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High School Resume Examples

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A strong high school resume should show reliability, responsibility, and results from wherever you have earned them, whether that is a part-time job, a volunteer role, a club, or a class project. Highlight hours worked or volunteered, customers or people served, money raised or handled, deadlines met, grades and coursework, and any certification such as a food handler card, CPR, or a work readiness programme. Give numbers even for small things, because a specific record of showing up is what an employer is checking. State your situation plainly, since a student with a part-time job, a recent graduate seeking full-time work, a student seeking a first job, a student with no work experience yet, and a senior heading to college are hired on different evidence. Use the examples below to see how to turn school, volunteer, and early work into clear, results-focused resume achievements.

High School Resume Example

Meet Jasper Fielding, a fictional high school junior with 2 years of part-time hardware store work and a referee role. This example shows how a student with some work history presents it, on customers served, register accuracy, and money raised for a club.

Jasper Fielding

(208) 555-0102 ◇ Boise, ID

jasper.fielding@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/jasper-fielding ◇ jasperfielding.com

Objective

High school junior with a 3.8 GPA seeking a part-time or summer position in retail or customer service, with 2 years of part-time work at a family-run hardware store, 3 years as a youth soccer referee, and a school robotics club role. Handles about 40 customers a shift at the store, has officiated about 150 youth matches with 0 formal complaints, and led the robotics club fundraising that raised $3,200. Shows up on time, learns the job quickly, and is trusted with the register.

Education
High School Diploma (in progress, expected 2028), Treasure Valley Crown High School 2024 – 2028

GPA 3.8; honours coursework in Mathematics, Physics, and English; member of the National Honor Society.

Food Handler Card and CPR Certification, State Health District and American Red Cross 2026

Also completed a 20-hour youth referee certification course through a state soccer association in 2023.

Skills
Customer Service
Greeting and helping customers, answering product questions, cash and card handling, returns and exchanges, calm handling of complaints, phone answering
Work Habits
Punctuality and reliability, following procedures, working without supervision, safety awareness, physical stamina for stocking and lifting, teamwork
Organisation and Communication
Stock counting and shelf organisation, clear speaking under pressure, conflict de-escalation from officiating, event planning, basic record keeping
Tools & Platforms
Point-of-sale register, Google Workspace, Microsoft Word and Excel, Canva, group messaging apps, basic spreadsheet tracking
Experience
Sales Associate (Part Time) 06/2024 – Present
Treasure Valley Line Hardware Boise, ID
  • Help about 40 customers a shift find products and answer questions across 12 aisles, working 12 hours a week during school and 30 in summer.
  • Run the register for about 100 transactions a shift with 0 cash drawer discrepancies in 2 years.
  • Restock and face about 200 shelf sections a week and count inventory for 3 departments each month.
Youth Soccer Referee (Part Time) 09/2023 – Present
Boise River Line Youth Soccer Association Boise, ID
  • Officiate about 50 matches a season for players aged 8 to 14, about 150 matches across 3 seasons.
  • Hold a 0 formal complaint record and was rated in the top 10 of 60 referees by the assignor in 2025.
  • Manage match paperwork and reporting for every game within 24 hours.
Fundraising Lead, Robotics Club 09/2025 – Present
Treasure Valley Crown High School Boise, ID
  • Lead fundraising for a robotics club of 22 members, raising $3,200 in 1 season through 4 events and 6 local sponsors.
  • Wrote and sent 20 sponsor letters and followed up in person with 12 businesses, securing 6 sponsors.
  • Track the club budget of $5,000 in a spreadsheet reviewed monthly with the faculty advisor.
Projects

Robotics Club Fundraising Season. Planned 4 fundraising events including a car wash and a community demonstration night, recruited 6 local business sponsors with a 1-page sponsor sheet, and tracked every dollar in a shared spreadsheet, which raised $3,200 and covered the full competition travel cost for 22 members.

Hardware Store Seasonal Display. Proposed and built a spring garden display at the store entrance with 30 products and a printed planting guide, which the owner credited with a 25% rise in garden department sales over 6 weeks and repeated the following year.

