Academics
The Sidwell Friends Upper School has a particularly strong English Department. In 2005, Sidwell's AP English Exam scores were the highest in the nation for all medium-sized schools (300–799 students in grades 10–12) offering the AP English exam. Sidwell does not offer an AP English course.
All students must acquire at least 19 credits before graduating. Students are required to take four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of history, two years of one foreign language, two years of science, and two years of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take a one-semester Freshman Studies course.
Sidwell has one of the region's strongest Chinese studies programs, with classes in Mandarin beginning in Lower School and extensive Chinese history courses offered in the Upper School. Every year the Sidwell Friends Upper School is host to two Chinese exchange students.
Sidwell is a member school of School Year Abroad.
Sidwell does not release a list of its graduates' college destinations. However, it does release a list to the parents of its current seniors, of the top 25 most attended institutions (in no particular order) over the last 5 years. The most recent list had such schools listed as Yale, Harvard, The University of Notre Dame, Penn, Brown University, Cornell University, Columbia, Northwestern, Chicago, Sewanee: The University of the South, Washington University in St. Louis, Middlebury, Duke, Wesleyan, Michigan, George Washington, and Tufts.
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