Highland School of Technology

Highland School of Technology is a magnet public high school located in Gastonia, North Carolina. It is the first magnet school available to students in the Gaston County Schools public school district and draws students from each of the other nine high schools in the district. The percentage of students at Highland from a particular feeder high school is equal to the overall percentage of that school's students in the district. Students are selected through a lottery among qualified 8th-grade applicants.[2]

Highland School of Technology
Address
1600 North Morris St

28052

United States
Coordinates35°16′49″N 81°11′26″W
Information
Motto"A world class school educating world class students"
Established2000 (2000)
School districtGaston County Schools
CategoryMagnet school
CEEB code341450
PrincipalJames Montgomery
Staff40.00 (FTE)[1]
Enrollment554 (2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.85[1]
Color(s)Royal blue and gold
  
Athletics conferenceSouthern Piedmont (1A/2A)
Team nameRams
RivalsBessemer City High School
Cherryville High School
Websitegaston.k12.nc.us/Domain/29

The school opened to freshmen and sophomores in the 2000 school year. The first graduating class was in 2003.

Highland School of Technology has had four principals: David Baldaia, who was the school's inaugural principal, but he left without serving a year to start Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system.

Lee Dedmon UNC Center "6 foot 11 and 3/4" [3] became the principal in 2001 and remained at the helm until July 1, 2013 when he retired and was succeeded by Denise McLean as principal of Highland. McLean had at one time served as Dedmon's assistant principal at HST.[4]

On June 27, 2019, James Montgomery was assigned by the school board to become principal for the 201920 school year. Elizabeth Leonard serves as assistant principal and Forshee Blair serves as athletic director.[5]

Campus and facilities

Highland School was remodeled from the former Highland Junior High School. The new configuration of the hallways has three hallways, a gymnasium, and a football field. The halls are labeled A, B and C, and are quasi-sorted by career-technical academy. For example, the A hall has all of the medical classrooms, such as the dental lab located in the vicinity. There are two commons areas: Medford Commons, in which all students congregate and socialize before going to classrooms, and Times Square, where the halls meet.

Vocational academies

Each student enters the school as a member of one of the three academies. Within each academy there are various pathways available for the students, each with its own sequence of required courses.[2] The three academies offered are (effective for the Class of 2015):

  • Business, Legal Studies, & Information Sciences
  • Health Sciences
  • Manufacturing and Engineering/Graphics

References

  1. "Highland Sch of Technology". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  2. Official Highland website Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2008-07-24.
  3. "Lee Dedmon Center UNC". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2013-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Staff Directory". Gaston County Schools. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
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