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Wakefield High School (Raleigh, North Carolina)
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Wakefield High School, is a Wake County
public high school
located in Raleigh
, North Carolina
. The school is situated next to Wakefield Elementary
and Wakefield Middle
schools.
", has four different classes each semester, each period being approximately ninety minutes long. This completes a course in one semester instead of one year, and provides four new classes in the second semester. Students take exams in mid January and again in early June.
In the 2009-2010, the school implemented a different type of lunch period, called "SMART" lunch. Instead of multiple 30 minute lunch periods, a single 55 minute period is established in which all students and staff eat lunch together. Many school clubs are held during the lunch period.
Wakefield High School offers numerous Advanced Placement(AP) courses. AP classes offered at Wakefield include the following: AP English IV, AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A, AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP European History, AP Human Geography, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Economics, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Music Theory, AP Visual Arts-Drawing, and AP Visual Arts-3D Design.
4A classification in the CAP 7 conference (through 2009). Wakefield's biggest rivalry in sports is with the cross-town Wake Forest-Rolesville Cougars
. Another big rival is the Millbrook Wildcats.
Wakefield currently has the following sports programs:
Fall Sports - Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Football, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, and Women's Volleyball
Winter Sports - Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Cheerleading, Women's Gymnastics, Indoor Track, Ice Hockey, Swimming, Wrestling, and Diving
Spring Sports - Baseball, Men's Golf, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's Tennis, Track, Women's Soccer, and Softball
Year Round - Sports Medicine, Cheerleading
Basketball - The men's basketball team has won the state 4A title twice. (2004 & 2006) In 2004, they capped an amazing run to the championship by beating perennial power RJ Reynolds. The team included 8 future college basketball players.http://www.nchsaa.org/pdf/1132B.pdf. In 2007 the basketball team won sectional in Men's varsity. The girls basketball team has won the CAP 7 conference the last three years in a row.
Lacrosse - Lacrosse with both men's and women's teams began at Wakefield during the 2003 school year. Wakefield was one of eight high schools in Wake County to have a lacrosse program in 2003. A JV men's team was added in 2004. A JV women's team was added in 2007. There are now more than 130 students participating in lacrosse at Wakefield. The men's team won the Capital City East Conference Title in 2006. Both the men's and women's teams earned their way to the state championship playoffs in 2006.
Wrestling - In 2004, the Wrestling Team won the CAP-7 Conference Tournament. At the 2007-08 CAP-7 wrestling tournament, the Wolverines placed 4th out of 7th thanks to help from Captains Gray Gerald and Andrew Killion, with their 1st place wins, junior Andrew Barnes with a 3rd place win freshman Eric White with their 4th place wins.
Football - In 2005, the football team ended the regular season undefeated, winning the Cap-7 conference title. The Wolverines ended the 2005 season with a 14-1 record, the best in school history.
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Wake County Public School System
The Wake County Public School System is a public school district located in Wake County, North Carolina. With 143,289 students enrolled in 163 schools as of the 2010/11 academic year, it is the largest public school district in North Carolina and the 17th largest district in the United States.-...
public high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
. The school is situated next to Wakefield Elementary
Wakefield Elementary School
Wakefield Elementary School is a multitrack year-round in the Wake County Public School System public. The elementary school is located in north Raleigh, North Carolina, and is named for the street it is on, Wakefield Pines Drive. Wakefield Elementary is situated near Wakefield Middle School and...
and Wakefield Middle
Wakefield Middle School
Wakefield Middle School is a traditional calendar middle school in the Wake County Public School System. The school, located in northern Raleigh, North Carolina, serves more than 1200 students.-History:...
schools.
Schedule
The school year at Wakefield High School starts in late August and ends in early June. The class schedule, commonly referred to as "block schedulingBlock scheduling
Block scheduling is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day but each class is scheduled for a longer period of time . A student might be taking 7 different classes, but only 4 per day, and the specific daily classes would rotate through a changing daily cycle...
", has four different classes each semester, each period being approximately ninety minutes long. This completes a course in one semester instead of one year, and provides four new classes in the second semester. Students take exams in mid January and again in early June.
In the 2009-2010, the school implemented a different type of lunch period, called "SMART" lunch. Instead of multiple 30 minute lunch periods, a single 55 minute period is established in which all students and staff eat lunch together. Many school clubs are held during the lunch period.
Wakefield High School offers numerous Advanced Placement(AP) courses. AP classes offered at Wakefield include the following: AP English IV, AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A, AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP European History, AP Human Geography, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Economics, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Music Theory, AP Visual Arts-Drawing, and AP Visual Arts-3D Design.
Wakefield North
A new addition to Wakefield High School for the 2007-2008 school year is a new campus. While it is officially known as "Wakefield North," students commonly refer to it as "Wakefield at the Dixie." This campus will serve as a Freshmen Center, and is intended to ease the overcrowding that has been a recent issue at the school. Wakefield North is located at the former Winn-Dixie supermarket just a few minutes from Wakefield's main campus. Freshmen enrolled in fine arts classes or higher level academic courses are shuttled to and from the main campus periodically throughout the day, since these courses are only taught on the main campus.Athletics at Wakefield
Wakefield's students compete in the NCHSAANorth Carolina High School Athletic Association
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is the governing organization of high school athletics in North Carolina, United States. The association maintains the official rule books and governs the officiating standards across the state....
4A classification in the CAP 7 conference (through 2009). Wakefield's biggest rivalry in sports is with the cross-town Wake Forest-Rolesville Cougars
Wake Forest-Rolesville High School
Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, is a four year high school located in Wake Forest, North Carolina.Dr. Tina Hoots served as principal, taking over from Mr. Andre Smith in early 2009 when he was promoted to district superintendent. However, Mr Clinton Robinson took over as principal for the...
. Another big rival is the Millbrook Wildcats.
Wakefield currently has the following sports programs:
Fall Sports - Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Football, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, and Women's Volleyball
Winter Sports - Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Cheerleading, Women's Gymnastics, Indoor Track, Ice Hockey, Swimming, Wrestling, and Diving
Spring Sports - Baseball, Men's Golf, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's Tennis, Track, Women's Soccer, and Softball
Year Round - Sports Medicine, Cheerleading
Basketball - The men's basketball team has won the state 4A title twice. (2004 & 2006) In 2004, they capped an amazing run to the championship by beating perennial power RJ Reynolds. The team included 8 future college basketball players.http://www.nchsaa.org/pdf/1132B.pdf. In 2007 the basketball team won sectional in Men's varsity. The girls basketball team has won the CAP 7 conference the last three years in a row.
Lacrosse - Lacrosse with both men's and women's teams began at Wakefield during the 2003 school year. Wakefield was one of eight high schools in Wake County to have a lacrosse program in 2003. A JV men's team was added in 2004. A JV women's team was added in 2007. There are now more than 130 students participating in lacrosse at Wakefield. The men's team won the Capital City East Conference Title in 2006. Both the men's and women's teams earned their way to the state championship playoffs in 2006.
Wrestling - In 2004, the Wrestling Team won the CAP-7 Conference Tournament. At the 2007-08 CAP-7 wrestling tournament, the Wolverines placed 4th out of 7th thanks to help from Captains Gray Gerald and Andrew Killion, with their 1st place wins, junior Andrew Barnes with a 3rd place win freshman Eric White with their 4th place wins.
Football - In 2005, the football team ended the regular season undefeated, winning the Cap-7 conference title. The Wolverines ended the 2005 season with a 14-1 record, the best in school history.
Wakefield Theatre Company
The school's theatre program was founded at the same time as the school itself. The program was established to teach students about the performing artsPerforming arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
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