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Community Service

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

~Albert Schweitzer

Students earn a minimum of 50 hours of community service as part of the Woods graduation requirements. Community service is:

  • an action by the student that benefits the community,
  • outside of school hours,
  • supervised by an adult,
  • voluntary (i.e., unpaid, not court-mandated),
  • in support of a nonprofit, 501 C 3 organization.


Complete the Community Service Form for volunteer activities and turn it in to the high school director.

Students who enter Woods after freshman year must earn an average of 12.5 hours per year of attendance.

Organizations that Woods students have volunteered with include Woods events and athletics, churches and synagogues, community agencies, and local programs like these:

  • Animal Services of Orange County
  • ASP
  • CARE
  • Charles House Association
  • Chatham Soccer League
  • Clapping Hands Farm
  • CORA
  • Festival for the Eno
  • Friends of Chatham County Library
  • From Houses to Homes
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Haw River Foundation
  • Make-a-Wish Foundation
  • Paws4Ever
  • PORCH
  • Red Cross
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • Shakori Hills
  • Teen Court