Courses
This school offers high-level courses that challenge the students enrolled. The ninth-grade coursework includes Honors and Gifted Chemistry, Honors and Gifted Physics, Accelerated Integrated Geometry, Accelerated Integrated Precalculus, Honors and Gifted Language Arts, Fundamentals of Engineering I, Foreign Language (Chinese I, German I, Spanish I, and Spanish II), and one elective class. Some of these courses are taught on a block schedule, allowing the students to earn up to 8 Carnegie units in ninth grade. The main focus of the school is mathematics, science, and technology; however, other subjects are also taught at the highest levels available. Each course is designed to integrate material from other courses into its own lessons in order to show the history and practical applications of each course.
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