About NKHS

Objectives

• To provide an environment that promotes learning.
• To help the student be prepared to cope with a swiftly changing world.
• To provide individual instruction for each student to adequately meet his/her needs.
• To provide a variety of instructional methods, materials, media and innovations to accommodate different modes of learning.
• To encourage students to make good decisions and be responsible for their actions.
• To provide students the opportunities to develop critical thinking skills and apply them in concrete situations.
• To provide students with communication skills, both oral and written, that allow them to be successful in today's world.
• To provide the opportunity for each student to become computer literate.
• To help students develop positive attitudes toward their school and community.
• To help students improve his/her self-image and work habits.
• To awaken within the student a zest for life-long learning.
• To provide the student with a foundation for post-secondary education.
• To provide various courses and programs that will provide students with marketable skills after graduation.
• To expose students to the library and all of its services so they will experience the library as a familiar resource that promotes learning.
• To help the student recognize the rights and duties of a citizen in a democratic society.
• To provide a student activities program to meet the aesthetic, recreational, social and emotional interests of students.
• To make the facilities and services of New Kent High School available to the community for recreational, vocational, academic and cultural activities.