Academics
The minimum graduation requirement for upper school students is 16 course credits, including four years of English, 3 years of math, 3 years of the same foreign language, 2½ years of history, 3 years of science, and 2½ years of fine arts, as well as a physical education requirement each year.
The faculty consists of 118 full-time teachers and 10 part-time teachers, of whom 66 have a masters degree and eight hold doctoral degrees. The average tenure of the faculty is 18 years. The school has introduced a laptop program (all 6th through 12th grade students are issued laptop computers to use in and out of school for their assignments) as well as the addition of Smartboard technology to each classroom.
The school follows a semester system with 80-minute classes that each meet three times in a six-day rotation. Exams for upper school students take place only once per school year, in mid-March immediately prior to Spring Break.
The ranges of SAT scores for the middle 50% of the Class of 2010 were 610-740 (Critical Reading), 630-730 (Math) and 630-730 (Writing).
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