Where Success Is Made Simple and Education is Personalized

Welcome to Phoenix Academy High School, member institution Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools. The school serves between 35-45 students between ninth and twelfth grades. The school is the designated alternative school for the district. Phoenix Academy High School's primary focus is to help students to learn, to succeed, and to lead. The school also provides and evening school program in order to serve students with other unique life circumstances.

Phoenix Academy High School Announcements

Exemplary School

This year Phoenix Academy High School was recognized as an "Exemplary Positive Behavior Intervention Support School. Our staff has diligently worked to establish a safe and caring environment for every student and family being served by the Phoenix Academy High School staff. Exemplary recognition is the highest level of achievement available at the State level recognition program for PBIS. I shout out to those involved in making this happen.

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Mr. Clyde McPherson was selected as the 2017-2018 Phoenix Academy High School Teacher of the Year.

Mr. McPherson currently serves as the lead Social Studies teacher at PAHS. He has been in the district and assigned to Phoenix Academy for over 6 years. Mr. McPherson is a leader and continues to be an inspiration for all staff and students. He has worked several positions in the past with one of the more significant of those positions being his active service as a member of the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

Mr. McPherson is a walking encyclopedia. His understanding of history and his personal life stories are captivating and often lead students into becoming hungry for more knowledge about current and past world events.

You may reach him at: Cmcpherson@chccs.k12.nc.us



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Phoenix Academy Hosts Guest Artist to Create Mural

The stage at one end of the gymnasium at Phoenix Academy High School often goes unused for days at a time, but recently the school’s Art Club has been working with artist Delaney Susi to create three brilliantly colored panels that will form a mural for installation next door at Lincoln Center, the school district’s central offices.

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Phoenix Academy HS Celebrates Anniversary at Annual Dinner

Every December, Phoenix Academy High School celebrates its close-knit community by hosting a dinner, and guests fill the holiday-decorated gym to enjoy fellowship and a generous, delicious meal provided by the Tabernacle Christian Center.

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CHCCS Employees Among the Nation’s Newest National Board Certified Teachers

North Carolina leads the country in National Board Certified Teachers

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CHCCS Holds Swearing-In for School Board Members

Three new school board members and one re-elected member were sworn in at the December 5 meeting at Lincoln Center.

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Eighth Grade Students Tour High School CTE Programs

Many eighth grade students have never stepped foot in our CHCCS high schools, but for the first year, nearly 1,000 of them were able to ride buses to the schools they will attend next year, to explore the Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs available in our high schools.

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