Academics
Reagan is rated as one of the top ten schools in the state of North Carolina. As of the 2011/2012 school year, 93% of students met proficiency levels on state tests, the highest level of any high school in the WS/FCS district. Reagan has a graduation rate of 94.1%, also ranking number one for the county. The average reading and writing scores for the SAT sit 73 points over the state average. Over half of the junior and senior class enroll themselves into college level, Advanced Placement classes.
The school's publications, The Rooster and The Nexus, have won numerous awards. The Nexus won the Tarheel publication award of North Carolina for its 08/09 yearbook.
For three consecutive years, Reagan's academic team won the Academic Competition championship against West Forsyth High School in 2007, R.J. Reynolds High School in 2008, and Mount Tabor High School in 2009. The academic team won another championship in 2011 beating R.J. Reynolds High School in a close championship game and lost the 2013 championship match by a margin of just eight points to R.J. Reynolds (226-218) after an unexpected comeback in the social studies round in which the team rose from a seventeen point deficit to a five point lead.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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