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Etymology
Greek and Latin roots taught systematically across all four years. The single highest-yield reading and SAT-vocabulary intervention available.
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The academic program
Adaptive, self-paced, standards-aligned — taught by real educators.
Agape's curriculum is adaptive, self-paced, and standards-aligned — College Board AP-approved and NCAA-cleared. The result is the consistency of a national curriculum with the accountability of a small school.
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The curricular spine
The credit-bearing core.
Agape's academic program is adaptive, self-paced, and standards-aligned. Every course of record includes video instruction, guided notes, interactive practice, mastery-based assessment, and final examination — calibrated so each student moves at the pace that's right for them.
Around that program, Agape's educators provide what technology alone cannot:
- Timely grading. All teacher-graded coursework is completed and returned in a timely manner, so students always know where they stand.
- Direct intervention for readers in every cohort and the math student who needs more, and any student a TOR flags for academic concern.
Curriculum credentials
- College Board AP-approved
- NCAA-cleared (transcripts accepted)
- Quality Matters certified
- Adaptive remediation built in
- Full secondary catalog: ELA, math, science, social studies, world languages, electives, AP, CTE
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Required courses
The full college-preparatory load — every grade, every year.
| Department | Grades 9–10 | Grades 11–12 | Honors / AP |
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| English | English I, English II | American Lit · British Lit | AP Language · AP Literature |
| Mathematics | Algebra I · Geometry | Algebra II · Pre-Calculus · Statistics | AP Calculus AB / BC · AP Statistics |
| Science | Biology · Chemistry | Physics · Anatomy & Physiology · Earth/Space | AP Biology · AP Chemistry · AP Physics |
| Social Studies | World History · U.S. History | U.S. Government · Economics | AP U.S. History · AP Government · AP Macro |
| World Languages | Spanish I · Spanish II | Spanish III · Spanish IV | AP Spanish · French · German (electives) |
| Health & PE | Health · Physical Education | Personal Fitness | — |
| Fine Arts | Art Appreciation · Music Appreciation | Digital Photography · Theatre | AP Art & Design |
| CTE / Tech | Computer Applications · Digital Citizenship | IT Fundamentals · Programming I | AP Computer Science Principles |
Course selection is finalized with each student's College & Career Counselor in the spring of grade 9 to align with university admissions targets. AP courses follow College Board syllabi and culminate in May AP examinations administered through approved testing partners.
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The "missing curriculum"
Eight courses public schools rarely teach. We require them.
A well-prepared graduate doesn't just know the content — she knows how to learn, how to plan, how to read at speed, how to write tightly, how to manage a deadline, and how to prepare for the tests that decide where she goes. These skills are not optional add-ons. They are the difference between a student who is admitted to college and a student who is prepared for college.
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Logic
Formal and informal logic — argument structure, fallacies, propositional reasoning. The foundation of every other discipline.
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Academic Writing
Sentence-level craft, paragraph architecture, source integration, and revision discipline. Taught as a year-long course, not a unit.
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Study Skills
Spaced repetition, retrieval practice, interleaving, the testing effect — the evidence-based learning techniques students are usually expected to figure out alone.
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Test-Taking Strategy
Item analysis, time-boxing, elimination strategy, and the meta-cognitive playbook for the SAT, ACT, AP exams, and college coursework.
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Executive Function
Planning, prioritization, calendar management, and the working-memory scaffolds that make self-paced learning succeed.
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Metacognition
Thinking about thinking — accurate self-assessment, uncertainty calibration, and learning-to-learn as a teachable discipline.
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Financial Literacy
Budgeting, credit, taxes, and the financial decisions every adult faces. Required, not elective.
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Faith electives
Substantive engagement with the questions that shape a life.
Agape's faith electives are taught with the same academic seriousness as any other course in the school. Students elect into them; faith is offered, not imposed.
- World Religions — comparative study of the major religious traditions: history, texts, practices, and philosophical positions.
- Ethics — moral philosophy from Aristotle to Rawls, applied to contemporary questions in business, medicine, technology, and citizenship.
- Servant Leadership — a course in leading from service rather than position, drawing on classical and contemporary leadership literature.
- Statement of Faith — for students choosing to articulate their own theological commitments, a writing-intensive seminar in faithful reasoning and personal conviction.
Students of every tradition — Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, secular, and seeking — are welcome in every elective. Instructors do not catechize.
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The technology layer
An integrated educational ecosystem.
Every Agape student logs in once through the school's single sign-on portal and accesses every learning tool from a single dashboard. No passwords to remember. No accounts to create. No platform fatigue.
| Category | Role in the program |
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| Credit-bearing core | Adaptive, standards-aligned curriculum across every course, grade, and transcript line |
| Adaptive literacy | Daily nonfiction reading auto-calibrated to each student's exact Lexile level; ESSA-rated literacy program for grades 6–12 |
| AP & college test preparation | Best-in-class AP, SAT, and ACT preparation with detailed item-level analytics |
| Supplemental tutoring | Free comprehensive tutoring across every subject; aligned with the official College Board prep ecosystem |
| College & career planning | College list management, application tracking, scholarship search, career pathways, and work-based learning |
| Dual college credit pathways | Transferable college coursework through accredited university partnerships during high school |
| Literature, news, and current events | Calibrated reading material across literature, social studies, and science — built into the daily curriculum |
| Interactive instruction tools | Self-paced lessons, embedded checks for understanding, video discussion, and paperless document workflow |
| Life skills modules | Financial literacy, mental health and wellbeing, and digital citizenship |
| World languages & computer science | Reinforcement and elective expansion across world languages and four years of computer science |
| Creative tools | Student creative work, presentations, and project artifacts |
The 24/7 AI tutor
Every student has access to a school-built AI tutor through the student portal — available any hour, calibrated to Agape's curriculum, with no access to student grades or personal information. The tutor is for academic questions, not assessment. Sensitive topics are routed to human staff. The tool augments, never replaces, the named teacher of record.