Catawba Rosenwald Education Center

About Us

Welcome to Catawba Rosenwald Education Center!

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Small School-Big Mission: Providing Opportunity to Find a Path Forward
Catawba Rosenwald Education Center serves students in grades 7-12 from across Catawba County Schools. As the secondary alternative school for Catawba County Schools, we blend academic instruction with behavior and social emotional learning to guide students on their path forward.

Middle school students receive instruction in all core academic areas, as well as art and P.E. as daily electives. High school students also receive core academic instruction, in-person electives (art, P.E. and business) and credit recovery courses and online electives through Edmentum courseware.

Behavior instruction and social emotional learning are woven into daily practice at Catawba Rosenwald; students learn to take responsibility for their own behavior and choices through our Cobra system and are given the strategies and skills they need to be successful on their chosen path. Our student services team works closely with students and teachers to help students grow and succeed while attending Catawba Rosenwald.

High school juniors and seniors may also participate in the Career and College Promise (CCP) program at Catawba Valley Community College, which allows students to earn tuition free college credits while still enrolled in high school. Programs include welding, automotive, computer technology and many others.

Whether a student attends Catawba Rosenwald for one semester or stays until graduation, they will always find the opportunity for a new path forward.

Contact
Timothy Adams
Principal
828.241.2734
email

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The Health & Safety of our Staff & Students is a Top Priority

We take proactive steps to ensure the safety of every student, teacher and administrator, relying on both state-of-the-art and common-sense solutions to protect our schools.

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We are Happily Making Education Better by:

Ensuring a safe and healthy environment for students and staff
Helping our students graduate career- and college-ready
Focusing on Cooperation, Oral Communication, Being Respectful, Responsibility, Attitude Positive and Safety through the Cobras Behavior System
Providing workforce development through College and Career Promise Program
Personalizing our students’ education by getting to know each student’s unique academic, social, and emotional needs
Providing students with technology as a tool for personalized learning including Chromebooks for each student

Accountability is Important

We strive for academic excellence, which is why we take the grade we receive on our NC School Report Card (an annual statewide measure of school performance) seriously. In addition, we submit our School Improvement Plan for review and approval as required by state regulations, and our team revises that plan’s goals and strategies regularly. Feel free to explore the links below.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction provides its own "report card" about public schools in North Carolina. Report cards are released annually with a snapshot of each school - including student performance, class size, attendance, school safety, instructional resources, and teacher quality in our schools. Additionally, each school in the state receives a letter grade of A, B, C, D or F.

To assign an overall school performance grade, which is comprised of 80% proficiency and 20% growth, the state uses end-of-grade testing in elementary and middle schools and end-of-course exams plus other indices such as ACT scores, graduation rates, a measure of math rigor, WorkKeys scores, and EL progress. While proficiency demonstrates a student’s performance level in a subject area, growth measures the amount of academic progress a student makes over the course of a year or class.

Personalized learning is essential to each student, ensuring that every student experiences growth regardless of where they are on their educational journey.

This school report card is for Catawba Rosenwald (the school). This does not represent ESTEEM, the program that is also located at the Catawba Rosenwald Education Center. Therefore, if your child is a part of the ESTEEM program, their numbers are not represented in this data from the state. The ESTEEM student's data is reported as a part of their school of origin, i.e. Bunker Hill, Saint Stephens, Maiden, Fred T. Foard, Bandy's.

We invite you to view our report card using the button below.

View Our Report Card
We believe that the key to making education better at our school is to consistently analyze what we're doing well and and to look for ways we can improve. Like all schools in our district, we have a team of people who meet regularly to discuss ideas for improving our school and teaching methods. Our team also meets to discuss concerns and issues pertaining to our students, teachers, and staff.

All North Carolina Schools are required to submit a School Improvement Plan (SIP) to the local board of education for review and approval is required by state regulations. Yearly, the team revises our School Improvement Plan which outlines goals and strategies.

We utilize a web-based school improvement planning tool called NCStar. NCStar contains over 100 research-based effective practices (indicators) that we personalize to meet our school's and district's needs.

We invite you to view our SIP on NCStar. It is view-only, but allows "real-time" transparency of our school improvement plan process to everyone - all staff, district personnel, school board members, parents, and community members.

View our School Improvement Plan

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This service is designed to help you anonymously and securely report anything that's scaring or endangering you, your friends or your family. You don't need to be afraid to contact us. You never have to give us your name if you don't want to.

We take your security seriously at Catawba County Schools, and we will do everything we can to resolve your concern as quickly and as safely as possible.

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