MARET SCHOOL Maret is an independent, coeducational K–12 day school located on a historic single campus in Washington, 3000 Cathedral Avenue, NW DC. Founded in 1911 by three immigrant sisters from France, our mission is to ignite our students’ potential; Washington, DC 20008-3498 foster their academic, artistic, and athletic talents; and promote their well-being. Maret provides a vigorous and dynamic curriculum, created by a skilled faculty of lifelong learners. Maret is an inclusive community www.maret.org that embraces diversity of perspective, experience, identity, circumstance, and talent. We are guided by our seven core values: Respect+Integrity, Excellence+Creativity, The Individual+Connectedness, and Joy. Students Marjo Talbott graduate well equipped to excel in future academic endeavors and to lead confident and fulfilling lives in an Head of School ever-changing world.

Steven Tejada Faculty Students at a Glance Head of Upper School 113 teaching faculty u Senior Class: 77 students

Alexander (Allie) Levey Student/Faculty Ratio u Upper School: 320 students Director of College Counseling 6:1 u 51% identify as students of color 202-939-8882 [email protected] Student Body u 25% receive need-based aid

650, with 320 in Grades 9 through 12 u Admitting one student for every eight applicants Maurice Jackson Assistant Director of Graduation Credit Requirements u Students from 86 different zip codes in the College Counseling District of Columbia, , and 21 credits (1 credit = 1 full year course) 202-939-8823 [email protected]

Krsna Jackson Minimum Distribution Requirements Registrar Humanities: 7 credits including 4 foundational The Arts and Technology: 2 credits total: 1 credit in 202-939-8888 courses (Elements of Literature, American either performing arts or visual art and 1 additional [email protected] Literature, Shaping of the Modern World, US credit in either performing arts, visual art, or History); 2 additional credits must be in literature technology CEEB Number: 090115 Mathematics: Completion of math progression Electives: From any discipline to fill the 21 credit through Precalculus or 4 years of mathematics requirement Science: 3 credits; at least one credit in each Physical Education: 11 of 12 seasons, or discipline of biology, chemistry, and physics participation on 2 Maret team sports per year; no credit given (n/c) World Languages and Classics: 3 credits in 1 language, or 2 credits in each of 2 languages Wellness: 4 years (no credit) Community Service: 30 hours

Grading and Advanced Placement Malone Schools Online Network Courses As a matter of school policy, Maret does not rank and Special Academic Options Maret is a founding member of the Malone Schools its students. We provide an unweighted year-end Online Network, a consortium of 26 schools, GPA as well as a cumulative unweighted GPA on including Stanford’s Online High School, that offers a 4.0 scale. While we do not designate “Honors” synchronous “virtual Harkness table” classes across or “Advanced Placement” courses, and we do not the country. These courses are designated ‘MSON’ participate in the AP course audit, many of our on the Maret transcript and are offered in a wide students choose to take Advanced Placement range of disciplines. The MSON courses are available exams. If students receive scores of 4 or 5 on to students who have exhausted curricular offerings their AP exams and choose to share them, those in a particular subject area (Chinese V, Multivariable scores will be reported on their official transcripts. Calculus) or who want to pursue a new subject area Only courses taken at Maret, including MSON, are (Arabic, Organic Chemistry). factored into the students’ grade point averages as reported on the Maret transcript. Disciplinary Actions Senior Class Academic Profile 2018–2021 Because Maret believes that students learn from mistakes, we sometimes send students home to MEANS FOR: GPA SAT–EBRW SAT–M ACT begin a process of remediation. Serious student Class of 2021 3.59 N/A N/A N/A misconduct in grades nine through twelve that Class of 2020 3.53 686 677 30.8 results in suspensions of two or more days Class of 2019 3.38 683 670 30.6 or expulsion is reported to colleges. Serious Class of 2018 3.28 680 660 30.0 disciplinary issues that occur at any time may be reported if the student applies to other schools or programs. Other disciplinary issues may remain confidential at the discretion of the Division Director and the Head of School. College Matriculation Members of the classes of 2016–2020 enrolled in the following four-year colleges and universities. Bold indicates Class of 2020 matriculation. The numbers in parentheses indicate the total number of Maret School students from the classes of 2016–2020 who enrolled at each institution.

