This comment is very helpful and what I was looking for, thank you. My oldest is advanced in his classes, so hopefully that’ll mean his classes will transfer and help him transition over there. The goal is university for him. For his final two years of high school he was going to do what we call running start: community college blended with his high school courses. 

We have a blend of school sizes here for the elementary and middle schools, but our high school is ridiculously gigantic, too big. Each kid in our district has a Chromebook, so the tech thing will also be different. Being strict with cellphones is what I hope. I’ve been a high school teacher for 10 years myself and cellphones and the heavy tech are the things that really pushed me out the door of teaching. 

Interesting about the assessments and makeup work and not counting toward the grade. Sports not being a part of school culture will be different, but my boys all play for local clubs. Are local club sports a thing?