Upper School Academics
The Upper School program at Sage Ridge School focuses on preparation for university life and beyond. To help facilitate this idea, college counseling begins in the freshman year for Sage Ridge Upper School students.
The rigorous academic program at Sage Ridge School is rooted in the core academic disciplines of English, History, Mathematics, Science, Language, and the Arts. Students are provided with an extensive complement of honors and Advanced Placement courses.
In addition, Sage Ridge School offers a unique two week mini course period between the first and second semester following December break which allows students to experience and encounter different fields of study. Selections vary each year. Students are also given a chance to experience new venues of learning during the Outdoor Education week, the first week in September. Please visit the Outdoor Education section of the Student Life portion of the website.
Senior Capstone Project
The Senior Capstone Project is designed to give students the opportunity to explore an area of academic, aesthetic, or professional interest to you. Over the course of their academic career at Sage Ridge, students have been challenged by their teachers and peers in many ways. As a budding scholar, students have learned and honed abundant skills essential to research, thoughtful writing, cooperative learning, civic engagement, information technology and more. Outside class, student have been maturing into young adults, demonstrating leadership skills and making choices about your own life. The Capstone Project is the next logical step in this process—it requires students to draw on their academic and extracurricular experiences.
The core idea behind the Capstone Project is creation. Students take the sum of their Sage Ridge experience—skills, knowledge, and abilities—and become something more by embarking on a dynamically creative process. In practical terms, this means that students work to make an original and thoughtful contribution to their own field of interest.
The Capstone Project can take any of the following forms:
- An original piece of academic research in an approved field.
- A scientific investigation.
- Fiction or creative writing.
- An original artistic project or production.
- Thoughtful and probing journalistic investigation.
Senior Internship
The Senior Internship is designed to help prepare students for the transition from high school to the world of higher education. The students come face to face with the realities of reporting to a supervisor, efficiently managing their time, and being productive in the work force while experiencing the increase in freedom and responsibility of life outside of Sage Ridge School during their month long senior internship.