Courses
Contrary to the school's title, it offers many classes in all subjects, not just mathematics and science. Each student in the program takes the same English, history, and science classes in freshman and sophomore year with students enrolled in different math courses based on their backgrounds. Because the program accepts a limited number of students, there is only one teacher for each of the four core classes. Thus the teachers work together in planning their curricula so that the themes of each class connect. In junior year, most students begin to replace standard English, history, science, and math classes with College Board AP classes. The most advanced math students will take AP BC Calculus in their sophomore or junior year and move on to higher levels of college math before they graduate.
Students have easy access to AP courses (including Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, AB and BC calculus, European History, Literature, Music Theory, U.S. History, U.S. Government, Statistics, Latin), as well as John Tyler Dual Enrollment courses (Differential Equations, Advanced Mathematical Modeling, Linear Algebra, Microbiology, Human Heredity, College Composition), and some VCU courses (i.e. VCU Life Sciences 101). Many of these courses are offered to the regular Clover Hill students, but because of less intensive courses in freshman and sophomore year, they are much less likely to meet the prerequisites.
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“All the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)