Little Rock Central High School continues its excellence in education programs for all its 2,000 students. It has always been among the leading high schools in this part of the country. Here are some of the honors the school, its teachers and its students have received:

• Admissions officers of the nation's most selective colleges and universities selected Central as one of the nation's best high schools in preparing students for college. Only 19 open-admission schools were selected.
• The school is one of two in Arkansas listed as a National Governors' Association Model School.
• There are 125 courses taught at Central. This includes 13 advanced placement courses. Four foreign languages--Latin, German, French and Spanish--are taught.
• In the 1996-97 school year, Central had 23 National Merit Semifinalists--more than any other school in Arkansas. Over the past 10 years, 10% of the state's National Merit Semifinalists have come from one high school: Central. Almost 50% of all black semifinalists from Arkansas have been Central High students.
• The only Arkansas semifinalist for the 1997 Westinghouse Foundation Science Talent competition was from Central.
• Four National Achievement Semifinalists in 1996-97 were from Central.
• Twenty-five students inducted into Cum Laude Society in 1996. This is the oldest Cum Laude Society chapter west of the Mississippi River.
• Thirty-nine students selected for the Arkansas Governor's School, more than any other high school.
• Of 19 Arkansans in the 1998 National Achievement Scholarship Program announced October 4, 1997, four are from Central: Brian A. Abson, Freeman L. Garner, Britt C. Johnson and Fatima J. McKindra. No other school had more than two.

        Teaching? Take a look at the credentials of Central High's faculty:

• National Marketing Education Teacher of the Year
• Arkansas Distributive Education Teacher of the Year
• Outstanding Arkansas Chemistry Teacher (American Chemical Society)
• Two teachers on the faculty of Arkansas Governor's School
• Teacher consultants for College Board's Southwest region in both English Literature and Statistics
• One of Entergy's Outstanding Teachers of the Year
• U.S. Army Excellence in Science instruction (biology)
• Readers for the College Board's subject area test in writing and the Spanish language AP exam
• Reader for the National Council of Teachers of English literary magazine awards and writing awards
• Reader for the 1992, 1993 and 1994 National Merit Scholarship program

        Recent graduates were accepted by over 100 selective colleges and universities throughout the country. Last year, 120 scholarships were accepted by 89 members of the graduating class. The estimated total value of these scholarships was over $1.3 million.

Here is a partial list of institutions that have accepted Central graduates in the past three years:

· All 4 year colleges in Arkansas · Amherst · Boston College · Brandeis · Brown · California-Berkeley · Carnegie-Mellon · Cornell · Dartmouth · Davidson · Duke · Emerson · Harvard

· Hendrix · Howard · MIT · Morehouse · Notre Dame · Princeton · Sewanee · Stanford · Vanderbilt · Washington & Lee · Wellesley · Yale

        Little Rock Central High's President of the Student Body.
We are proud of the president of the study body for the 1997-98 school year: Fatima McKindra, the first black woman to be elected to the office. Fatima spent this summer taking courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was named the outstanding student in the MIT college entrance program. While there have been other outstanding black male students elected student body president, Fatima is the first black woman to be so honored. Congratulations Fatima. (Photo courtesy Spencer Tirey)