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N.O. DOCUMENTS
CLEARINGHOUSE
JUL· 26 1989
N.C. STATE LIBRARY
RALEIGH
The North Carolina
School of Science and Mathematics
A Profile/1987
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics is a public, residential, co-educational high
school for juniors and seniors with high intellectual ability and commitment to scholarship. It was esta­blished
by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1978 to provide challenging educational opportunities
for students with special interest and potential in the sciences and mathematics.
NCSSM is an affiliate school of the University of North Carolina. It is governed by a Board of Trustees
whose members are distinguished in the fields of science, mathematics, education and public service.
The School opened in September 1980 with its first class of 150 juniors, a sample of the many talented and
highly motivated students in North Carolina. While students vary in their backgrounds, representing the
diversity of North Carolina's population, they are similar in their motivation to achieve academically and
in their determination to prepare for professional careers and scientific leadership. At NCSSM, students
pay no fee for tuition or for room and board.
In the fall of 1987, 475 eleventh and twelfth grade students are living and learning at NCSSM.