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DURHAM ACADEMY 3601 Ridge Road Durham, NC 27705 www.da.org __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCHOOL PROFILE 2016-2017 STUDENT PROFILE DA Upper School enrolls 437 students in grades 9 through 12. The average class size is 15 with a student-faculty ratio of 8:1. Michael Ulku-Steiner Head of School GRADING SYSTEM & GPA DISTRIBUTION [email protected] Cumulative grade point averages are based on final grades earned in Durham Academy courses. Lee Hark GRADING SCALE Associate Head of School Grades are based on a 100-point scale. GPAs are based on a 4.0 scale. GPA’s are unweighted. [email protected] A+ 97-100 4.33 B+ 87-89 3.33 C+ 77-79 2.33 D+ 67-69 1.33 F < 60 0.0 Lanis Wilson A 93-96 4.0 B 83-86 3.0 C 73-76 2.0 D 63-66 1.0 Director of Upper School A- 90-92 3.67 B- 80-82 2.67 C- 70-72 1.67 D- 60-62 0.67 [email protected] Kathryn Cleaver Co-Director of College Counseling [email protected] ACADEMIC PROGRAM (919) 287-1726 Durham Academy offers a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. Honors, Advanced Placement, and post-AP courses are available in certain disciplines. It is the exception, rather than the rule, that a student in 9th and 10th grades enrolls in an advanced (honors, AP or Jazmin Garcia Smith post-AP) course. Students must earn departmental approval to enroll in advanced courses and they must receive special permission to Co-Director of College Counseling enroll in more than four advanced courses in one year. Advanced course offerings are detailed in the table below. [email protected] (919) 287-1716 Subject Honors AP Courses post-AP Courses Courses Nancy Swain College Counseling Assistant English*** English 11 English Language, English Literature [email protected] History*** Modern European History, US History, US (919) 287-1724 Gov’t. & Politics, Human Geography Mathematics* Precalculus Calculus AB, Calculus C, Statistics Multivariable Calculus, THE MISSION Geometries & Topologies, The purpose of Durham Academy is Connections, Research in to provide each student an education that will enable him or her to live a Mathematics moral, happy and productive life. The Science Chemistry Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, development of intellect is central to Physics, Physics E&M such a life and, thus, intellectual Foreign French Language, Latin: Vergil**, French & Francophone Lit endeavor and growth are the Language Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, Chinese Advanced Latin Poetry/Lit** primary work of the school. The acquisition of knowledge; the Fine Arts Music Theory, Studio Art development of skills, critical Technology Computer Science Adv. Topics in Comp Sci judgment and intellectual curiosity; Interdisciplinary Psychology, Art History and increased understanding are the goals of the school's academic *Students who complete AP Calculus AB may enroll in Calculus C, and are prepared to take the Calculus BC exam program. **AP Latin: Vergil and Advanced Latin Lyric Poetry/Literature rotate by year. ***Twelfth grade English and upper level history courses are designed by semester. Some of the offerings include: English 12: THE SCHOOL Literature of War, Hero to Anti-Hero, Contemporary Short Stories; History: The Late, Great 1968, The People’s Century, Introduction to Founded in 1933 for grades K through 8, Durham Academy is a Economics. There is NO difference in rigor among English 12 and AP English 12 offerings; the latter include instruction on the essay coeducational, nonsectarian day format of the AP English Literature eXam. school. In 1972 Durham Academy instituted a secondary school, UNIQUE ACADEMIC OFFERINGS th graduating its first Upper School class Peer Educators: Eight seniors are selected from nearly three-dozen applicants to co-teach the Life Skills course to 9 graders. These in 1975. Today the school consists of students sign a contract agreeing to serve as role models for their younger peers, both in and outside of school. Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth Teaching Literacy Skills: For credit, students travel to a neighboring elementary school, 4 class periods out of the 7-day rotation, to grades with a total of 1,203 students; tutor students identified as reading well below grade level. 