Woods Charter School

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Woods Charter School is a charter school in Chatham County, North Carolina.Founded in 1998, Woods Charter School is a North Carolina public charter school, serving approximately 500 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Woods offers a challenging college and university preparatory academic program with an emphasis on character development. It has a history of academic success both in the State’s ABC testing and in the AP, SAT and ACT exams. The strengths of Woods Charter School include small classes, close student-teacher relationships that provide for individual student attention and a caring school community of students, faculty, and parents.In 2007, private funding was secured to construct a new school building, and in August 2008, Woods Charter School moved to its current location. Concurrently with the building project, The Woods Charter School Foundation, Inc. was established to raise funds for outfitting the building and meeting the ongoing needs of the school. During the 2016-2017 school year, the school constructed a new third science lab to complement the two existing science labs in the high school wing.The elementary school has approximately 32 students per grade level and average class sizes of 16. Special features of the elementary school include a focus on the Core Knowledge Curriculum, Singapore math, physical education, art, music and French with specialist teachers, regular field trips and outstanding high school students serving as teaching assistants.The middle school has approximately 40 students per grade level and average class sizes of 20. Special features of the middle school include advisory groups which foster quality student-teacher relationships, specialized preparation for high school including an opportunity to enroll in some high school classes, differentiation in mathematics, classes in music and art, as well as World language instruction offering French and Spanish.