Cultivate your highest ambitions
The George School Academic Program re-imagines the school day and gives you the freedom and the support to become your most authentic self.
Our academic experience empowers teachers to be bold, creative, and collaborative. It empowers you to choose your own challenges.
George School offers the IB diploma, IB courses, APs, adventurous opportunities for global study, artistic expression, service learning, and more. Step inside our academic community, where our campus (and the world) is your classroom.
THE 7-TERM ACADEMIC YEAR
The George School Academic Program maximizes learning and flexibility with an innovative 7-Term calendar, designed in response to educational neuroscience research. The academic year (late August-early June) is divided into 7 terms, each about 5 weeks. Students take 3 or 4 classes each term and classes meet daily for 75 minutes. Each student charts their own path; no two student schedules are the same.
Term 1 | September
Term 2 | October
Term 3 | November-December
Term 4 | January-February
Term 5 | February-March
Term 6 | April
Term 7 | May-June
Sample Schedules
There are as many paths through George School as there are students to blaze them—there are no typical George School students.
These schedules are emblematic of the various paths a student may take. Many similar—and dissimilar—schedules can be crafted. For example, “doubling up” (taking two courses in a department in a year) can be done in many subjects, both to accelerate and to sample varied topics.
Our goal is to enable students to pursue their interests, prepare for their future, and keep their options open as they navigate their educational journey.
7-Term Calendar at a Glance
2024-2025
Testimonials
Being able to customize my schedule lets me map out a future course plan with my advisor, but the seven-term schedule also allows me to focus on classes one week at a time. I like change, and I like being able to engage with just four classes during the five weeks of each term.
Zachary H.
Class of 2024
We want to encourage students to stay the course; our job is to put wind in their sails and help them understand that it will be okay even if it's hard—the difficulty is where some of the best learning happens. We want every student to reach a point where they're challenged, and that's a different point for each student. Hamilton Davis
Math Department Head
Our daughter has grown in her love of learning and sense of self. Namely, in her general confidence, strength of conviction, developing and employing strategies to manage school/life balance, and more confidence in navigating interpersonal relationships with peers, faculty, and staff. This is due in large part to the fact that it is clear that the Light within her and her own unique version of living the Quaker values is nurtured and celebrated [at George School]. Amy K. P'26
Parent of Abby K. '26
Travel & Engaged Citizenship
Service and experiential learning has been woven into the George School curriculum for 75 years. Students travel around the corner and around the globe to experience cultures, study societal issues, and think about how they can best use their unique strengths in service to their community.
The George School Academic Program
Find your future
- Accelerate in a subject that you love.
- Craft your four years in alignment with your goals and interests.
- Have deep discussions with your peers about the issues affecting the world today.
- Explore what you're curious about.
- Participate in the lived global experience.
- Learn how to think locally and globally.
- Find your future with a curriculum that is rooted in research and that offers you choices, challenges, rigor without rigidity, and a lived global experience.
Chart your own course
- Our team of academic program experts conduct course planning workshops with current students prior to course sign-ups.
- Information about course selection and opportunities to talk with the Registrar or Director of Studies are part of the enrollment process for new students.
- More choices are available for students with this flexible curriculum, which allows them to take extra courses in areas they love and participate fully in campus life.
- Students will have a broad and deep academic foundation that prepares them well for college and life after George School.