The University of Alabama University of Chicago Goucher College (2) Mount Holyoke College Skidmore College (2) Virginia Military Institute Amherst College Christopher Newport Hamilton College (4) Muhlenberg College (2) Smith College University of Virginia (4) Arizona State University University (2) Harvard University (5) New York University (8) University of Southern Wake Forest University (3) Babson College (4) Cleveland Institute of Music Harvey Mudd College The University of North California (7) Washington and Jefferson Baldwin Wallace University Colby College (4) Haverford College (2) Carolina at Chapel Hill Spelman College (3) College Bard College Colgate University (3) Hobart and William Smith Northeastern University (7) University of St Andrews Washington University Bates College (3) College of William and Colleges Northwestern University (7) University of St. Thomas in St. Louis (12) Beloit College Mary (2) Howard University Oberlin College of Arts and Stanford University (4) Wellesley College Boston College University of Colorado The University of Illinois at Sciences (6) Swarthmore College (4) Wesleyan University (9) Bowdoin College (3) at Boulder (4) Urbana-Champaign Occidental College (6) Syracuse University (5) Whitman College Bowie State University Colorado College (5) The Olin College of Temple University (3) Williams College (3) Brandeis University Columbia University (3) Johns Hopkins University (2) Engineering (2) The University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of British Connecticut College Kenyon College Pennsylvania Academy of Austin Madison Columbia (2) University of Connecticut Lafayette College (2) the Fine Arts Texas Christian University Wofford College Brown University (10) Cornell University (2) Lawrence University University of The New School (4) Worcester Polytechnic Bucknell University Dartmouth College (4) Lehigh University Pennsylvania (7) University of Toronto (2) Institute University of California, Davis Davidson College Loyola University New Pitzer College Towson University (2) Yale University (6) University of California, Denison University (2) Orleans (2) Pomona College (3) Trinity College (2) Los Angeles (3) DePaul University Macalester College (3) Princeton University (4) Tufts University (9) University of California, Dickinson College (5) University of Maryland, Purdue University Tulane University (9) San Diego (2) Drexel University (2) College Park (2) Reed College (3) Union College (New York) University of California, University of Massachusetts- Rhode Island School Air Force Santa Barbara Eckerd College Amherst of Design Academy University of California, The University of Edinburgh McGill University Rice University (4) United States Naval Academy Santa Cruz Elon University Miami University, Oxford (3) University of Richmond (3) Vanderbilt University (7) Carleton College (4) Emory University (3) University of Miami (3) Roanoke College Vassar College (5) Carnegie Mellon University Franklin & Marshall College (3) University of Michigan (7) University of Rochester (8) University of Vermont (3) Centre College George Mason University Middlebury College (6) Scripps College (5) Villanova University Chapman University The George Washington Morgan State University Sewanee: The University of Virginia Commonwealth College of Charleston (3) University (3) Morehouse College the South University (2)

