Academics
J.K. Mullen's academic year follows the trimester system: five 70-minute classes a day, 15 classes per year. This provides for both the school’s solid core of college prep, honors, and AP courses and a selection of over 130 sections of academic electives. In addition, all students select and complete their own community service projects.In order to graduate each student must have a total of 70 hours. Since 1983, students have logged over 400,000 hours of service to the people of Denver, Colorado and beyond.
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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?”
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