Students
Olympic is one of a handful of high schools in CMS that straddle the line between a comparable number of low-performing, primarily urban schools and high-performing, primarily suburban schools, and thus its student body largely mirrors the district as a whole. For comparison, Olympic has an ethnic makeup of 44.3% Black, 34.4% White, 14.2% Hispanic, 6.0% Asian and 1.2% Other (in the 2005-06 school year). CMS' demographics are 42.4% Black, 36.2% White, 13.6% Hispanic, 4.3% Asian and 3.5% Other. Its pass rate on the 2006-07 North Carolina End-of-Course tests, used to sample knowledge and mastery of subject areas most students take as freshmen and sophomores, was 63.2%, near the CMS average of 65.7%.
The graduating class of 2006, around 300 students, received $2.3 million in scholarships.
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