Guidance and College Counseling

In order to be granted a diploma by St. Johnsbury Academy, a student must complete four years of study, and accumulate 26 credits.

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COURSE	CREDITS
Senior Capstone	1 credit
English	4 credits
Science	3 credits
Mathematics	3 credits
Social Studies	3 credits
Physical Education	2 credits
Health	1 credit
Electives	9 credit

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Underclassmen must take eight blocks of study for the year. Seniors must take seven.

St. Johnsbury Academy will not accelerate graduation. Students must achieve four calendar years of resident study in a high school in order to qualify for graduation.

 

The Academy is a four-year institution. Students normally progress from the ninth through the twelfth grades and finally to graduation by accumulating credits through successfully passing courses of study. The age of a student does not determine grade placement; the number of credits that the student has accumulated is the determining factor. Students enrolling after grade nine will receive a credit evaluation which will include the specific classes and number of credits needed to meet graduation requirements. At any point in the student’s progression through the Academy, if the student does not accumulate the requisite number of credits to advance to the next class, he will remain in the same class until accumulating enough credits to be promoted to the next class. Some students who fall behind are able to make up missed credits and graduate in four years.

Because we are a comprehensive school, we admit students whose intellectual capacities and abilities span a wide range. We believe that students learn best when the material that they are required to learn is presented in a form and at a degree of difficulty matched to their abilities. In nearly all of our academic departments, students are homogeneously grouped; that is, they are placed in instructional sections with students of similar abilities and academic preparation.

 

All of our academic departments offer courses at four levels of instruction: basic, standard, accelerated, and Advanced Placement. Students who are placed at the basic level have demonstrated a need for instruction in the basic skills required to learn the material of the course. Further, they frequently possess less information than their peers. Students who are placed at the standard level of a course have demonstrated average ability and skills. They possess threshold skills and are sufficiently versed in requisite information to be successful in this college preparatory curriculum.

 

Students who are placed in the accelerated level of a course have demonstrated advanced skills and possess considerably more information than most students. They have also demonstrated the ability to learn more quickly than their peers. Students are placed in various levels of instruction after careful study of standardized tests they have taken, recommendations of teachers and guidance personnel in the schools from which they came to us, and consultations with each Academy department chair. Students are not placed automatically at a given level of instruction in any department simply because they are in that level of instruction in another department. It is quite common at the Academy for students to be placed at different levels of instruction within different departments. Further, it is the aim of the basic courses at the Academy to equip the students to move to standard levels of instruction as soon as possible.

 

Department personnel meet regularly to make sure that students are appropriately placed.

American University

Art Center College of Design

Babson College

Ball State University

Belmont University

Bishops University (CAN)

Boston College 

Bridgewater State University

California State University – Fullerton

Champlain College

Christopher Newport University

Coastal Carolina University

Colby-Sawyer College 

Columbia University

Community College of Vermont 

Concordia University

Dartmouth College 

Delaware Valley University

Drexel University

Eastern Maine Community College

Elon University

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Endicott College

Florida International University 

Framingham State University

Gettysburg College

Husson University

Ibero – México City (MEX)

Imperial College London (UK)

Indiana University Bloomington

Johnson and Wales University – Providence

Keene State College 

La Salle University

Landmark College

Liberty University

Loyola University – Chicago

Loyola University – Maryland

Macalester College

Maine College of Art and Design

McGill University

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

Montana State University

Montserrat College of Art

Mount Holyoke College 

New York University

North Carolina State University

North Dakota State University

Northeastern University 

Norwich University 

Oberlin College

Plymouth State University 

Purdue University 

Reed College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhode Island School of Design

Rivier University 

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rutgers University

Saint Michael’s College

Savannah College of Art and Design

Seattle University

Southern New Hampshire University

St. John’s College

St. Lawrence University 

Suffolk University 

SUNY Binghamton

Syracuse University

Technológico De Monterrey (MEX)

The Culinary Institute of America

Tufts University

University of Amsterdam (NLD)

University of California – Riverside

University of Connecticut

University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign

University of Massachusetts – Amherst 

University of Miami

University of New England

University of New Hampshire 

University of North Carolina Wilmington

University of Rhode Island 

University of the Arts London (UK)

University of Vermont 

University of Washington – Seattle

University of Wisconsin – Madison 

Villanova University

Vermont State University 

Webster University Vienna (AUT)

Wentworth Institute of Technology 

Yale University

St. Johnsbury Academy graduates attend a wide range of colleges and universities each year. This is a representative list of schools SJA graduates have enrolled in over the past five years.

 

American University

Art Institute Chicago

Babson College

Bard College

Baylor University

Bentley University

Berklee College of Music

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brown University

Bucknell University

Business School Lausanne

California College of the Arts

Carnegie Mellon University

Clark University

Clarkson University

Columbia University

Concordia University (Montreal)

Cornell University

Culinary Institute of America

Dartmouth College

Davidson College

Denison University

Dickinson College

Elon University

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

Emory University

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (Los Angeles)

Fashion Institute of Technology

Fordham University

Franklin and Marshall College

George Washington University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Gettysburg College

Hamilton College

Harvard University

Haverford College

Imperial College London

Indiana University at Bloomington 

Johns Hopkins University
Keio University (Japan)

Kent State University

King’s College (London)

Lander University

Lehigh University

Loyola University (New Orleans)

Macalester College

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McGill University

Miami University (Oxford)

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

Mount Holyoke College

New York University

Northeastern University

Oberlin College

Parsons The New School for Design

Pennsylvania State University

Pratt Institute

Princeton University

Providence College

Purdue University

Reed College

Regent’s University (London)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhode Island School of Design

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rutgers University (New Brunswick)

Sarah Lawrence College

Savannah College of Art and Design

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of Visual Arts

Skidmore College

Smith College

St. Lawrence University

St. Olaf College

Syracuse University

Temple University

Trinity College (Dublin)

Tufts University

Union College

U.S. Airforce Academy

University of Arizona

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Irvine

University of California, San Diego

University of Chicago

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Connecticut

University of Florida

University of Illinois at Urbana —   Champaign

University of Iowa

University of Maine

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Montana, Missoula

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of New Hampshire

University of Nottingham (UK)

University of Oregon

University of Redlands

University of Rhode Island

University of Rochester

University of Southern California

University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of Texas Dallas

University of the West of England, Bristol (UK)

University of Vermont

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Vassar College

Villanova University

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Yale University