Advanced Honors Classes

Students entering seventh grade have an opportunity to participate in advanced honors classes.  Qualifying criteria for advanced honors classes are as follows:

*Literature, Math, and Science (must meet three of four criteria)

· Report card grade previous year – at least  87%

· Standardized test scores previous year – at least 85th percentile (combined math and combined language)

· Teacher recommendation

· Parent Approval

For students to remain in advanced honors classes for the full year, at the end of the first semester, the student must maintain a grade of 87% or higher.  A grade lower than 87% may result in the child being moved into the regular honors classes.

 The goal of Advanced Honors is to ready students for Advanced Placement classes in high school.

The benefits include -

1.  allowing the advanced students to move at a faster pace

2. challenging students to use higher-level thinking skills and work harder beyond rote memorization facts

3. allowing students to take electives in high school in fine arts and athletics because more space is available on their schedule

4. giving confidence and decreases stress as the students move into a new  school setting and discover they are prepared academically, consequently, this helps make the social transition smoother

5. keeping the students competitive with honors programs in other private and public middle schools