Science Fair Project. Designed and ran an experiment on soil moisture sensors for home gardens across 8 weeks and 4 soil types, wrote a 12-page report, and placed 2nd of 40 projects at the school science fair.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of the school robotics club, competing in 2 regional competitions a year.
  • Play on the school junior varsity soccer team, with about 16 matches a season.
  • Volunteer at a community food bank, about 4 hours a month packing boxes.
Leadership
  • Lead the fundraising committee of 5 for a robotics club of 22.
  • Trained 3 new referees on match management during their first season.
  • Serve as a peer tutor in mathematics for 4 students a week through the school tutoring centre.
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High School Graduate Resume Example

Meet Amaya Ruiz, a recent graduate seeking full-time office or customer service work after 2 years of restaurant shifts and a year as a school office aide. This example shows how to write a graduate resume on service ratings, front office volume, and a certification.

Amaya Ruiz

(915) 555-0114 ◇ El Paso, TX

amaya.ruiz@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/amaya-ruiz ◇ amayaruiz.com

Objective

Recent high school graduate seeking a full-time position in office administration or customer service, with 2 years of part-time restaurant work, a year as a school office aide, and a certificate in office applications. Served about 60 tables a shift with a 4.9 of 5 customer rating on the restaurant app, handled about 30 front office calls a day as an office aide, and graduated with a 3.6 GPA while working 20 hours a week. Ready to work full time, learns systems fast, and has 2 years of showing up for every shift.

Education
High School Diploma, Franklin Mountains Line High School 2022 – 2026

GPA 3.6; coursework in Business Information Management, Accounting, and Spanish; graduated with a business pathway endorsement.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification, Word and Excel, Microsoft 2025

Also holds a food handler card and a customer service fundamentals certificate from a community college programme; fluent in English and Spanish.

Skills
Customer Service
Greeting and serving customers, order accuracy, phone handling, complaint resolution, bilingual service in English and Spanish, working at pace during rush periods
Office Administration
Front desk reception, visitor sign-in, filing and records, data entry, scheduling support, mail and supplies, basic bookkeeping
Work Habits
Reliability across 2 years of shifts, time management alongside school, following procedures, teamwork in a busy kitchen and dining room, confidentiality
Tools & Platforms
Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Workspace, Toast point-of-sale, school information system, Canva, multi-line phone system
Experience
Server (Part Time) 05/2024 – Present
Rio Bravo Crown Family Restaurant El Paso, TX
  • Serve about 60 tables a shift at a 120-seat family restaurant, working 20 hours a week during school and 35 in summer.
  • Hold a 4.9 of 5 customer rating across about 400 reviews on the restaurant ordering app, the highest of 12 servers.
  • Handle about $1,500 in cash and card payments a shift with 0 discrepancies in 2 years.
Student Office Aide 08/2025 – 05/2026
Franklin Mountains Line High School, Front Office El Paso, TX
  • Handled about 30 front office calls and 40 visitor sign-ins a day for a school of 1,800 students during a daily 1-hour period.
  • Entered about 200 attendance and records updates a week into the school system with 0 errors found at audit.
  • Translated for about 15 Spanish-speaking families a month at the front desk.
Volunteer Event Assistant 06/2023 – 08/2025
Sun City Line Community Center El Paso, TX
  • Helped run about 12 community events a year with attendance of 100 to 500 people across 3 summers.
  • Managed registration tables handling about 200 sign-ins per event with a printed and digital list.
  • Recruited and scheduled 8 student volunteers for the annual summer festival.
Projects

Front Office Visitor Log Redesign. Replaced a paper visitor log with a spreadsheet sign-in on a front desk tablet, with a printable daily report for the office manager, which cut sign-in time from about 2 minutes to 30 seconds and gave the office a searchable record of about 6,000 visitors across the year.

Restaurant Takeout Order Accuracy. Proposed a checklist card for takeout orders after noticing about 5 wrong orders a week, tested it on the weekend shifts for a month, and presented the result to the manager, which cut wrong takeout orders to about 1 a week and was adopted for all shifts.

