High School Curriculum

The middle and high school curriculum aims to reinforce the skills previously learned and continue to support and develop moral, civic and intellectual skills and values.

High School Sciences

Biology

Biology provides a review and extension of the Biological principles including: themes of biology, chemistry in the living cells, and biochemistry, which includes molecules of life and the structures of the cell. Furthermore, this course includes genetics, the fundamentals of genetics, Mendel's experiments, nucleic acids with their function and structures. Finally, the students will study plant structure, function, and reproduction.

Chemistry

Chemistry provides the basis for students to address consumer, health, safety, environmental, technological, societal, and scientific issues on a daily basis. This laboratory-based course encourages critical thinking and the use of basic chemical concepts and scientific strategies.

Environmental Science

Environmental science covers many types of pollution, atmosphere and climate change, the importance of the ozone shield, land use, food and agriculture, mining and mineral resources. Students learn to differentiate between nonrenewable and renewable energy sources.

Physics

Physics introduces mechanics, quantifying motion, explaining it in terms of forces, energy and momentum. This allows analysis of many familiar phenomena and the mechanics of planets, stars and galaxies. Prerequisites: Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and Trigonometry.

High School Mathematics

Geometry

Students study circles, chords, secants, tangents, area, perimeter, coordinate geometry, surface area and volume of solids, congruent segments, parallel and perpendicular lines, transformations, and the Pythagorean Theorem.

Algebra II

Systems of equations and inequalities, exponents and exponential functions, factoring, quadratic equations, polynomial expressions, and elementary properties of functions. Mathematical modeling of real-life problems is a major theme.

Pre-Calculus

Completes the formal study of elementary functions. Students focus on trigonometric functions, inverses, complex numbers, exponential and logarithmic functions, and identities.

Calculus

Introduces the basics of limit, differential and integral calculus and their applications. Topics include the slope of a curve, rate of change, properties of limits, derivatives, extrema, the Mean Value Theorem, integration, area and volume.