With
its dual commitment to high academic standards and individual
needs, The Good Hope School Upper School (Grades 9 through
12) provides a balance between structure and innovation,
academic excellence, social growth and individual fulfillment.
Our unique college preparatory program challenges and encourages
students through a variety of rigorous academic and extra
curricular programs designed to cultivate curiosity, creativity,
and integrity.
Our college-bound students are supported by a full-time
college counselor who in addition to providing individual
guidance for students and their families coordinates internships
to help students focus their interests, creates opportunities
for students to shadow professionals, and offers skill building
workshops in successful interview strategies, personal finance,
and preparation for college life.
Honors and advanced placement courses, a wide variety of
clubs and elective activities, and athletics at the club,
junior varsity and varsity levels provide our students with
the opportunity for exceptionally well-rounded résumé.
The result: in the last decade 100 percent of Good Hope
School graduates have gone on the college or university.
The Upper School offers:
Academics
1.
All classes at The Good Hope School are taught at the college
preparatory level.
2. Honors classes are available in mathematics, French,
Spanish, and Physics.
3. Advanced Placement (AP) classes are offered in art, French,
Spanish, English literature, U. S. history, and calculus.
Hallmarks
1. The Independent Project Program for seniors allows students
to focus on a passion for the entire year. Working with
internal and external mentors, students challenge their
curiosity as they immerse themselves in a subject of personal
interest. A paper and presentation on their topic of interest
finish off the year.
2. The annual Intel-affiliated Science Fair allows students
to develop an idea, research and organize data, make formal
presentations, and to compete at the national level with
their peers.
Clubs
and Activities
1. Jazz Band is available to student musicians, exposing
them to the works and techniques of local artists.
2. The Good Hope School Interact is one of the oldest Rotary
International-affiliated clubs in the Virgin Islands. Club
members raise money during the school year to help support
an HIV/AIDS orphanage in Uganda as part of their mission
to support global understanding and good will.
3. Student Government is made up of students from all grades.
Members monitor student concerns, and organize field days
which promote school spirit and cooperation within The Good
Hope School community.
4. Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) trains students
in business ethics and best practices, polishes interviewing
skills, and develops computer proficiencies. Members take
part in an annual inter-island competition with other FBLA
clubs.
5. Quiz Bowl/Science Bowl prepares team members for inter-school,
and two inter-island competitions held in St. Thomas that
test student knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.
6. Poetry Club encourages budding and accomplished wordsmiths
and bards, explores the work of national and local poets,
and hosts a coffee house for students to share their work.
7. The Good Hope School Year Book staff compiles and edits
the annual Good Hope School yearbook and is open to both
Middle School and Upper School students.
Chapters
National Honor Society
National Art Honor Society
Good
Works at Good Hope
All students participate in a 15 hour per year community
service project in which they are encouraged to “find
a need and fill a need”. The first of such projects,
the annual fall beach clean-up kicks off the school year.
Athletics
Junior Varsity and Varsity Volleyball
Varsity Soccer
Basketball
Softball – Girls
Tennis
Swimming
Cross Country running
Golf
