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FESTIVE FUSION & CREATIVE MARKET
Congratulations to the Broughton Arts Department, including Jazz Band, Vocal Music, Dance, and Visual Arts for ringing in the season with the Festive Fusion & Creative Market. Shown below is the Broughton Dance Company, accompanied by the Jazz Band as well as the Creative Arts Market, featuring Broughton and community visual artists. The event was a benefit for Toys for Tots.
BROUGHTON ORCHESTRA AT GoGlobal
Thank you to GoGlobal and NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall for hosting the Broughton Orchestra at the NC Global Advantage Forum, which included NC government, business, and education leaders as they learned about global trends and determined ways to better connecting NC with the world.
CAPITAL COMMUNITY CHORUS
Congratulations and thank you to the students, families, and teachers at Broughton, Oberlin, Martin, Combs, Lacy, and Wiley for joining together in beautiful song at the second annual Capital Community Chorus Festival, which took place at Broughton. We were inspired by your love of music as you made the world more joyful!
WCPSS MAGNET FAIR
We were so grateful to connect with hundreds of families at the WCPSS magnet fair! We were excited by your interest and energy, and we invite you to visit us for our open house or a tour! The Open House will take place at 6:00 PM on Thursday, November 13. We hope to see you soon!
BROUGHTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL & ARTS EXPO
Congratulations to our wonderful students and arts and world languages teachers for creating a fantastic International Festival and Arts Expo for our community! We were amazed by the performances, presentations, delicious food, and amazing energy!
CAPS MODEL UN
Congratulations to the Broughton CAPS Model UN for hosting their first Model UN Conference, which included approximately 200 students from as far away as Chicago as they wrote position papers, debated resolutions, and envisioned ways of creating a more just and peaceful world! Thanks to the Broughton Model UN and advisor Benjamin Barkley for making this amazing experience possible!
JOIN US for a TOUR or OPEN HOUSE
We have had a wonderful start to our school recruitment events at the St. Timothy's high school fair and our first tour. We love to meet with prospective students and families, and we hope that you'll join us soon our open house or tour. For more information about these events, or to register for a tour, please follow this link.
We hope to see you soon!
TRAILBLAZERS-TO-CAPS
We are very excited to have kicked off our inaugural Broughton-Oberlin student mentoring program, called Trailblazers-to-CAPS! Throughout the year, Broughton students will share ways that current Trailblazers (future Broughton CAPS) can get engaged with their studies, get involved when they arrive at Broughton, take classes that best meet their interests, etc. The overall goal of the program is to ease the transition to high school, and we're very excited for these Oberlin students to be CAPS next year!
OPEN HOUSE
Please join us for our Open House on Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 6:00-7:30. You'll be able to engage with our students and staff, explore a wide range of program opportunities, and get excited about the school. There is no preregistration for the Open House. Please feel free to share the opportunity with your friends and neighbors!
BROUGHTON IS NAMED 2025 NATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE!
Broughton Magnet High School prides itself on its integration of global studies in all of our learning through focusing on our UN Sustainable Development Goals and growing students who share their talents to improve the world. We are proud of the integration of studying global issues while also demonstrating our service to the world in which we live through our community service graduation requirement. We are proud of the recognition that Broughton Magnet High School received for the staff, students, and families’ hard work and dedication to teaching and learning.
MANDARIN IMMERSION VIRTUAL EXCHANGE
Congratulations to our 9th grade Mandarin immersion students, who have completed a yearlong virtual exchange with peers in China, sharing interests, cultures, and language. Thanks to teacher Ms. Tzeng and the NCSU College of Education for providing this great opportunity!
BROUGHTON SERVICE CLUB
Congratulations to the 2024-25 inductees to the Broughton Service Club! The Service Club is one of the highest honors in the Broughton community and is open to students, faculty, and staff who have made significant contributions to the school and community. We are proud of the accomplishments of our Service Club inductees and grateful for the many ways they have shared their talents to improve the school and the world around us!
IB DIPLOMA INFORMATION SESSIONS
Our 11th and 12th grade IB Diploma Programme students are enjoying working with 9th and 10th graders to teach them about the program and answer questions about their learning and courses. For more information about the Broughton IB Programme, please follow this link.
BROUGHTON GRAD'S WORK IN RWANDA
Congratulations to Broughton IB graduate Jenni Mangala, a Park Scholar at NC State University, for her amazing work to install solar power at primary schools in Rwanda. For more information about the fantastic project, please follow this link.
Rise Against Hunger Food Packaging
BROUGHTON SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAM
Congratulations to the Broughton Class of 2025 for their service in our community during their time at Broughton! Broughton is the only public school in North Carolina that has a graduation requirement of 25 hours of service learning each year. The Broughton service learning program teaches skills of citizenship, collaboration, creative problem-solving, time management, and communication--all while students live the Broughton Vision of "sharing their talents to improve the world." Please visit this site for more information.
WAKE COUNTY IB DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Thank you to the Wake County Public Schools Magnet and Equity Affairs Offices for supporting the first IB student conference, which joined students from the 5 WPCSS IB Diploma Programmes to make recommendations for encouraging underrepresented students to enrol in advanced academic program opportunities. Thanks also to the NC Museum of Art for hosting us!
U.N. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
A central component of the Broughton magnet theme is for students to study, analyze, connect with, and take action in relation to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals for global progress. In the photo here, you will find student political cartoons from World History courses that each connected the UN SDGs to an aspect of the World History curriculum topics.
BHS-EMBASSY OF SPAIN CONNECTIONS
Thank you to Secretary of Education Ferrar and Assistant Secretary Del Mar from the Spanish Embassy in Washington for being guest speakers in our Immersion, IB, and Heritage Spanish classes! Our students learned a great deal about Spain, and they thoroughly enjoyed sharing cultures. Thanks also for working with our school staff in developing new opportunities for our students to learn about and experience Spanish language and culture.
WORLD CUP
To coordinate with the global world cup, all Broughton World Languages classes studied about global sports, and they created their own World Cup tournament, with each class representing a country they study through their language courses. In addition to playing soccer, the students created songs and cheers (in the target language of study) for their team.
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
We are excited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with an ongoing focus on the diverse Hispanic and Latinx cultures represented in our school and community! Our celebrations built toward the Broughton International Festival, which included music, games, a fashion show, and cultural displays to represent Broughton's international community.
BROUGHTON MOCK TRAIL TEAM--CHAMPIONS!
Congratulations to the Broughton Mock Trial team for being the NC state champions! Then, at the national championship, they placed 11th in the country!
IB EXAMS
Shown here are some of our great IB seniors during their last regular school day before starting IB exams. We are so proud of these students and the great work that they have demonstrated over the past two years! We're excited about the many ways they will continue to make the world a better place after the graduate from Broughton!
BROUGHTON PRESENTS CHICAGO!
Congratulations to our Arts Department for presenting the fabulous musical Chicago! We are so fortunate to have so many talented singers, dancers, actors, set-designers, instrumentalists! Congratulations also to our fantastic teachers who made the production possible!
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE
Thanks to Jennifer Cates, a recent faculty retiree from the Broughton World Languages Department, for sharing her time and expertise in creating this lovely, informational display in honor of Native American Heritage Month! This exceptional display includes resources related to Native American history, culture, food, folklore, biographies, art, and many more topics.
JAZZ-DANCE FUSION CONCERT
Congratulations to the Broughton Dance and Jazz Band performers for their fabulous production of Duke Ellington's Nutcracker!