Business Class Capstone. Led a 4-person team creating a business plan for a mobile coffee cart with a budget, a 12-month cash flow projection, and a marketing plan, presented to a panel of 3 local business owners and placed 1st of 10 teams.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of the school business and leadership club for 3 years, competing in 2 state events.
  • Volunteer at a community center, about 6 hours a month across 3 years.
  • Member of the school mariachi ensemble, performing at about 10 events a year.
Leadership
  • Led a 4-person business class team to 1st place of 10 in a capstone presentation.
  • Trained 4 new servers on the point-of-sale system and the takeout checklist.
  • Recruited and scheduled 8 student volunteers for a community festival of about 500 attendees.
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High School Student First Job Resume Example

Meet Leo Novak, a sophomore seeking a first paid job with lawn care customers, shelter volunteering, and a team manager role behind them. This example shows how to build a resume from self-employed and volunteer work with real numbers.

Leo Novak

(402) 555-0109 ◇ Omaha, NE

leo.novak@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/leo-novak ◇ leonovak.com

Objective

High school sophomore seeking a first paid job in a grocery store, restaurant, or retail setting, available about 15 hours a week after school and weekends. Has no paid employment yet, but has mowed lawns for 6 neighbourhood customers for 2 summers, volunteered about 120 hours at an animal shelter, and managed equipment for a school basketball team of 14. Reliable, fine with early mornings, and used to finishing a job before leaving.

Education
High School Diploma (in progress, expected 2029), Missouri River Crown High School 2025 – 2029

GPA 3.4; coursework in Algebra, Biology, English, and Introduction to Business; perfect attendance in the first year.

Food Handler Card, County Health Department 2026

Also completed a 4-hour youth work readiness workshop through a community job centre in 2026.

Skills
Work Readiness
Showing up on time, following instructions, finishing tasks without reminders, safe use of tools and equipment, lifting and carrying, working outdoors in all weather
Customer and Team
Polite communication with adults, taking payment and giving change, helping teammates, asking questions when unsure, handling animals and nervous visitors calmly
Organisation
Keeping a schedule of customers, tracking earnings and expenses, inventory of equipment, cleaning and setup routines, basic record keeping
Tools & Platforms
Google Docs and Sheets, group messaging apps, payment apps for lawn customers, lawn and garden equipment, basic phone and email etiquette
Experience
Lawn Care (Self-Employed, Seasonal) 05/2024 – Present
Neighbourhood Customers Omaha, NE
  • Mow, edge, and trim for 6 regular customers a week across 2 summers, about 25 lawns a month.
  • Earned about $2,400 a summer and kept a record of every job and payment in a spreadsheet.
  • Kept all 6 customers from the first summer to the second and added 2 through referrals.
Volunteer Animal Care Assistant 09/2024 – Present
Platte Line Animal Shelter Omaha, NE
  • Volunteer about 4 hours a week cleaning kennels, walking dogs, and preparing food for about 60 animals, about 120 hours in total.
  • Walk about 10 dogs a shift on a schedule and record each walk and any concern on the kennel sheet.
  • Help visitors meet about 5 animals a shift at weekend adoption events.
Team Manager, Freshman Basketball 11/2025 – 03/2026
Missouri River Crown High School Omaha, NE
  • Managed equipment, water, and setup for a team of 14 across 20 games and about 60 practices in a season.
  • Kept the scorebook for all 20 games with 0 scoring disputes.
  • Tracked 14 uniforms and about 40 pieces of equipment with a checklist and returned every item at the end of the season.
Projects

Lawn Care Customer Schedule. Built a weekly schedule and payment tracker in a spreadsheet for 8 lawn customers, with a reminder message the day before each job, which meant 0 missed jobs across 2 summers and let customers pay by app instead of cash.

Shelter Adoption Event Support. Helped run 6 weekend adoption events, setting up 20 kennels and greeting visitors, and wrote short profile cards for 30 animals, with 18 of those animals adopted during the events.

