Welcome!
Welcome to Christiana's Web Site.  Christiana High School is located in Newark, Delaware, just off of I-95.  At Christiana, students find a variety of academic and extra-curricular opportunities.  Since 1963, our reputation has been built on providing an excellent education by a dedicated faculty.  This, combined with state-of-the-art technology and an emphasis on active student involvement, is visible throughout our web site.  We welcome you to our home on the web and invite you to experience the dynamics of the CHS experience!

Mission Statement - Written by CHS Staff, Parents & Students
Christiana High School graduates will demonstrate excellence in essential skills and critical thinking to become lifelong learners and contributing citizens in a multicultural society.

Educational Philosophy
Knowledge provides the ultimate means of preserving the quality of life and assuring a literate, responsible, democratic society.  As educators, we are committed to the processes of learning by which our students may achieve the wisdom necessary to face the challenges of the Twenty-first Century. 

In a rapidly changing social structure, Christiana High School’s educational curriculum is designed to meet a far greater range of student needs than ever before.  To meet these demands, our curricular and co-curricular offerings stimulate academic and intellectual growth and include vocational and avocational training, physical fitness and career education in cooperation with the community in addition, curriculum content requires constant revision and interdisciplinary application to ensure the maximum educational experience.  Alternative programs and ancillary services supplement academic study; specialized competencies accompany the teaching of basic literacy; expressive opportunities enrich the entire program.  To assure a substantive and meaningful education, we seek to establish realistic goals, to measure progress and to maintain challenging standards for all abilities.

Because teachers are both general educators and specialists, we guide the development of the complete individual: intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically.  The Christiana faculty offers support and structure as role models for students, sharing their respect and trust.  As caring and concerned teachers, we maintain an optimistic climate in which instruction can be given equitably to students.

By discovering their individual needs, abilities and potential, students become participants in creating a balanced learning environment.  In such an atmosphere, critical aspects of student development will occur: self-examination, self-discipline, a sense of self-worth and a sense of responsibility to the learning process.  The basic skills of thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing and computation are refined so that reasoning, literate individuals can become responsible citizens, aware of their rights and accountable for their actions.

The community whose children we teach bears responsibility for public education.  Therefore, mutual trust and communication is encouraged between the school and the community.  An appreciation of cultural, ethnic and individual differences strengthens that bond.  Christiana High School, students, the parents, and the community share an obligation to assure a positive and educationally rewarding high school experience.

CHS... Read It... Think It... Write It...

Rubric for Text-Based Response
To earn a score of 5, the student will:	To earn a score of a 4, the student will:	To earn a score of a 3, the student will:	To earn a score of a 2, the student will:	To earn a score of a 1, the student will:
Introduce the main idea through a well-developed thesis or topic sentence.  Use vocabulary that is on-topic, appropriate, and demonstrates a clear and consistent understanding of the text. Demonstrate complex sentence structure and show few to no mechanical errors. Compose a response that is focused with sufficient and relevant support from the text while demonstrating a smooth progression of ideas, and avoids summary.	Introduce the main idea through a thesis or topic sentence. Use vocabulary that is appropriate and demonstrates the writer’s understanding of the text. Have minimal mechanical and spelling errors. Compose a response that is focused with sufficient and relevant support from the text, and avoids summary.	Introduce the main idea by restating the question. Use vocabulary that is on-topic and its general use demonstrates the writer’s understanding of the text. Have some mechanical and spelling errors, but the errors do not detract from the overall understanding of the response. Compose a response that is focused with sufficient support from the text, and attempts to avoid summary.	Attempt to re-state the main idea/question. Have limited vocabulary use and demonstrate incorrect word choice. Have mechanical and spelling errors that detract from the overall understanding of the response. Compose a response that offers little support from the text and/or summarize the text.	Demonstrate little to no understanding of the main idea/question. Demonstrate fundamental errors in vocabulary and uses words that are consistently inappropriate. Have mechanical and spelling errors that detract from the overall understanding of the piece. Compose a response that offers no support from the text and/or summarizes the text.
Exemplary		Proficient	Emerging

** A zero will be given to any response that is insufficient to warrant to a score.

Our Campus
Christiana is divided into two different buildings, the General building and the Humanities building.  These two buildings are linked by two enclosed walkways or "breeze-ways" for easy access into each.  Housed mainly in the General building are the mathematics, science, foreign language, and art department.  Living up to its name, our Humanities building contains our social science, technical, agricultural, and earth sciences departments.