2018 BHS Profile
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Binghamton High School An International Baccalaureate World School Profile for College and University Admissions Binghamton City School District 2018-2019 Mission Statement Tonia Thompson, Ed. D. The Binghamton City School District’s mission is Superintendent of Schools to educate, empower and challenge all students to (607)762-8100 become productive, global citizens through innovative binghamtonschools.org approaches to learning. IB Learner Profile Binghamton High School The aim of the IB Program is to develop 31 Main Street internationally minded people who recognize Binghamton, NY 13905 their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet and help to create a better and more peaceful world. IB learners strive to be inquirers, Kevin J. Richman knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, Principal open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective. 2018 Achievements Counseling & Guidance • Binghamton High School is home to the world-renowned Rod Serling School of Fine Arts. Derek Gouldin Jennifer Farrell • Binghamton High School offers more than 50 Fine Arts courses. John Matyas • Binghamton High School offers 17 International Baccalaureate courses in six subject groups, Matthew Roberts 14 International Baccalaureate Career Pathways courses, 10 Advanced Placement courses Glenn Whittington and five courses in the Project Lead the Way Pre-Engineering Academy. Kathryn Yezzi • Binghamton High School offers nine fast forward or articulated courses with college credit from Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Delhi and SUNY Broome. IB Coordinator • Binghamton High School offers second-language study in American Sign Language, James Gill Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. • 85 percent or more of continuously enrolled students at BHS graduate on time. • Our graduating seniors attended 73 different colleges or universities across the country. • Binghamton High School offers work-based learning opportunities to place students in internships in professional fields to explore potential careers. • Binghamton High School offers career and technical pathways in business, accounting and culinary arts. • In 2017-2018 Binghamton High School Seniors completed more than 4,000 hours of community service. • 80% of our sports teams were named Scholar Athlete Teams by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. The Community The Binghamton area offers the best of both worlds: a picturesque landscape and close-knit family-oriented community combined with the flavor, culture and opportunities of a larger city. Located at the confluence of two rivers and nestled in the rolling hills of Broome County, Binghamton is emerging as a health-care and education focused city. Our partners, Binghamton University and SUNY Broome, act as catalysts for local growth and sustained future. There are a wide range of cultural, athletic and educational activities including the Roberson Museum, the Discovery Center, the Kopernik Observatory, youth and adult symphonies, theatre groups, the Tri-Cities Opera and semi-pro baseball and hockey teams. The District The Curriculum The Binghamton City School District is the largest public Binghamton High School offers a wide array of curricular school district in the central southern tier of New York options beyond New York State Regents and Advanced State. It is ranked as the 23rd largest public school in Regents coursework. Binghamton is one of 869 schools upstate New York. It is made up of seven elementary in the US and 2,683 schools world-wide who are schools, two middle schools and a high school. The authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma district enrollment of 5,300 students is served by a faculty Programme, a rigorous program of study across all areas and support staff of 1,100. The district fully commits all of the curriculum. Additionally, Binghamton students resources to fulfilling its mission to educate, empower may participate in Project Lead the Way, pre-engineering and challenge all students to become productive, global academy, administered through the Rochester Institute of citizens through innovative approaches to learning. The Technology. Students can also participate in New Visions, district invests in an extensive arts program including the a program though our local BOCES that provides seniors internationally acclaimed Rod Serling School of Fine Arts real-world experience in business, engineering, education, at the high school. Musical performances and productions human development, law and government, health/ medicine begin in the elementary schools and continue through and energy technology. Binghamton students often the middle school and high school. The district is one of simultaneously earn college credits through the affiliation only a handful in the state and nation with the district- with SUNY Broome, SUNY Delhi and Rochester Institute wide accreditation from the Middle States Association. of Technology. Binghamton High School is the home to the Binghamton partners with numerous community leaders internationally acclaimed Rod Serling School of Fine Arts. and organization to facilitate cutting edge educational Since its inception in 1995, it has become a model for Fine research and state-of-the-art practices in the classroom. Arts education within New York State and in many districts The district also invests in its staff and provides over throughout the nation. $500,000 annually in research-informed teacher training. Course Level Designations: IB- International Baccalaureate AP- Advanced Placement E or H- Enriched/Honors R- Regents IB courses are open to The AP program is open These courses cover all These courses are based on those students who seek a to any students, who seek the work required at the the state prescribed or state challenging and rigorous a challenging academic Regents level and satisfy the approved curricula. Their academic program. program. The students will requirements for the state successful completion is Students must take an IB be prepared to take the AP diploma or endorsement. required for a state Regents examination in May. The examination in the spring The work covered is more diploma or endorsement of IB is recognized by most for possible college credit. intensified and personalized. the school district diploma. major universities in North The degree of the America as well as across modification depends on the the world. Students may student population. earn college credit. International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement IB Courses AP Courses English SL/HL AP English 10 French SL/HL AP Studio Art Spanish SL/HL AP Calculus Mandarin Chinese SL/HL AP World History History of the Americas SL/HL AP Physics Philosophy SL AP Art History Business Management SL AP Biology Biology SL/HL AP Chemistry Environment Systems and Societies SL AP Environmental Science Chemistry SL AP American History Mathematics SL Math Studies SL Articulated Courses/ Fast Visual Arts SL/HL Forward: Theatre SL/HL Any course designated ATC Music Theory (Articulated Courses) refers to an agreement between Theory of Knowledge, CAS, EE BHS and various colleges. Students are required to complete their studies Graduation Requirements: IB Career-Related Programme Courses in their chosen program at BHS and may To become a graduate of a New York State Design and Drawing for Production be granted college credit upon successful public high school, a minimum of 22 units Approaches to Learning completion. of credit is required. Including four units of Principles of Engineering Project Lead the Way Coursework- Rochester English, four units of social studies, three units Institute of Technology Computer Integrated Manufacturing of science, three units of mathematics, ½ unit Engineering Design and Development Design and Drawing for Production (SUNY of health, one unit of art or music, one unit Career and Financial Management Broome/ RIT) of a world language and two units of physical Accounting I Culinary Arts I-IV (SUNY Delhi) education along with the New York State Accounting II Digital Electronics (SUNY Broome) Regents Exams or their equivalent. Binghamton High, with its eitght daily periods of instruction, Entrepreneurship Medical Terminology (SUNY Broome) offers an opportunity to graduate early or Business Management Health Science Series (SUNY Broome) experience up to 32 credits of course work. Quantitative Business Methods Advanced Photography (SUNY Broome) Marketing Principals (SUNY Broome) The Regents Diploma with Advanced Sports Marketing Designation requires all of the above, plus two Engineering Design and Development (SUNY Business Law additional years of a world language with two Broome) Computer Tech Concepts additional Regents exams in math and one 10% of our students are enrolled in college additional Regents exam (or equivalent) each in credit-bearing courses world languages and science. College Enrollment Binghamton High School Philosophy Education is a lifelong process BHS Class of 2018 which requires the presence, attention Albany College of Pharmacy Seton Hall University and support of other people. It and Health Sciences St. Bonaventure University is nevertheless, a Alfred University St. John Fisher College self-motivating Binghamton University St. John’s University task. The role of Boston University Stony Brook University Binghamton High Bucknell University SUNY Alfred State School is to prepare Cazenovia College SUNY Brockport students with the Clarkson University SUNY Broome necessary skills and College of Staten Island