Hillside High School's
International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme
(IB MYP - Grades 9 through 10)
WELCOME TO THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR!
The Hillside High School International Baccalaureate Programme is an
IBO authorized World School, a member of the
IB Schools of North Carolina (IBSNC), a Durham Public Schools (DPS) Magnet Lottery comprehensive/traditional high school, and the 2020 & 2023 Magnet Schools of America National Award of Merit
School of Distinction recipient.
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Hillside's Mission (rev. May 2018)
"Hillside High School commits to inspire students to become globally aware citizens, lifelong learners, and responsible leaders in their communities. This will be accomplished by creating challenging learning experiences that emphasize collaboration, critical thinking, and respect for all people."
Hillside's Vision
"A professional learning community that cultivates confidence and high achievement in all of its learners."
"Hillside High School commits to inspire students to become globally aware citizens, lifelong learners, and responsible leaders in their communities. This will be accomplished by creating challenging learning experiences that emphasize collaboration, critical thinking, and respect for all people."
Hillside's Vision
"A professional learning community that cultivates confidence and high achievement in all of its learners."
MYP-in-a-Nutshell
- Serves as post-secondary prep (i.e. college, career/workforce, military) designed for students in grades 9 (Year 4) and 10 (Year 5)
- Integrates global awareness and perspective as a connection to students’ everyday knowledge/experience
- Assesses mastery of content through criterion-level grading that reflects students’ self-paced progression of learning over the course of two years
- Uses student-centered, collaborative, and innovative teaching & learning methods within their 8 subject groups
- Affords challenging academic and extra-curricular opportunities to enhance holistic skills (i.e. communication, self-management, social, research, thinking)
- Engages students in classroom enrichment and extension via these core IB MYP requirements:
2) Service-as-Action (community service/service learning) (grade 9-Year 4 and grade 10-Year 5)
3) Personal Project (10th Grade Only independent research project)
WHAT WE DO & HOW WE DO IT
Here you will find information about the programme overview, general rules and regulations, and access our Hillside IB MYP Brochure, 4 Year Plan, and Student Handbook. THE PROGRAMME |
Here you will find information about the following: 8 Subject Groups and the Framework (Approaches to Learning, Concepts, Global Contexts, and the IB Learner Profile)
THE CURRICULUM |
Here you will find information about the following: the required "Service as Action" hours for Year 4 (9th Grade) and Year 5 (10th Grade) and the required Year 5 Personal Project.
THE SERVICE |
IB MISSION STATEMENT
The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
IB DIVERSITY, EQUITY, and INCLUSION STATEMENT
At the IB we want to understand and celebrate differences within our community, while recognizing and valuing the things we have in common. As we all strive to achieve our mission of creating a better world through education, we cannot underestimate the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
At the IB we want to understand and celebrate differences within our community, while recognizing and valuing the things we have in common. As we all strive to achieve our mission of creating a better world through education, we cannot underestimate the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
WHO WE ARE
DPS MAGNET INFORMATION
For more information about DPS Magnet Schools, please visit dpsnc.net/magnet
Information for the DPS Magnet Lottery process for next school year 2026-2027 is tentatively scheduled for a November 2025 release.
Hillside IB MYP & Diploma Program (9-12)
3727 Fayetteville Street, Durham NC 27707
(919) 560-3925
www.hillside.dpsnc.net
Bell Schedule: 9:15 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.
Program Magnet: International Baccalaureate
The IB-MYP/DP is a high quality program of international course-work developed and authorized by world renowned International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). The IB Programme is designed to help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.
Features of the magnet school include:
Lottery Assignment Priorities
Program Link for 8th grade applicants applying from Shepard to Hillside IB, General Applicant Pool
All students including base school students must apply; the seat is not automatic
Transportation Services
District-wide (subject to change at DPS discretion)
3727 Fayetteville Street, Durham NC 27707
(919) 560-3925
www.hillside.dpsnc.net
Bell Schedule: 9:15 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.
Program Magnet: International Baccalaureate
The IB-MYP/DP is a high quality program of international course-work developed and authorized by world renowned International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). The IB Programme is designed to help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.
Features of the magnet school include:
- Grades 9-10 of the Middle Years Programme (MYP) – Rigorous program of academic challenge and critical thinking that draws connections among subject areas and to the real world
- Diploma Programme (DP) – grades 11-12 – Rigorous yet balanced college preparatory coursework culminating in a series of examinations which may earn students college credits
- Teachers receive certified IB training
- Students become proficient in a second language through the IB course of study
Lottery Assignment Priorities
Program Link for 8th grade applicants applying from Shepard to Hillside IB, General Applicant Pool
All students including base school students must apply; the seat is not automatic
Transportation Services
District-wide (subject to change at DPS discretion)
