Academics
George School offers a college-preparatory course of study. To graduate, students must complete 4 years of English, 3 years of mathematics, 3 years of history, 3 years of science, 3 years of arts and the religious courses noted above, and demonstrate third-year proficiency in a foreign language.
George School offers the two-year International Baccalaureate program, which certifies students to attend colleges and universities around the world.
George School also offers Advanced Placement courses and examinations in Biology, Calculus (AB), English, U.S. History, Physics, Statistics and the school's four foreign languages: French, Spanish, Latin and Chinese. Additionally, students in the Portfolio Preparation class have been known to submit their work for the Art AP.
Students must take three full years of art. George school offers classes in ceramics (mostly pottery), chorus, dance, digital imaging, drama, music seminar, newspaper (The Curious George, formerly The George School News), painting and drawing, photography, stagecraft, video production, orchestra, woodworking (mostly carpentry), and yearbook. In recent years, the school has begun to offer an Arts Foundation course that offers one trimester each of three different arts, and encourages most freshmen to begin with this course.
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