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Department Highlights

• The primary mission of the department is to create lifelong readers and writers as they recognize the power of literacy in their lives.

• CJ students consistently place in local, state and individual writing competitions:

  • Montgomery County Poetry Contest

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest

  • Holocaust Writing Contest

  • Scholastic Writing Awards

• 97% of CJ’s AP English students have qualified for college credit.  The average AP score last year was 4.05.

• National and State recognition for Poetry Out Loud competition:

  • National: Rachel Chandler – Class of 2008

  • State: Lynsay Strahorn – Class of 2011

• We offer World Literature as an online and traditional classroom course.

• In the last eight years, CJ students have received the distinct honor of a “Superior” rating from the National Council of Teachers of English.

• CJ students write, edit, and publish a creative writing anthology, In Our Minds every year for the Dayton community.

• OGT scores include a 97% passage rate in reading and a 98% in writing.

• Established the CJ Community Writing Center in 2011 for students, faculty and staff.