Sponsor: Tiffany Laxson
About this Club: By empowering, championing, and recognizing well-rounded students, NHS provides schools with a values-based framework to elevate a culture of scholarship, service, leadership, and character.
Club Activities: Various school and community service projects.
Criteria for Membership:
Scholarship – Candidates must have completed their first semester of their junior year with the cumulative unweighted grade point average of 3.75 or above as identified by the Warren County High School Guidance Department.
Character – Candidates must demonstrate elements of good character. A person of good character demonstrates the following six qualities: respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Leadership – Candidates must demonstrate leadership in school and community organizations. This leadership may be either elected positions or effective participation in extracurricular sports and activities.
Service – Candidates must demonstrate service to the school and community. Such service is generally considered to be those actions undertaken by the student which are done with, or on the behalf of, others without direct financial or material compensation to the individual performing the service.
Application Process
Each spring new members are inducted into the Warren County High School Chapter of the National Honor
Society. They are chosen through the process outlined below and honored at an Induction Ceremony which
celebrates their achievements.
1) The National Honor Society Advisor receives a list of all juniors with an overall unweighted GPA of
3.75 or better after the second quarter (in January). Attendance and discipline are checked in
Skyward.
2) The advisor then distributes invitations for an informational meeting to each of those students who
qualify.
3) The meeting will explain the application process. Only students who request an application via
interest card at the meeting will be given an application (in February).
4) The advisor prints the number of applications needed and distributes applications to those students
who submitted an interest card. To be selected, students must show a significant commitment to
service, leadership, and character. If a student does not list service or leadership activities, as well
as exhibit good character, they will not be admitted to the National Honor Society. Scholarship is
determined solely by the student’s GPA and is not further reviewed by the Selection Committee.
5) Students submit completed applications to the advisor by the deadline (in March).
6) The 5 -person Selection Committee (chosen by the principal) reviews and scores the applications.
The scores are averaged. Any student meeting the average score or above is invited to join NHS.
7) Decisions (acceptance or rejection) are given to the students in the form of a letter from the
National Honor Society Advisor (in March).
8) The annual National Honor Society Induction Ceremony takes place in early April.
Website:
https://www.nationalhonorsociety.org/
