Highlights of 2014-2015

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SCORED 3 OR HIGHER ON AP EXAMS

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In May 2015, 127 students took 276 Advanced Placement exams in 15 subjects; 97% of them earned college-qualifying scores of 3 or higher.

Thirty-eight seniors and 25 juniors were recognized as AP Scholars, scoring 3 or above on at least three Advanced Placement exams.

E N H A N C E M E N T S

Seven Hills opened its new Lower Fields Athletic Complex in October 2014.

The “mid-50%� SAT scores for the Class of 2015 were among the highest in the region: Critical Reading: 620 - 690 (average 663); Math: 590 -740 (average 664); Writing: 610 -720 (average 668).

The Nellie Leaman Taft Early Childhood Center opened in August 2015.

Twenty-nine percent of the Class of 2016 (25 students) earned National Merit recognition; 10 from the graduating Class of 2015 were named National Merit finalists.

Seven Hills students distinguished themselves in a host of academic competitions across the state of Ohio in 2014 -15: Certamen (classics); the Ohio Junior Classical League; National French Contest; Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry contest; American Mathematics Competition; American Invitational Mathematics Exam; MATHCOUNTS; Model UN; Mock Trial; and Tech Olympics.

The new playground on the Doherty Campus opened in September 2 015.

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STUDENTS IN ARTS PROGRAMS

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ARTS

More than 750 students school-wide participated in arts programs; 450 students participated in elective arts courses throughout the 2 014 -15 school year.

The performing arts faculty directed 28 productions: 20 in Lower School and eight in Middle and Upper in the 2 014 -15 school year.

The visual arts faculty hosted nine installations featuring student work.

Seven Hills students participated in five major arts competitions, such as the Overture Awards, Cappies, and Junior Theater Festival, in which our Middle and Upper School students received prestigious recognition.

28 THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS

ENROLLMENT School opened in August 2014 with 1,046 students in 2 014 -15, the highest enrollment since 2006-07.

Pre-kindergarten for 2- year-olds entered a successful second year on the Doherty Campus in 2014-15, the first program of its kind in the school’s history.

Students of color made up 31% of the school’s total enrollment in 2014 -15, up from 15% just 10 years ago.

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STUDENTS ENROLLED

NEW COURSES AND PROGRAMS Doherty and Lotspeich offered a host of new enrichment activities through the “After the Bell” program in 2014 -15, and introduced supplemental instrumental music instruction began this fall for fourth and fifth graders.

Middle School launched the Innovation Lab to teach design thinking, as well as expanded its world language option to include a bridge program in spoken Spanish, and, for 2015 -16, introduced two new courses in Chinese.

Upper School launched new elective courses in biotechnology, environmental

history, computer engineering, and technical theater at the start of the 2015 -16 school year.

Seven Hills teachers attended 156 professional development conferences and workshops in 23 states and four countries, during the 2014 -15 school year.

With funding provided by The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, 38 teachers earned curriculum renewal grants to align at least one instructional unit with the school’s Twenty-first Century Learning goals.

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TEACHERS EARNED CURRICULUM RENEWAL GRANTS

SPECIAL PROGRAMS Throughout the school year, our students had access to and participated in a number of assemblies, programs, community service projects, and traveling opportunities that built upon the multi-faceted, rich learning experiences synonymous to the Seven Hills academic culture. Examples of these include: Students participated in several communitybuilding assemblies: the Kindness Retreat in Lower, the Courage Retreat and the Hunger Banquet in Middle, and the Magnified Giving program in Upper.

Students school-wide led a host of service learning projects, including: the Day without Shoes, Tunnel Walk, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation, the Middle School’s annual Caring Place and Spring Food Drive, and the Upper School’s ShantyTown project.

Our students also explored the broader world through a number of experiential learning opportunities in the form of a number of field trips to North Carolina, Shaw Farms, Glen Helen, as well as studies abroad through our foreign exchange programs in Italy, China, and Spain.

ATHLETICS Eighty-one percent (737 students) of our students in grades one through 12 participated on at least one competitive athletic team during the 2014 -15 school year. In addition, 43 Upper School students were recognized as three-season athletes.

School-wide, Seven Hills fielded 105 teams in 2014 -15: 43 in the fall, 31 in the winter, and 31 in the spring.

Seven Hills athletes won our firstever state championship (boys swimming) during the 2014-15 school year, two relay state

championships (boys swimming), two district championships (boys soccer and boys swimming) and two sectional championships (boys soccer and boys golf).

Seven Hills won six Miami Valley Conference championships in bowling, swimming, soccer, lacrosse, tennis, and softball throughout the 2014 -15 school year.

Middle School teams won league titles in seventh and eighth grade boys soccer, and girls sixth grade Soccer Association for Youth (SAY) soccer.

Two SAY soccer teams qualified for the State Tournament; two Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball teams won League Championships, and three Middle School teams finished the regular season undefeated.

Seven Hills athletes won four swimming events at the City Championship Meet and eight events at the Miami Valley Conference Track Championship Meet.

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PARTICIPATION IN COMPETITIVE ATHLETIC TEAMS