During tonight’s meeting of the Vance County Board of Education, members will discuss the creation of a Vance County Early High School.
This will be the second high school created during the tenure of Superintendent Norm Shearin. The first, Western Vance High School, was put into place to help at-risk high school students graduation.
The Early College High School will help students who are “first generation college bound”.
The new high school will be autonomous within and contiguous to Vance-Granville Community College. It will begin with 60 ninth-graders in the 2008-09 school year and reach a maximum size of 300 students in grades 9-13 when implementation is complete.
The school will have a principal, counselor, administrative support, and a college liaison funded by the state.
The school will use a lottery system for student recruitment that will ensure that selected students represent Vance County Schools total student population while at the same time recruiting under-prepared and under-represented students.