Our mission is to prepare all students to be successful in postsecondary education, the community and workplace by providing each student with a rigorous and relevant academic, character and technological education.
Highland School of Technology is a magnet public high school located in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. It is the first magnet school available to students in the Gaston County Schools public school district and draws students from each of the other nine high schools in the district. The percentage of students at Highland from a particular feeder high school is equal to the overall percentage of that school's students in the district. Students are selected through a lottery among qualified 8th-grade applicants.
The school opened to freshmen and sophomores in the 2000 school year, the first graduating class was in 2003.
Each student enters the school as a member of one of the three academies. Within each academy there are various pathways available for the students, each with its own sequence of required courses.[1] The three academies offered are (effective for the Class of 2015):
Business, Legal Studies, & Information Sciences
Health Sciences and Bio-Technology
Manufacturing and Engineering/Graphics
On July 1, 2013 Lee Dedmon was succeeded by Denise McLean as principal of Highland.
Highland School of Technology is a technology magnet high school located in Gastonia, NC. Our mission is to prepare all students to be successful in post secondary education, the community and workplace by providing each student with a rigorous and relevant academic, character and technological education. Through a lottery process, each of our students enters into one of seven career pathways.