Introduction to Business Project. Wrote a 6-page business plan for a lawn care service using real customer and cost numbers from 2 summers, with a pricing comparison across 3 local competitors, and earned the top grade in a class of 28.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of the school outdoors club, going on about 6 hikes and trips a year.
  • Play in a recreational baseball league in summer, about 14 games a season.
  • Volunteer at a neighbourhood park cleanup 4 times a year, about 3 hours each time.
Leadership
  • Run a small lawn care service independently, managing 8 customers, scheduling, and payments.
  • Showed 3 new shelter volunteers the kennel cleaning routine during their first shifts.
  • Organised a 2-person park cleanup crew from the outdoors club for 4 events.
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High School Student with No Experience Resume Example

Meet Zoe Bannister, a junior with no work experience yet but 3 years of library volunteering, yearbook deadlines, and peer tutoring. This example shows how school and volunteer activities can carry a resume when they are written with hours, counts, and outcomes.

Zoe Bannister

(515) 555-0120 ◇ Des Moines, IA

zoe.bannister@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/zoe-bannister ◇ zoebannister.com

Objective

High school junior with a 3.9 GPA seeking a first job in a library, bookstore, or front desk role, available about 12 hours a week after school and on Saturdays. Has no work experience yet, but has 3 years of school activities that show the same habits an employer wants: 2 years as yearbook staff meeting every deadline, 90 hours of library volunteering, and a peer tutoring role with 5 regular students. Organised, careful with details, and comfortable talking to people of any age.

Education
High School Diploma (in progress, expected 2028), Raccoon River Line High School 2024 – 2028

GPA 3.9; honours coursework in English, History, and Chemistry; member of the National Honor Society.

Youth Work Readiness Certificate, County Workforce Development Center 2026

Completed a 12-hour programme covering workplace communication, customer service basics, and time management; also holds CPR certification.

Skills
Organisation and Accuracy
Meeting deadlines, proofreading and attention to detail, shelving and cataloguing, keeping records, managing a schedule, following multi-step instructions
Communication
Explaining things clearly to younger students and adults, polite phone and in-person manner, writing short clear messages, listening and asking questions
Work Habits
Reliability across 3 years of volunteer shifts, working independently, patience, helping without being asked, handling quiet and busy periods
Tools & Platforms
Google Docs and Sheets, Microsoft Word, Canva, yearbook design software, library catalogue system, email and calendar apps
Experience
Volunteer Library Assistant 09/2024 – Present
Raccoon River Crown Public Library Des Moines, IA
  • Volunteer about 3 hours a week shelving returns, tidying sections, and helping visitors find books, about 90 hours across 2 school years.
  • Shelve about 150 returned items a shift with 0 misplaced items found in the monthly shelf check.
  • Help run the summer reading programme for about 200 children, checking logs and handing out prizes.
Yearbook Staff, Section Editor 09/2024 – Present
Raccoon River Line High School Des Moines, IA
  • Edit a 24-page section of a 200-page yearbook, meeting all 6 publisher deadlines in 2 years.
  • Proofread about 400 names and captions a year with 0 spelling errors found in the printed book.
  • Photograph about 15 school events a year and organise the photos in a shared folder by event.
Peer Tutor 01/2025 – Present
Raccoon River Line High School, Tutoring Center Des Moines, IA
  • Tutor 5 regular students in English and Algebra for about 3 hours a week during study periods.
  • Helped 4 of 5 students raise their grade by at least 1 letter over a semester.
  • Keep a log of every session, about 90 entries so far, with the topic covered and what to review next time.
Projects

Summer Reading Programme Support. Helped run a summer reading programme for about 200 children over 8 weeks, checking reading logs at a desk, handing out prizes, and setting up 6 story-time events, and suggested a colour-coded prize chart that the librarian kept for the following summer.

Yearbook Section Redesign. Redesigned the clubs section of the yearbook with a consistent layout for 30 clubs and a photo checklist for each, which cut the number of missing club photos from 8 the previous year to 0 and was adopted for 2 other sections.

History Research Project. Wrote a 15-page research paper on the history of the local library system using archives and 3 interviews with retired librarians, which won a school history award and was displayed at the library for a month.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of the school book club, reading and discussing about 10 books a year.
  • Member of the National Honor Society, completing about 20 service hours a year.
  • Play clarinet in the school concert band, performing at about 6 concerts a year.
Leadership
  • Section editor for a yearbook staff of 20, coordinating 4 staff members on the clubs section.
  • Tutor 5 regular students and trained 2 new peer tutors on the session log.
  • Showed 4 new library volunteers the shelving system during their first shifts.
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High School Senior Resume Example

Meet Diego Fuentes, a senior heading to a computer science degree with 2 summers as a lifeguard, a coding club presidency, and an app used by 600 students. This example shows how a senior presents projects and a real job together for an internship application.

