Curriculum:

Highland Charter Public School serves kindergarten through second grade students from throughout Gaston County. The North Carolina Standard Course of Study combined with the Core Knowledge curriculum provides a strong instructional program.

Our students are immersed in the basics of literacy and math with a twist of Core Knowledge. However, the basics is not the total of our program. Highland believes children need to experience the world, so experiential learning has always been a component of our curriculum. Expeditionary learning plays an important role in our curriculum.

We recently purchased AlphaSmarts and plan to integrate them into all areas of our curriculum. Each 2nd grade student has an AlphaSmart to use in school, on trips, and at home. Also, our younger students use AlphaSmarts in each class for language activities and other uses as developed by the staff.

The Accelerated Reader program and the Accelerated Math program help our students develop their comprehension and problem solving skills. Our students learn Spanish using videos and computer software.

The best thing about our program is our ability to adapt it to the needs of our students. Our staff is continually working to provide the best
academically for our students.