The Clearview Regional School District has released its program of studies for the incoming school year as middle- and high-school students select classes for 2023-’24.
The program includes a description of each course, credits it earns, course requirements and which grades can take it.
“The new program (of studies) goes into effect on Sept. 1,” said School Superintendent John Horchak III. “We do it each and every year so that it is released annually, though we have been doing it electronically for 20 years now. We release it now since students are currently picking their classes for next year.”
Along with what courses can be taken, the program of studies offers the grading scale for the district, which includes the minimum grade point average; opportunities to acquire college credits; and academic support, among others.
New to the program are classes designed to help students better prepare for college, which Horchak said have proven popular with students. They include AP Pre-Calculus; Foundations in Dramatics/Theater; Digital Music/Composition; Guitar Seminar; and EntreX: Entrepreneurship, a dual credit class with the University of Delaware.
There are also new dual credit courses that, when completed successfully. will earn students’ college credit, among them AP Computer Science, Forensics and AP Physics C.
The program of studies will see updates to the course sequencing for science classes. Biology will now be taught in the ninth grade, while physics, physical science and a science from a choice of electives will now be available in 11th grade.
Chemistry will still be taught to 10th graders, while conceptual physics and the piano seminar will be deleted from the program.
