Raleigh Charter High School challenges college-bound students in a creative and supportive atmosphere to become knowledgeable, thoughtful, contributing citizens.

We graduate citizens of the world by creating an interconnected learning environment that combines a demanding college-preparatory education with a curriculum that teaches and models citizenship skills. We involve our students in many resources of downtown Raleigh—the government, performing arts, social services and the international community. RCHS will be a place of opportunity for highly motivated students and actively involved parents.

Each year our students have distinguished themselves by doing well on the state-mandated End-of-Course tests.

2006 Honor School of Excellence
2005 Honor School of Excellence
2001-2004 School of Excellence
2000 School of Distinction

If you would like to see the 2005-2006 ABC report card for Raleigh Charter High School, please click here.

High-School Reinvention

In September 2005, Raleigh Charter High School was selected by DPI consultants to participate in a program focusing on high-school reinvention. We are one of ten high schools in North Carolina and one of seventy-five schools in ten states. The two primary sponsors of this initiative are the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE, Rexford NY), headed by noted school reformer, Bill Daggett, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCCSO, Washington DC), Tom Houlihan, Executive Director. Dr. Houlihan is an innovative educator; he has been superintendent in Granville and Johnston counties and Education Advisor to Gov. Hunt.

In October, these 75 schools and many others met in Washington for a high-school reinvention symposium. One of the vendor partners in this reformative movement is MetaMetrics Inc. of Durham NC, a company that promotes the lexile approach to reading levels. The vision of the lexile framework for reading is to assign scores to books and other reading materials on a scale from 200L (Danny and the Dinosaur) to 1700L (Descartes’ Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy). Pride and Prejudice is benchmarked at 1100L. Teachers can imagine assigning a text on astronomy at differing lexiles for their students with different reading abilities (also measured in lexiles). Such resources are available through content providers like Gale and EBSCO. North Carolina teachers and students have access to these resources through NC Wise Owl. The use of lexiles is but a small part, though quite visible, of this initiative in reform.

More about this initiative for high-school reinvention will follow. It is wonderful to be part of a school, whose vision is to be innovative and creative while we are attaining and maintaining high academic standards.