Academics
Cardozo High School offers a wide variety of Honors and Advanced Placement Courses, including AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Literature, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B, AP Psychology, AP Environmental Science, AP Statistics, AP Computer Science A, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP U.S. History, AP World History, AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP Microeconomics.
The school's Science Olympiad team consistently ranks in the top five at the New York City Regional Competition. The team won second place in 2008, third place in 2009, and fourth place in 2010. On February 5, 2011, the school's Science Olympiad team ranked first for the first time since 1999 at the New York City Regional Science Olympiad Competition, ranking above Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, Townsend Harris High School, Dalton School, Trinity School, Archbishop Molloy High School, and Collegiate School, schools renowned for their academic rigor.
The Debate team won the NYC championship in 2008.
Cardozo's chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) consistently places among the top students/schools on the city-level and on the state level of the competitions in various competitive events such as Marketing, Economics, Personal Finance, Business Math, Cyber Security, Parliamentary Procedures, Networking Concepts, Business Procedures, Hospitality Management, Accounting I, Sports Management, and more. Students place in the top of their competitive events, gaining higher rankings than students from schools such as Ward Melville HS, Brighton HS, Mamaroneck HS, Jericho HS, Shenendehowa HS, and many other schools. In 2011, Cardozo FBLA went on to the national level of the competitions in Orlando, Florida.
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