Bunker Hill High

No school is Perfect and that Includes BHHS. Bunker Hill works hard everyday to make improvements for the better. They are ALL about the students and making them successful not only today but for the future as well.

This review aims at any students with college ambitions along with their parents.I attended Bunker Hill High School (BHHS) 1980-82 before transferring to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) 1982-84. So my firsthand insight is VERY dated. That said, my secondhand insight from current teachers, parents, and students confirms my suspicion that little has changed at BHHS in multiple decades.The main challenge faced at BHHS stems from its location. As a small, rural high school in a poorer district, BHHS faces cultural and financial challenges not faced at larger, urban high schools in wealthier districts. So parents and students who want to extract maximum value from BHHS need to supplement the BHHS curriculum with their own additional efforts.I left BHHS for the "greener pastures" of NCSSM for the aforementioned reasons. I have subsequently learned that any student can take well-reasoned, well-informed steps to create tangible value "in place" at BHHS without having to pull stakes and move halfway across the state into an alien "in loco parentis" environment of high academic challenge, high stress, and loss of control. What I am about to say even makes moving to another local high school or early college questionable.Parents and students need to read HOMESCHOOLING FOR COLLEGE CREDIT by Jennifer Cook DeRosa and apply its lessons to transform any BHHS course into a college credit course. This works by acquiring appropriate study guides for Advanced Placement (AP), College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES), and other placement credit tests related to classes already required at BHHS. Not only will these guides strengthen mastery of the BHHS material, they will prepare students to take and pass these tests for college credit. Moreover, worry over seeking a "better education" elsewhere vanishes once you learn how to get a better education right in your own back yard.Please consider this advice and insight and apply it as soon as possible to make the most of your years at BHHS while saving years of wasted effort and tens of thousands of dollars of squandered money taking college core classes that you could easily complete at BHHS with the right strategies.

If you have a choice, this is not the school for a well rounded education. Both of my children graduated from this school, so I have 6 years experience. The administration is too worried about themselves and their school "grade" to give a hoot about the students. Also,the absence policy is absurd. The faculty cares more about sports wins then education and right and wrong. It is very hard to teach a child good moral values the the adults in their schools contradict everything you have been teaching them. The system needs an overhaul!

I can not believe what I am reading on here. First of all the school does not set the lunch prices, the state does. The attendance policy is set by the school system not the school. For everyone else complaining about the discipline, stay out of trouble and you will not have to worry about being treated unfairly. For the one who spelled principal with an le, well maybe the school has failed you. As a parent of a college student that went to BH, I think the school prepared him very well for college. Chances are all the negative comments would come from these people no matter where they were in school.