FAQs

Students take all honors level high school courses required to graduate from high school in North Carolina.

Our focus at CECHS is preparation for post secondary education and life in the 21st century. We aim to equip our students with the classes they will need to achieve future degrees and four year universities and colleges, as well as classes that will help student get jobs immediately after high school. These include college level sciences, foreign languages, history, english, math, health and human services, etc. For more specific questions and answers, please contact us.

To apply to CECHS, students (and/or their parent(s)) should contact their middle school counselor. Applications are due in the spring of the year, and the applying student and at lease one parent must attend one of our interest meetings. 

While there are minimum requirements and a required interview, admission to CECHS is not competitive. However, there are a limited number of spots available, and every year there are more applicants than there are spaces. As a result, a lottery system is used to select students. 

Yes. However, there is no way of knowing how many students will forfeit their space, freeing up space for a student on the waiting list.

Students will find out if they're accepted in late spring the school year before they are to attend CECHS. 

No. CECHS operates on their own school calendar. School usually begins in early August and ends in late May. Also, workdays and the distribution of report card and interim reports occur on different days. 

If any of the zone high schools in the district are closed due to inclement weather, CECHS is closed as well. If schools are delayed, CECHS is delayed as well.

At Cleveland Early College High School, you can earn an Associate of Arts or an Associate of General Education. Both of these degrees include courses generally taken during a college student's first and second year. They include math, science, humanities and foreign languages. 

Cleveland Early College High School offers academic and service club opportunities through National Beta Club, National Honor Society, and Junior Civitan.  On Fridays, CECHS offers a variety of activity options including yearbook, sports, art, event planning, and more.

Because of the workload our students take on, we do not offer organized sports, band, or chorus.  Cleveland Community College has begun offering opportunities for our students including cheer and pep band for athletic events.

Yes, we have a car rider line located at the rear of the LeGrand Center.  Visit our transportation page for more information.

Yes, if a student needs to ride the bus to CECHS, there are yellow busses that will pick up students and take them to their zone school in the morning and shuttle busses from each high school to CECHS. In afternoon, students can ride the shuttle from CECHS to their zone school but must be picked up from their zone school by a parent or guardian.