High School Growth
 

Jackson Day School (JDS) made a conscious decision to grow our school enrollment slower, despite the waitlist, allowing our staff to focus on acclimating new students both academically and behaviorally. JDS enrolls most of our new students in K-9 and enrolls very few students in 10-12 grade. Students entering 10-12 are siblings of already enrolled students or children of staff members. We admit 100-120 students each year; 60 of the available spaces are taken by incoming Kindergarten students, leaving an average of 6-8 open seats in grades 1-9. JDS open enrollment period is between November and February each year and the annual lottery for the following year's enrollment occurs each March.  

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Our high school is growing slower than other grade levels due to JDS's decision not to enroll new students in grades 10-12.  We are growing our high school body by moving up students from lower grade levels. JDS's 2025 Senior class has 36 students, and our 2024/25 Freshmen class has 76 students.  Over the next four years, our high school will double in size and continue to grow until we reach 384 students in 9-12 by 2026.  

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High School Curriculum   
 

Jackson Day School (JDS) accredited by Cognia, offers three high school academic tracks: College Preparatory, Career Preparatory, and Occupational Course of Study.  Students complete eight courses a year on a semester-long schedule.  We offer advanced coursework through The Voyager Program, our dual enrollment program.  Eligible students can begin taking college coursework in grade 10 through our partnership with Belmont Abbey.  Typically students on this track complete fifty or more college credits by the time they graduate high school.  Students can also become eligible to take college or career preparatory coursework in grades 11-12 through CCP at Central Piedmont Community College.  

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Sixty percent of JDS's 2024 senior class have taken college or career preparatory coursework through the Voyager Program and one-third of JDS's 2025 senior class will graduate with fifty or more college credits.  JDS maintains a greater than 95% graduation and college acceptance rate, 100% in 2021. 

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McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is the primary piece of federal legislation dealing with the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is also known as Title IX, Part A, of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA). The act was created to assist qualifying students in meeting the basic needs in order to achieve academic success.

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Homeless students are children and youth who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. Unaccompanied youth includes a youth who is not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian or lacks fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence. Homeless children and youth include those students who are as follows:

• sharing the house of other people due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;

• living in motels, hotels, transient trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;

• living in emergency or transitional shelters;

• living in a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings;

• living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings; or

• living in a migratory situation that qualifies as homeless because the child lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence

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Children and youth experiencing homelessness have the right to:

• Receive a free, appropriate public

• Enroll in school immediately, even if lacking documents normally required for enrollment.

• Enroll in school and attend classes while the school gathers needed

• Enroll in the local attendance area school or continue attending their school of origin (the school they attended when permanently housed or the school in which they were last enrolled), if that is the parent's, guardian's, or unaccompanied youth's preference is feasible. If the school district believes the school selected is not in the student's best interest, then the district must provide the parent, guardian, or unaccompanied youth with a written explanation of its position and inform him/her of the right to appeal its decision.

• Receive transportation to and from the school of origin, if requested by the parent, guardian, or unaccompanied youth.

• Receive educational services comparable to those provided to other students, according to the student's --

 

• NCHEP Profile page: https://hepnc.uncg.edu/about/

• NCHE NC State page: http://profiles.nche.seiservices.com/StateProfile.aspx?StateID=33

 

More information HERE

Contact: Vermaine Shelton: vshelton@jacksonday.org

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