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Spartan Counseling & Library

Guidance services are available for EVERY student. Please schedule your appointment during your Release or Intervention Period. To schedule an appointment, go to https://bhs.tsd.org/academics/counseling > click on ‘Appointment Calendar’ for the counselor you wish to schedule an appointment with.  

Services include, but are not limited to:

• academic assistance

• personal/social concerns

• career planning

• any topic a student wants to discuss

Career Academic Plan (ICAP): Each student should have a Career Academic Plan, which takes into account the student's unique interests, talents and goals. The ICAP is a map of where a student is and where he or she is going with a future career. It details what steps a student needs to take during high school and beyond. Talk to your counselor about your ICAP often. To succeed, students need knowledge, skills, and work habits that are common to all careers and others that are specialized.

Graduation Requirements: For the most current requirements visit: https://www.tsd.org/academics/graduation-requirements

Concurrent Enrollment

We are pleased to offer a variety of programs for our high school students. Students can earn both high school and college credit for the same FRCC (Front Range Community College) or Aims course, with no tuition cost to students.

  1. Career Academy: Students participate in college on-campus, year-long Career Technical Education program, for high school students

  2. High School Select: Students take FRCC or Aims classes at their home high school.

  3. Campus Select: Students take FRCC and Aims classes on the college campus.

  4. Ascent: Students remain enrolled at their home high school for a fifth year, and take all classes at FRCC or Aims. Although they are technically still in high school, these students are treated as college students. Students must complete 12 college credits in high school to be eligible to apply for ASCENT.

Learn More about our Concurrent Enrollment Programs and Resources at BHS

TSD Procedure for Choosing Valedictorian & Salutatorian

To determine valedictorian and salutatorian, the high school of attendance will use the following process:

  1. Students must be enrolled in their high school and maintain a full-time schedule throughout their senior year.

  2. All grades, including those in weighted classes, initially will not carry weight (in other words we start with a student’s unweighted cumulative GPA, all A’s will be worth 4 points, B’s worth 3 points, etc.).

  3. At the end of the second semester of the senior year, 0.025 will be added to each student’s cumulative grade point average for every 0.5 high school credit weighted class that is transcripted for which the student received a passing grade of C or higher.

    1. Example: If the student has passed 2 semesters of AP English Lang & Comp, 2 semesters of AP Calc AB, and 1 semester of College Composition 121 at the end of senior year, .125 (5 semesters x .025) will be added to that student’s unweighted cumulative grade point average.

  4.  A student may take weighted classes at any high school in the district or college courses that have been preapproved to qualify for our concurrent enrollment program and receive the .025 weighted credit per 3 credit college course.

• 1 credit college course = .008

• 2 credit college course = .017

• 3 credit college course = .025

• 4 credit college course = .033

• 5 credit college course = .042

• 6 credit college course = .050

  1. After the addition of weighted points, a student will be named valedictorian or salutatorian if he/she has the highest GPA in his/her class, based on courses taken at their high school of attendance.

    1. If another student, whose GPA for courses taken at their high school of attendance is lower than that of student #1, surpasses student #1’s GPA due to weighted classes taken at another school outside of the student’s high school of attendance (i.e high school or college), that student will also be named valedictorian or salutatorian.

    2. example(multiple students)

*Weighted credit=Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or College Credit courses

What does this accomplish?

1. A student is not penalized for taking more classes than someone with “identical” grades who has taken fewer classes.

2. It retains the incentive for taking weighted classes, i.e. classes that are more challenging and academically rigorous.

3. It retains the emphasis on academic excellence.

4. It is a more equitable method for determining Valedictorian and Salutatorian, as it does not penalize students who do not have

transportation available to them to take courses at other schools.

BHS Library

 Library hours: 8:00 am to 4:15 pm each day (including lunch time)

 

Our goal is to provide every student services which support both the acquisition of the best education possible, by providing them with material that supports the curriculum being taught here at BHS, and assistance in developing a lifelong love of reading, by investing in growing and evolving our collection to match students’ interests and needs.  

 

We are here to help students achieve success by empowering them to take full advantage of today’s information and technology and by providing a comfortable place to read, study, complete homework, or spend time on the many activities we offer.  . In the library, students have access to physical print books for academic and pleasure reading, as well as a full complement of databases, eBooks, and audiobooks. Desktop computers and printing are  also available throughout the school day, as well as an audio/video recording area and makerspace in which students can earn service hours. Books and eBooks are checked out for two weeks and can be renewed as necessary. The library also has calculators and chromebooks available for students to check out to use during the day; there is a late fee of $1.00 per day on these items, as they are intended for at most a single-day use.  At the end of each year students will be fined for any lost items checked out from the library.  


If you have any questions you may contact ... Ms. Barrett, Teacher Librarian at 613-7707, or Library Assistant at 613-7727