Charlestown High School (Indiana) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Official name	Charlestown Senior High School
Principal	Keith Hedges
School type	Public
Operated by	Greater Clark County Schools
Location	#1 Pirate Place, Charlestown Charlestown, Indiana -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 5,993 people, 2,341 households, and 1,615 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,570.0 people per square mile . There were 2,489 housing units at an average density of 1,067.4 per square mile... , Clark County, Indiana Clark County, Indiana Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana, located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. At the 2010 Census, the population was 110,232. The county seat is Jeffersonville. Clarksville is also a major city in the county... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Grades	9-12
Original School Founded	1878 (in the old courthouse)
Current School Founded	1954
Renovations	1979, 1997, 2010
Information current as of	2011
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Conference	Mid-Southern
School Colors	Royal Blue and White
Enrollment size	750 (est.)
Teams	Pirates and Lady Pirates

Charlestown High School is located in the northeastern part of Charlestown, Indiana

Charlestown, Indiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 5,993 people, 2,341 households, and 1,615 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,570.0 people per square mile . There were 2,489 housing units at an average density of 1,067.4 per square mile...

. Charlestown is in the southeastern part of Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

, not far from Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

. Charlestown's teams are known as the Pirates, a pattern that descends down to Charlestown's middle and elementary schools. In the 2010-2011 school year it had a student population of nearly 740; the original school could hold 700. This substantial growth was from the new laptop initiative (mentioned below), the new school construction, and many other factors.

On November 14, 2006, the Greater Clark County Schools board voted 7-0 to build a new Charlestown High School. The new school would consist of 100 acres (as opposed to the current building's 30-40 acres) and is intended to educate 900 to over 1000 students. Students were officially allowed into the new Charlestown High School on January 4, 2010. The whole school was expected to be finished by no later than 2011. The last basketball game played in Charlestown High School's Dunn Arena was on February 26, 2010, the arena was 55 years old. It was torn down along with many other parts of the original school for the new schools construction.
The new state-of-the-art facility includes a massive Wireless Internet network, a smart board in every classroom, a new athletic complex, new baseball and softball fields, a much larger cafeteria, a much larger library, and could hold a total of 1050 students. Many of the lights within the school include motion sensors as well. The school also included its own filtration system which is said to have some of the cleanest water in the City of Charlestown. There were also many features that made the school energy efficient. The school officially held its 'Dedication Ceremony' and allowed tours of the new high school to the public on October 31, 2010, and the new high school was almost 100% complete at that time. Many people who had gone to the school when it was originally built, back in the mid-1950s, attended the event and were quite pleased with all of the changes made within the school.

One-To-One Initiative
On November 3, 2010, the school began its one-to-one computer initiative, where every student in the school was issued an Apple MacBook

MacBook

The MacBook was a brand of Macintosh notebook computers built by Apple Inc. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12-inch PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple–Intel transition. Positioned as the low end of the MacBook family, the Apple MacBook was aimed at the...

computer to be used during school. Students also had the choice to take the laptops home if they paid the Insurance for them. Students on free or reduced lunch got lower costs on insurance as well. Soon after, Charlestown Middle School used this program in their classrooms.

After the initiative was launched, there were many notable changes in the schools curriculum. There were many new technology courses offered as well as certifications. Many students changed from using text books in every class to using online textbooks and teachers began to use digital copies of assignments and study guides within their classrooms. A notable thing for the 2010 School Year was the fact that the graduation rate went up a substantial amount, and was up to almost 80%. College application rates went up as well. Though this could have also had a bit to do with the new lesson plans and initiatives teachers implemented within the school.

Other Schools in the Greater Clark County School District:

Jeffersonville High School Jeffersonville High School Jeffersonville High School, home of the red devils, was founded in 1871-1872. Originally located in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana, in the early 1970s a new, larger campus was constructed on the outer eastern edge of the city...	Charlestown Senior High School	New Washington High School	Parkview Middle School
River Valley Middle School	Charlestown Middle School	New Washington Middle School	Bridgepoint Elementary School
Jonathan Jennings Elementary School	Maple Elementary School	New Washington Elementary School	Northaven Elementary School
Parkwod Elementary School	Pleasant Ridge Elementary School	Riverside Elementary School	Spring Hill Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	Utica Elementary School	Wilson Elementary School

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