At Greg Mathis Charter High School, we are dedicated to helping all students develop the world-class skills outlined in the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate. Our comprehensive approach ensures that our standards, curriculum, instruction, assessments, professional development, and learning environment are meticulously aligned to foster improved and sustained student outcomes. We focus specifically on the four critical areas that prepare students for future success: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. As we present our Annual School Report for 2024-2025, we are proud to share our continued progress and the strategic initiatives that have contributed to our students' achievements.
Literacy remains the cornerstone of our educational approach. In alignment with the district's goal of ensuring all children read at grade level, we have implemented reading across the curriculum as a universal instructional focus. All teachers receive continuous coaching and support to enhance critical reading skills among our students. Our school wide reading initiative incorporates specific goals that emphasize essential skills such as close reading and conducting text-dependent analysis using multi-disciplinary texts. Each student's progress is tracked weekly against standards-based benchmarks, allowing for timely interventions when needed. To support diverse learning needs, we utilize evidence-based adaptive digital curricula that provide rigorous, differentiated grade-level texts. These resources are specifically designed to strengthen inferential and critical reading skills, which are fundamental to academic success across all subject areas.
Our teachers are equipped with differentiated professional development opportunities that enable them to deliver instruction that is developmentally appropriate, differentiated, and data-driven across various subject areas. This professional growth directly translates to enhanced classroom experiences for our students. We believe that effective education must be responsive to individual student needs. Our teachers systematically analyze student performance data to identify instructional gaps and implement targeted intervention strategies. These interventions include placing students into flexible groups and learning centers specifically designed to address their individual learning requirements. This approach is not static but dynamic, with groupings regularly adjusted based on academic progress monitoring data.
Beyond academic support, we recognize that student success depends on comprehensive development. Our integrated approach includes restorative practices, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), daily behavioral coaching, and weekly mental health counseling. These programs provide our students with valuable social and emotional learning support, helping them develop the essential soft skills needed to successfully navigate future career or college pathways.
During the 2024-2025 school year, we continued the trend of increasing our graduation rate. We were also able to have 62% of our students complete the CareerSafe OSHA certification and 84% of our students participated in our STEM program focusing on indoor Hydroponics. Students continued to successfully grow vegetables which they also ate during school wide nutrition sessions. As a result of the focus and support that we provide students as an Alternative Education Campus, 97% of our qualified seniors graduated in May 2025. By continuing our ongoing progress monitoring and the transference of our data into actionable steps using quick cycles of correction, our students will continue to succeed in the 2025-2026 school year.
Natrice I. Henriques, Principal
Darrell Chaplin, SIC Chairman
