorium, and the 9,500 square foot library on the Newcastle High School campus is set to be complete for the 2012-2013 school year. The auditorium addition also includes a new vocal music classroom, which currently meets in the band room, and a new drama classroom.
Bond Facts
Voters approved the $50.5 million bond in December 2009.
A majority of bond projects have already been completed, leaving only the auditorium, high school classrooms and library addition and Early Childhood Center remaining.
All are slated to be complete in time for the start of the 2012-2013 school year.
Kahle Wilson of Design Architects Plus has designed all of the bond construction projects for Newcastle Schools.