437 are enrolled in grades 9 through Global Online Academy (GOA): Durham Academy is a member of Global Online Academy (GOA), a consortium of leading independent 12. Admission to Durham Academy is highly selective and based on a schools from around the world that fosters new, modern ways for students to learn and teachers to teach. GOA teachers and students student's ability to perform share their voice on a global stage, enhancing learning and enabling the pursuit of individual passions. Please see the attached Profile. satisfactorily in a college preparatory curriculum. Durham Academy does CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS not discriminate in regard to race, Durham Academy values opportunities outside of the classroom as indelible contributors to a student’s intellectual and moral growth. creed, color, or national origin. Upper School students may participate in the following programs; required programs are italicized. They include: Community Service, Students of color comprise 32% of Advisory, Independent Study, Outdoor Experiential Education Class Trips, Junior Class Civil Rights Tour of the South, Senior Challenge, the school population for 2016-2017. Senior Projects, American Field Service Exchange Programs, Sister-City Exchange Programs, Visiting Authors and Artists, partnerships with Student U and Mentorship Programs, Outreach Tutoring. The Upper School fields 24 athletic teams including: Soccer, Field Hockey, Cross Country, Lacrosse, Golf, Swimming, Track and Field, Basketball, Volleyball, Baseball, Softball, and Tennis. The following programs compete on state and/or national levels: Debate, Science Olympiad, Model UN, and Robotics. DURHAM ACADEMY _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCHOOL PROFILE 2016-2017 PAGE 2 SAT I TEST (before March 2016) SAT II SUBJECT TESTS ACT TEST Mean SAT for Class of 2017 as of September 2016: Mean scores for the Class of 2017as of September 2016: Mean ACT score: 29 CR M WR Subject Mean Score 663 650 653 Chemistry 674 NATIONAL MERIT English Lit 669 10 National Merit Semi-Finalists SAT I TEST (after March 2016) French 698 15 Commended Scholars Mean SAT for Class of 2017 as of September 2016: Latin 670 CR M Essay Math Level 1 560 ADVANCED PLACEMENT 660 640 33 Math Level 2 708 In May 2016, 195 students sat for 590 exams. Physics 785 90% earned a score of 3 or better. Spanish Language 675 US History 685 College Matriculation Classes of 2012-2016 Recent graduates of Durham Academy matriculated to more than 100 different colleges and universities. Agnes Scott College Hamilton College (2) Syracuse University American University (3) Hampden-Sydney College (3) Trinity College Appalachian State University (4) Harvard University (9) Tufts University (3) Barnard College (3) Haverford College (2) Tulane University (2) Belmont University (2) High Point University (2) University of Alabama (2) Berklee College of Music (2) Howard University University of California, Santa Barbara Boston College (5) Kenyon College University of Cambridge Boston University (3) Loyola University New Orleans University of Chicago (5) Bowdoin College (4) Macalester College University of Colorado, Boulder (3) Brown University (2) Maryland Institute College of Art University of Connecticut Bucknell University (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Georgia Carleton College (2) McDaniel College University of Maryland, College Park Carnegie Mellon University Meredith College (4) University of Massachusetts, Amherst Case Western Reserve University (2) Miami University, Oxford University of Miami (2) Chapman University (3) Muhlenberg College University of Michigan (2) College of Charleston (6) New York University (5) University of North Carolina at Clemson University (5) North Carolina A&T State University Asheville Colby College North Carolina State University (15) Chapel Hill (60) Colgate University Northeastern University (7) Charlotte (2) Colorado College (2) Northwestern University (3) Greensboro (5) Columbia University (11) Oberlin College (7) Wilmington (15) Connecticut College Pennsylvania State University University of Oregon (2) Cornell University (7) Piedmont College University of Pennsylvania (3) Dartmouth College (7) Pomona College (2) University of Richmond (2) Davidson College (8) Princeton University (8) University of South Carolina (6) Denison University Purdue University (3) University of Southern California (6) Duke University (58) Queens University of Charlotte University of St. Andrews, Scotland Duquesne University Quinnipiac University University of Sussex Durham University Radford College University of Texas, Austin Earlham College Rhodes College (2) University of Virginia (6) East Carolina University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Washington Eckerd College Santa Clara University (2) University of Wisconsin, Madison Elon University (14) Sarah Lawrence College Vanderbilt University (3) Emerson College Savannah College of Art and Design Villanova University Emory University (6) Sewanee: The University of the South Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (3) Franklin & Marshall College Skidmore