School Profile

SCHOOL PROFILE About Brentwood The Brentwood Curriculum Brentwood Academics Brentwood provides a modern, West Coast learning Brentwood is very proud of our truly tripartite Our senior students graduate with a British Columbia experience for globally minded students who curriculum that celebrates student success in Grade 12 Secondary School Diploma and thus must embrace the School’s values of Grit and Joy. We are a academics, the arts, and in athletics. While many meet specific graduation requirements in Grades 10, progressive, co-educational boarding school for schools boast offerings in these three areas, 11, and 12. To challenge our students beyond the Grades 9 to 12 located on Vancouver Island, British Brentwood is unique in that the student’s experience extent of this set of provincial requirements, we Columbia, Canada. is genuinely balanced across them: deliver the vast majority of our classes at an honours At Brentwood, student choice is central to our culture • Students attend academic classes during the first level. In addition, Brentwood proudly offers a wide and a deciding factor in who attends the School. This half of the day, SIX days a week, Monday to variety of Advanced Placement courses to challenge results in a warm, friendly, and passionate Saturday. our senior students. While we do not explicitly community of students from nearly 40 countries • Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons: ALL of restrict the number of AP courses students can take: around the world who gain the independence and our students are committed to at least two hours of • It is rare for any students below Grade 11 to take skills necessary to succeed in their post-secondary fine arts―although many students will take an AP course. studies. At the same time, a significant majority of additional fine arts in the four-hour block―taking • Grade 11 students are limited to how many they students are Canadian. This means Brentwood offers advantage of our state-of-the-art facilities in the can take due to provincial course requirements for students a unique Canadian boarding experience performing, visual, and technical arts. graduation. wherein our students enjoy the best of both worlds: a • Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons: ALL of • There is no limit placed on Grade 12 students traditional boarding experience that draws from the our students participate in our athletics program in beyond the provincial course requirement of best domestic and international students. a wide variety of individual and team sports. English Studies 12. Academic Requirements: In Grades 9 to 11 the academic load is SIX classes, while in Grade 12 it is FIVE (Mandatory Classes/Electives): Grade 9 Grade 11 Grade 12 • English • English (students can elect to take AP English Language & Composition • English • 21st Century Studies concurrently) • Four or Five electives from Senior • Mathematics • Pre-Calculus 11 or Foundations of Mathematics 12 Sciences, Senior Social Studies, and • Science (biology, chemistry, earth science, physics) • A Senior Science Electives • Second Language (French, Mandarin, or Spanish) • A Senior Social Studies • Social Studies • Two electives from Senior Sciences, Senior Social Studies, and Electives Grade 10 Senior Sciences: AP Biology 11 or Life Sciences 11, AP Biology 12 or Anatomy & Physiology 12, AP Chemistry 11 or • English Chemistry 11, AP Chemistry 12 or Chemistry 12, Geology 12, AP Physics 11 or Physics 11, AP Physics 12 or Physics 12 • Mathematics Senior Social Studies: 20th Century World History, BC First Peoples, Comparative Cultures, Human Geography, Law Studies, • Science (biology, chemistry, earth science, physics) Physical Geography, Political Studies, Social Justice • Social Studies Electives: Advanced Topics in Mathematics, AP Art History, AP Calculus AB or Calculus 12, AP Comparative Government & • Two electives from: Applied Coding Explorations 11, Politics, AP Computer Science Principles, Entrepreneurship 12, AP Environmental Science, Financial Accounting 12, Beginner’s Mandarin, Beginner’s Spanish, Coding Robotic Foundations of Mathematics 12, French 12, AP French Language, AP Human Geography, Literary Studies 12 or AP English Applications 11, Design 11, French 10, Introduction to Literature & Composition, AP Macroeconomics, Mandarin 12, AP Microeconomics, AP Music Theory, Pre-Calculus 12, AP Business 11, Mandarin 10, Science & Ethics 11, AP Psychology, AP Research, Spanish 12, AP Spanish Language, AP Studio Art, AP United States History Seminar, any suitable Senior elective Testing Grading Scale Grade Distribution • In May 2019, 192 students wrote 301 AP exams (writing AP Grade Letter Grade We do NOT Rank students at Brentwood. To put students’ exams was optional for those in AP courses). (%) Grade Points academic averages into context, below is the Mean Final Grade • 64% of scores were 3 or higher, 33% were 4 or 5. 