FACULTY 56 members 49 with advanced degrees 4 college counselors 7.5:1 student/faculty ratio
The Seven Hills School - Class of 2022 SEVEN HILLS HIGHLIGHTS
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
• • • • •
This program helps students develop self-awareness of where their interests lie, facilitates exploration of those interests, and provides students with pertinent real-world experiences through job shadows, internships, community service, college course work, and other relevant activities. Students may elect to earn concentrations in such fields as Community Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, Global Citizenship, Political Engagement, The Arts, Technology and Innovation, Engineering and Design, Integrated Wellness, or Social Justice.
All students take an advanced college preparatory curriculum Financial Aid awarded to 31% of Upper School students Students come from 60 ZIP codes Student body includes 38% students of color Flexible Credit – Alternative ways of earning credit through online, college, or self-designed and mentored projects • Study Abroad – Exchange/home-stay experiences in China, France, Spain, and Greece and Italy • Athletics: 85% of students play a team sport • Arts: 75% of the Class of 2021 took arts courses beyond our requirements
CLASS SIZES FALL 2021 Grade 9 – 105 Grade 10 – 91 Grade 11 – 99 Grade 12 – 90 CALENDAR Two 18-week semesters, each divided into two 9-week quarters. Block schedule: 80-minute classes in two-day rotation
MAY TERM INTENSIVES
ACADEMIC RIGOR • Admission to Honors and AP courses is selective and depends on past performance and departmental approval. Due to the rigor of those courses, students are counseled to limit the number they take • All AP students are expected to take the AP exam. • Post-AP electives–Multivariable Calculus, French 5 Honors, Spanish 5 Honors
After spring exams, when all regular classes are finished, our ninth-, tenth-, and eleventh-graders choose a one-week experiential education course to finish the year. Some examples: furniture design and construction, food production and processing, medical careers, architecture and murals, and many more.
GRADING INFORMATION WEIGHTED GRADES ON 4.0 SCALE Introductory College Prep: no weight College Prep with pre-req: additional +.25 weight Honors Courses:
AP and Post-AP Courses: additional +1.0 weight
COVID-RELATED NEWS School-year 2020-21: Except for the three weeks between Thanksgiving and Winter Break, Seven Hills was in school and in person for the entire school year. Students who were quarantined or had other reasons to have learn remotely followed a full-day synchronous schedule and came to school to take timed and graded assessments. School-year 2021-22: We opened the school in August, 2021, with robust mask and other PPE protocols and with more than 97% of high school students, faculty, and staff fully vaccinated. Only students with COVID-related medical needs were granted permission to learn remotely.
TEST SCORES:
Within this student profile, please find five-year averages for AP and ACT tests. We have so few SAT results from both last year and this year that we’ve eliminated that section of the profile.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT TESTS Five-Year Averages 2017-2021 TEST
%3 and higher AVG score
additional +.5 weight
5
4
3
2
1
Total
Biology
94%
3.8
7
20
9
2
0
38
Calculus AB
87%
3.9
8
9
5
3
0
25
Calculus BC
96%
4.4
12
6
3
0
0
21
Chemistry
96%
4.1
8
6
7
1
0
22
Chinese
83%
4
0
0
0
0
0
4
Comp Sci A
90%
4
6
5
3
1
0
15
English Lang
97%
4
16
19
8
1
0
45
English Lit
93%
4
12
16
11
3
0
42
European Hist
98%
4.2
11
8
5
0
0
25
French
100%
4.2
2
5
1
0
0
8
Latin
97%
4
2
1
1
0
0
4
Physics C (E&M)
59%
3
4
4
2
4
2
14
Physics C (Mech)
86%
4
7
4
3
1
1
16
Spanish Lang
100%
4.7
5
2
0
0
0
7
Spanish Lit
100%
4.7
2
2
0
0
0
3
US History
96%
4.2
13
12
6
1
0
32
ADVANCED PLACEMENT SCHOLARS
(as of July 2021):
20 AP Scholars: average score 3.73 19 AP Scholars with Honor: average score 4.08 37 AP Scholars with Distinction: average score 4.33
“Pass” is given no weight nor is it computed in GPs. It is computed in credits earned. Full course list by weight is available at: 7hills.org/weighting
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS Academic Curriculum: • • • • • •
English – 4 credits Math – 4 credits History – 3 credits Science – 3 credits World Language – 3 credits F ine and Performing Arts – 1.5 credits • Health and PE – 1 credit Personal Challenge: Self-designed, self-conducted project defended before faculty committee and presented to school community Community Service: Individual volunteer project culminating in written reflection May Term: A one-week experiential education course; new courses offered every year