Academics
John Carroll offers a college preparatory curriculum. In addition to general education, John Carroll teaches Catholic and democratic principles and gives consistent attention to Catholic moral and religious training.
The John Carroll curriculum includes four full years of English, Mathematics, and Religious Studies; three years of a Foreign Language, Social Studies, and Science; two semesters of fine art electives; and one semester each of physical education and health. John Carroll offers 17 different AP courses in addition to college preparatory and honors courses. John Carroll students can choose between Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and Latin. Unfortunately, Russian and Latin will no longer to be offer due to teacher retirements. In addition to these course requirements, John Carroll students must participate in annual retreat, attend junior college counseling, complete a senior project, and accumulate over 60 hours of community service.
At the end of studiesevery senior complete a senior project, in which students pursue original research and scholarship in a topic of their choosing.
John Carroll's has an International Student Program, run by a Coordinator (Sandi Seiler as of 2013). The program comprises approximately 8-10% of John Carroll’s total student body with students coming from Canada, China, Cameroon, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Spain and South Korea. These international students are integral members of the John Carroll community taking classes side by side with other students. All female students live with host families, many of whom have children attending John Carroll. Male students may choose to live on campus at the newly remodeled St. Francis Hall or with individual host families. Chinese students attending John Carroll are accepted through partnership with the Cambridge Institute for International Education.
John Carroll students participate in various exchanges and trips with sister schools and ACIS - Educational Tours. Destination of these exchanges and trips include China, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Spain. John Carroll has also participated in a cultural exchange with La Salle High School, a Catholic high school located in Hakodate, Japan involving over 300 students. John Carroll regularly holds cultural fairs sponsored by the Culture Shock Club. Annually, the senior Anthropology class sponsors the Morning Star Pow Wow to raise money for St. Labre Indian School. The Morning Star Pow Wow raises an average of four thousand US dollars.
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“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)