A Unique Learning Environment

Even from the outside, NTHS looks different. It's cleaner. It's more colorful. It's sleek and elegant. Enter its doors, and you'll see bright classrooms with windows on all sides. Roomy computer work stations line the largest rooms, while the other has tables and chairs facing a screen, CD projector and computer. Besides classrooms, there's a sunken computer lab area, a presentation room with well-worn foosball tables, and clean bathrooms. Mention the beauty of the school, and every student will immediately remark on the clean bathrooms. A single instance of graffiti is enough to unite the students in anger against the unknown perpetrator, inspiring them to write articles in the school newspaper and make impassioned speeches at student/staff meetings. It's impossible to imagine such outrage at any other public high school.

But the physical differences are only the beginning. Unique teaching methods and an independent learning environment enhance the technology. This is no cold, hard school of uniformly competent robots. Individualism and communication are encouraged, primarily through the revolutionary teaching technique known as Project-Based Learning.