Students must satisfy specific physical education requirements depending on their grade level at enrollment. In addition to those requirements, all students must pass a swimming competency test to graduate. The program in religion familiarizes students with the roots of Judeo-Christian heritage and introduces them to major religions of the world, thus helping them to better understand and appreciate the role of religion within human life. The instrictors take the approach that the world's religious traditions contain the distilled wisdom of humanity and thus, their philosophies and sacred texts are treated with the utmost respect. To fulfill graduation requirements, students entering in the ninth, tenth, or eleventh grades must take at least one course in this department.
All courses are term offerings.
It is recommended that students not begin their study in this department until their tenth-grade year. The Science Department helps students to explore natural phenomena and gain an understanding of the mechanisms of natural laws. The curriculum is designed to develop skills of critical thinking and reasoning, spoken and written communication, reading comprehension, observation and testing, and data analysis. In progressing from basic to advanced courses, students become increasingly adept at making observations, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, using scientific tools and equipment, and applying mathematics and statistics. Students also learn to use computers, exploring software programs for word processing, spreadsheet development, statistical analysis, graphical analysis, and databases.