Academics
City Honors School has such an academic intensive program that a test is required to become a student. This test can be taken in the November before the next school year. There are multiple testing days throughout the month. For example, to enter in as a 5th grade student, the test must be taken in the 4th grade year.
City Honors currently offers Advanced Placement & International Baccalaureate courses to its high school students. The IB program was authorized in 1989 and graduated its first class in 1992. The IB courses that are offered at City Honors include English A1 HL (Higher Level), Language B SL (French, Spanish or Mandarin) (Standard Level), Economics SL, History of the Americas HL, Biology SL/HL, Physics SL/HL, Environmental Systems & Societies SL, Mathematics SL, Mathematics Studies SL, Film HL, Visual Arts HL, and Theory of Knowledge (ToK). The school was authorized as a Middle Years Program (MYP) school in Summer 2008. This brings the IB program to grades 5-10 as well. At a minimum, all juniors and seniors take two years of IB English, this is a requirement to graduate from City Honors School and can bring college credit if a student does well enough in the course.
AP Exams offered at City Honors include: English Language and Composition, English Literature (taken by all sophomores), World History (taken by all sophomores), U.S. History (taken by all juniors), Calculus, Statistics, Biology, Physics, Environmental Science, French, Spanish, Chinese, Art History, Geography, Music Theory, and Studio Art. All students must take AP Literature and AP World History in 10th grade and AP U.S. History and Government in 11th grade.
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