Core Courses

The high school offers a wide range of academic courses. Our experienced and knowledgeable faculty members engage students using innovative lesson plans in each subject area.

Using the most current technology and resources, the Language Arts department helps students embark on a literacy journey of World Cultures, World Literature, American Literature, American Sign Language, and British Literature. Best Practices in signing, reading, and writing helps our students achieve the California English-Language Arts state standards. The ASL course concentrates on the study of linguistics, which greatly enhances our students’ language, literacy, and linguistic development. Our Honors and Advanced Placement English courses challenge our students further.

Our Science courses emphasize learning through laboratory experiments, hands-on tasks, and group work. Students learn to ask questions, design experiments, and analyze data, facts and theories. Through discovery and discussion, they form interconnections and relate science to everyday experiences. Students work in the fully-equipped science laboratory in the building. Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Health Education, and Physics are offered here.

In addition to state-standards course content, the Social Studies Department integrates many aspects of bringing the world inside the classroom such as having guest speakers. Students also run mock elections and debates, conduct interviews and create documentaries about units learned. Social science classes are concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals and include World History, American History, United States Government, and Economics.

Use of technology such as Smartboards, graphing calculators, and online interactive curriculum along with group work and hands-on activities allow students in the Mathematics department to develop their problem-solving skills in classes such as Algebra, Algebra II, Calculus, Essential Mathematics, Geometry, Personal Finance, Pre-Calculus, and Preparatory Mathematics (assisting with university placement tests).