Academic Policies
Academic rigor, personal attention, and opportunities to excel outside the classroom are hallmarks of the Holton-Arms academic program. Students discover their passions and are encouraged to pursue them and develop their own unique potential.
Students receive careful guidance regarding graduation requirements and the college admissions process. We encourage all students to strive for depth and breadth as they move through Holton.
Students in grades 5 through 12 participate in a one-to-one device program. The program was established in 2000 and continues to expand. For the 2012-2013 school year students in grades 5 and 6 will use iPad 3s and students in grades 7 through 12 will use tablet laptops. Students in grades 3 and 4 have access to netbooks and iPad2 carts for in-school projects. More about the technology program.
Other Honors programs, as well as more electives, become available to students in Upper School (9th Grade). In 9th grade, Math Honors is provided to them, as well as Biology Honors. Entrance into both honors class is only given with departmental permission. In 10th grade, Math honors is again an option, as well as Chemistry Honors and History Honors, commonly known as Core I. Core I is part of a two-year intensive history program, finishing at the completion of junior (11th) year.
Holton offers a wide variety of AP courses to students in 11th and 12th grades, including AP Art History, AP Spanish, AP Biology and AP Calculus. As graduation requirements, Holton students must have received four credits (four years) of Upper School English, three credits in one foreign language, three math credits, including Geometry and Trigonometry, three credits in history and the social sciences, and three science credits, including biology.
Some rising seniors go on Global Education trips, journeys of 15 to 18 days to Costa Rica, Senegal or India.
Read more about this topic: Holton-Arms School
Famous quotes containing the words academic and/or policies:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked facial resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.”
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980)