Curriculum

The Upper School curriculum is both traditional and far-reaching, allowing students to experience a grounding in the traditional liberal arts, while having the freedom to pursue academic and artistic passions both in and out of the traditional classroom. While exceptionally rigorous—as we need to prepare students to be successful at the finest colleges and universities in the nation and beyond—the curriculum is also forgiving; allowing students to chart any number of independent paths through our requirements. As they progress, students can choose to include Honors, AP, or post-AP advanced classes (such as Linear Algebra and proofs), in their daily schedule. In addition to those choices, the vast majority of Country Day students vastly exceed the required number of art classes, and that is both the cause and effect of our exceptional fine arts programs. It is this balance that creates the ability to prioritize, think critically, and have the requisite flexibility to succeed academically. On the whole, our rigorous adherence to the Liberal Arts creates a graduate who is excited about learning, enthusiastic about their Upper School experience, and prepared to take on any and all challenges that are on the horizon.