Diego Fuentes

(916) 555-0130 ◇ Sacramento, CA

diego.fuentes@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/diego-fuentes ◇ diegofuentes.com

Objective

High school senior with a 3.7 GPA seeking a summer internship or part-time role in a technology or engineering setting before starting a computer science degree in the fall. Built 4 web and mobile projects including a school event app used by 600 students, worked 2 summers as a lifeguard with a 0 incident record, and led a coding club of 18 members that placed 2nd of 30 teams at a regional hackathon. Learns fast, ships what is started, and has held a job with real responsibility.

Education
High School Diploma (in progress, expected 2027), American River Line High School 2023 – 2027

GPA 3.7; advanced placement coursework in Computer Science, Calculus, and Physics; accepted to a computer science programme starting fall 2027.

Lifeguard, CPR, and First Aid Certifications, American Red Cross 2025

Also completed a 40-hour summer web development bootcamp at a community college in 2025.

Skills
Programming
Python, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, basic SQL, building and deploying small web and mobile apps, version control, debugging from error messages
Work Habits
Reliability across 2 summers of shifts, staying alert for long periods, following safety procedures, calm under pressure, finishing projects, asking for help early
Communication and Teamwork
Explaining technical ideas to non-technical people, leading meetings for a club, presenting projects, working in a team on a deadline, giving and taking feedback
Tools & Platforms
Visual Studio Code, Git and GitHub, Google Workspace, Figma basics, Firebase, Replit, Canva, Discord for team coordination
Experience
Lifeguard (Seasonal) 06/2025 – 08/2026
American River Crown Aquatic Center Sacramento, CA
  • Guarded a 2-pool facility with about 400 daily visitors across 2 summers, working 30 hours a week.
  • Held a 0 incident record across about 600 hours on stand and passed all 8 surprise skills audits.
  • Taught 4 beginner swim lesson sessions a week to children aged 5 to 8 in the second summer.
President, Coding Club 09/2025 – Present
American River Line High School Sacramento, CA
  • Lead a coding club of 18 members, running a weekly meeting and a 6-week project cycle each semester.
  • Led a 4-person team to 2nd place of 30 at a regional hackathon with a bus arrival app built in 24 hours.
  • Grew membership from 9 to 18 in a year through 3 beginner workshops open to the whole school.
Volunteer Technology Helper 01/2025 – Present
Sacramento Line Senior Center Sacramento, CA
  • Run a 2-hour weekly drop-in session helping about 10 seniors a week with phones, email, and video calls.
  • Wrote 6 one-page picture guides for common tasks that the center prints and hands out.
  • Volunteered about 100 hours across 18 months, with 0 missed weekly sessions during the school year.
Projects

School Event App. Built a mobile web app listing school events with reminders and a map, using JavaScript and a cloud database, tested with 20 students and launched school-wide, which reached 600 users in its first semester and is now maintained by the coding club.

Hackathon Bus Arrival App. Led a 4-person team building a bus arrival predictor for 3 local routes in 24 hours using public transit data and a simple prediction model, presented to 5 judges, and placed 2nd of 30 teams.

Advanced Placement Computer Science Project. Built a Python programme that tracks pool chemistry readings and flags out-of-range values, based on the lifeguard job, with 200 real readings as test data, and earned the top project grade in a class of 26.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of the school swim team for 4 years, competing in about 10 meets a season.
  • Volunteer at a senior center, about 100 hours across 18 months.
  • Member of a regional student hackathon community, attending 3 events a year.
Leadership
  • President of an 18-member coding club, running weekly meetings and a semester project cycle.
  • Led a 4-person hackathon team to 2nd place of 30 teams at a regional 24-hour event.
  • Trained 3 new lifeguards on the rotation and scanning routine in the second summer.
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