About WBHS
Western Branch High School is a comprehensive high school of over 2200 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is located in Chesapeake, Virginia, a rapidly growing suburban community in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. Over 91% of the graduating classes in the preceding four years have continued their educations after high school. The faculty is both highly educated and well-experienced with 68% having a masters degree or higher and 72% having more than ten years of teaching experience.
Advanced placement courses and examinations are offered in seventeen content areas. Work study programs are also available to students in marketing, industrial trades, and business. Chesapeake's Center for Science and Technology is also an option for students during part of the school day to study in any of twenty-two specialities such as cosmetology, biotechnology, radio and television, and welding.
Since fall of 1995, 4 X 4 classes at WBHS have been conducted on a term or semester basis, with each term lasting eighteen weeks or approximately ninety instructional days for one unit of credit.
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