86-100 A 4 Distribution for our graduating classes over the past five years: AP • AP Scholars = 27: with Honor = 8, with Distinction = 9, 80-85 B+ 3.5 Grade Average Range Students in Range National AP Scholars = 3. Recipients of the AP International 73-79 B 3 Diploma = 2, AP Capstone Diploma = 3. >95% 4.5% 67-72 C+ 2.5 90-94.9% 16.0% • No formal SAT preparation is provided in the academic 60-66 C 2 85-89.9% 25.6% curriculum. Only students bound for U.S. colleges write the 50-59 C- 1 80-84.9% 24.3% SAT, and preparation is completed independently. <50 F 0 75-79.9% 15.7% SAT • Among the students who sat the SAT in 2019, their mean All Grades and Grade Point 70-74.9% 10.0% scores by section were: Evidence-Based Reading & Averages on Brentwood transcripts 65-69.9% 2.7% Writing = 625, Math = 628. are always UNWEIGHTED. <65% 1.3% Graduates of the Last Five Years: University Offers Accepted, Offers Declined Canada Red Deer College University of Washington Ohio Wesleyan University Imperial College London University of Regina Whitman College Orange Coast College University of Kent Alberta College of Art & Design Sheridan College Willamette University Otis College of Art & Design Lancaster University Acadia University St. Thomas University American University Pace University University of Leeds University of Alberta University of Toronto, Mississauga Amherst University Pacific Lutheran University University of Liverpool University of British Columbia, Trent University Barnard College Pennsylvania State University London Metropolitan University Okanagan Trinity Western University Bates College University of Portland University of Manchester University of British Columbia, Brigham Young University, Idaho University of Puget Sound Newcastle University Vancouver United States Butler University Quinnipiac University University of Nottingham Bishop’s University University of California, Irvine Randolph Academy Oxford Brookes University Brock University University of Arizona University of California, Riverside University of Redlands University of Plymouth University of Calgary Arizona State University University of California, Santa Barbara Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Queen Mary, University of London Camosun College Babson College University of California, Santa Cruz University of Rhode Island Queen’s University Belfast Canadian National Institute of Health Barry University California Institute of the Arts Rhode Island School of Design University of Reading Capilano University Bentley University California Polytechnic State University, University of Richmond University of Sheffield Carleton University Boston College Pomona St. Lawrence University School of Oriental and African Studies, Concordia University Boston University California Polytechnic State University, St. Mary's College of California University of London Corpus Christi College Brigham Young University San Luis Obispo University of San Francisco University of Southampton Dalhousie University Bucknell University Carnegie Mellon University Seattle University University of Surrey Emily Carr University of Art & Design University of California, Berkeley Colgate University Seattle Pacific University University of the Arts London, London University of Guelph University of California, Davis University of Colorado, Colorado Seton Hall University College of Fashion University of King's College (NS) University of California, Los Angeles Springs Smith College Kwantlen Polytechnic University University of California, San Diego University of Colorado, Denver Spelman College International Langara College Chapman University Concordia University Irvine State University of New York, Stony University of Lethbridge Claremont McKenna College University of Amsterdam, The Connecticut College Brook MacEwan University University of Colorado, Boulder Netherlands Davidson University Syracuse University McGill University Columbia College Chicago Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico University of Delaware Temple University McMaster University Dartmouth College Ashesi University, Ghana Mount Royal University University of Denver DePaul University Trinity College (TX) Bond University, Australia University of New Brunswick Drew University Dickinson College Union College Erasmus University, Rotterdam School University of Northern British The George Washington University Dominican University University of Utah of Business, The Netherlands Columbia Georgetown University Drexel University Vassar College ESCP Europe, France University of Ottawa Georgia Institute of Technology Duke University Villanova University Glion Institute of Higher Education, Queen's University Hamilton College Emerson College

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