Curriculum

Humanities Environmental Bioethics Philosophy in Pop Culture Biotechnology: Techniques Advanced French Grammar Advanced Technical Theatre Required Courses (MSON)** (MSON)** and Applications* Francophone Cultures Required Courses Globalization and the The Question of Evil from CSI: MSON Forensic Science The Question of Evil from Visual Art English 9: Literature of Our Modern World Voltaire to Camus (MSON)** Voltaire to Camus Grade 9 Core Courses Multicentric World Relationships Einstein’s Relativity and The Spanish Clay Core History 9: History of Our Making Ethical Medical Choices Mathematics Evolution of the Quantum Spanish 1 Drawing and Painting Core Multicentric World in a Diverse World (MSON)* Geometry Model (MSON)* Intensive Spanish Photography Core English 10: Literature, Culture, Multiculturalism and Social Advanced Geometry Genetics and Genomics: Spanish 2 Sculpture Core and Identity in the United Justice in the American Algebra 2 & Trigonometry Diving into the Gene Pool Spanish 3 Advanced Courses States Musical Theatre Advanced Algebra 2 & (MSON)* Spanish 4 Advanced Clay US History: History, Culture, Political Identity, American Trigonometry Introduction to Organic Spanish in Film Advanced Computer Graphics and Identity of the United Democracy and Civic Accelerated Algebra 2 & Chemistry (MSON)* Topics in Latino Cultures (fall, spring, or full year) States or Accelerated Engagement (MSON)* Trigonometry Lab Research in Biology** Advanced Spanish through Advanced Drawing and History, Culture, and Positive Psychology Precalculus Modern Physics and Space Film and Literature Painting Identity of the United (MSON)*** Advanced Precalculus Topics** (MSON)** Advanced Furniture and States Sugar, Tobacco, Iron and Accelerated Elementary Waves, Optics, and Musical Advanced Spanish Linguistics Three-Dimensional Design History and Social Science Silicon: An Economic Functions Physics* (MSON)* Advanced Mixed Media Electives OR Literature History of the U.S. (MSON)* Advanced Statistics Summer Science Elective Survey of Hispanic Literature Advanced Publications Electives Think Global, Debate Local, Calculus Subtropical Zone Ecology— Hispanic Cultures Design “American” Odyssey*** (MSON)* AB Calculus Puerto Rico Hispanic Literature Advanced Photography Bob Dylan’s America (MSON)* Wartime Dissent in American BC Calculus Comparative Literature Advanced Sculpture (not Communist Cultural History (MSON)* A Mathematical Modeling World Languages Summer Electives offered 2020–2021) Revolutions of 20th Literature Electives Approach to Social Justice Classics Maret in Spain Advanced Art Seminar: century* Autobiographical (MSON)** Intermediate Latin: Heroes Maret in France Photography (not offered Human’s Evolving Ethnographies* Multivariable Calculus (at and History 2020–21) Relationship with the Earth Black Women Writers** Maret and MSON) Advanced Latin: Rhetoric and Technology Advanced Art Seminar: Law, Culture, and Society Comedy and Satire Advanced Applied Math Epic Literature Programming and Design Studio Art Nuestra America Comparative Literature through Finance (MSON)** Lovers, Warriors, Poets, & Fundamentals Advanced Art Courses: Levels The Power of Story Contemporary American Thinkers of the Ancient Computer Science and 2 and 3 Sports and Identity* Literature Science Mediterranean Programming in Java Sports and Industry** Creative Fiction Writing Biology Ancient Greek 1 (Language Data Structures and Design P.E. and Lifetime Activities 20th Century Middle Eastern Workshop** Biology 9 and Literature) (MSON) Patterns (MSON) Step Team, Strength and History and Revolutions** Creative Nonfiction Writing Biology 11/12 Modern Languages Explorations in Computer Conditioning, Upper School History and Social Science Workshop* Advanced Biology Arabic Science: Solving Musical Cast, Yoga Electives Creative Nonfiction Writing Chemistry Arabic 1 (MSON) Multidisciplinary Problems Independent P.E. (with Advanced Microeconomics Workshop (MSON)** Chem Study Arabic 2 (MSON) with Computational departmental approval) (MSON)* Creative Writing in the Digital Advanced Chemistry Chinese Methods (MSON) African History: Panoramas, Age (MSON)* Physics Chinese 1: Elementary Independent Study: Special Wellness Portraits, Perspectives Etymology of Scientific Terms Physics with Algebra Chinese Topics in Computer Science Grades 9–12, grouped by The American Food System: (MSON)* Physics A Chinese 2: Elementary grade Past, Present, Future Exploration of Ethics through Advanced Physics B Chinese Performing Arts (MSON)* Literature Accelerated Physics C: Chinese 3: Intermediate Chorus and Band Are We Rome? (MSON)** Literature and Theories of Mechanics Chinese Maret Singers *fall semester Building Utopia (MSON)* Knowledge Science Electives Chinese 4: Advanced Concert Band/Strings **spring semeste Civil Liberties Lovers, Warriors, Poets, & Advanced Environmental Intermediate Chinese Film and Theatre Diversity in a Global Thinkers of the Ancient Science Chinese 5 (MSON) Film Production Comparative Perspective Mediterranean Advanced Topics in Chemistry French Basic Acting Technique (MSON)* Native American Literature (MSON)** French 3 Introduction to Technical Economics (MSON)** French 4 Theatre