Baylor School - Academics

Academics

• Baylor School's mission is to foster in its students both the desire and the ability to make a positive difference in the world.
• Baylor offers 22 Advanced Placement courses. In 1954 it was one of only 38 secondary schools, and the only one in the South, invited to participate in the new AP program.
• Baylor's core curriculum consists of mathematics, English, science, history, and language classes. Baylor offers language classes in the following languages: Spanish, French, Latin, German, and Chinese
• 76% of Baylor's most recent senior class took at least one AP class, while 48% of the most recent junior class took at least one AP class and 8% of the most recent sophomore class took an AP class.
• The graduating class of 2011 sent four graduates to Ivy League schools. There were also two students who attended Stanford University, which is not an Ivy League School. Colleges chosen most often the class of 2011 were the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (13), the University of Alabama (9), Sewanee: The University of the South (7), the University of Mississippi (6), the University of Florida (5), the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (5), Georgia Southern University (5), and Emory University (4).