FACULTY 52 members45 with advanced degrees4 college counselors9:1 student/faculty ratio CLASS SIZES FALL 2019 Grade 9 – 100Grade 10 – 93Grade 11 – 82Grade 12 – 102

CALENDARTwo 18-week semesters, each divided into two 9-week quarters. Block schedule: 80-minute classes in two-day rotation

GRADING INFORMATION

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS Academic Curriculum: • English – 4 credits• Math – 4 credits• History – 3 credits• Science – 3 credits• World Language – 3 credits• Fine and Performing Arts –

1.5 credits• Health and PE – 1 credit

Personal Challenge: Self-designed, self-conducted project defended before faculty committee and presented to school community

Community Service: Individual volunteer project culminating in written reflection

May Term: A one-week experiential education course; new courses offered every year

NATIONAL MERIT RECOGNITIONClass of 2020 – 19%Class of 2019 – 22%Class of 2018 – 20%Class of 2017 – 25%Class of 2016– 29%

Introductory College Prep:

College Prep with pre-req:

Honors Courses:

AP and Post-AP Courses:

“Pass” is given no weight but is computed in credits earned. Full course list by weight is available at:

7hills.org/weighting

WEIGHTED GRADES ON 4.0 SCALE

no weight

additional +.25 weight

additional +.5 weight

additional +1.0 weight

D

SEVEN HILLS HIGHLIGHTS• All students take an advanced college preparatory curriculum• Financial Aid awarded to 31% of Upper School students• Students come from 68 ZIP codes• Student body includes 32% students of color• Flexible Credit – Alternative ways of earning credit through online, college or self-designed and mentored projects• Study Abroad – Exchange/home-stay experiences in China, France, Spain, and Greece and Italy• Athletics: 85% of students play a team sport• Arts: 80% of the Class of 2019 took arts courses beyond our requirements

ACADEMIC RIGOR• Admission to Honors and AP courses is selective and depends on past performance and departmental approval. Due to the rigor of those courses, students are counseled to limit the number they take. • All AP students are expected to take the AP exam.• Post-AP electives – Multivariable Calculus, French V Honors.

The Seven Hills School - Class of 2020EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGThis program helps students develop self-awareness of where their interests lie, facilitates exploration of those interests, and provides students with pertinent real-world experiences through job shadows, internships, community service, college course work, and other relevant activities. Students may elect to earn concentrations in such fields as Community Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, Global Citizenship, Political Engagement, The Arts, Technology and Innovation, Engineering and Design, Integrated Wellness, or Social Justice.

MAY TERM INTENSIVESAfter spring exams, when all regular classes are finished, our ninth-, tenth-, and eleventh-graders choose a one-week experiential education course to finish the year. Some examples: furniture design and construction, food production and processing, medical careers, architecture and murals, and many more.

SAT & ACT SCORES FOR 2019 & 2020

1-15 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36

28-35 EnglishMath

ReadingScience

25-32 27-35

25-34 27-33

avg. 31.5avg. 28.4

avg. 31avg. 29.4

avg. 30

CLASS OF 2020 MIDDLE 50% OF ACT SCORES:

ACT AVERAGES - 2019 & 2020:

Math

Science

Composite

1-15 16-19 20-23 24-27 28-32 33-36

2020: 28.4

2020: 29.4

2020: 30

21NationalOhio

NationalOhio

English2020: 31.5

NationalOhioSeven HillsNationalOhioSeven Hills

20.720.4

28.8

20.219.3

30.620.5

21.228.4

Reading2020: 31

NationalOhio

21.320.8

30.3

20.320.8

29.6

SAT SUBJECT TESTS AVG Math IMath IIChemistry

Molecular Biology Environmental BiologyPhysicsU.S. HistoryWorld HistoryFrenchSpanishLatinLiteratureAvg Subject Test Score

Composite

200 300 400 500 600 700 800

CLASS OF 2020 MIDDLE 50% OF SAT SCORES:

Combined: 1290-1500; average 1394

Latest scores available as of October 2019

Latest scores available as of November 2019

Verbal Math

650-740 avg. 695 640-760 avg. 699

Seven Hills

Seven Hills

Seven Hills

200 300 400 500 600 700 800

SAT AVERAGES - 2019 & 2020:

Verbal

Math

531Ohio 550

Ohio 548528

National

687 2020: 695Seven Hills

National

700 2020: 699Seven Hills

701

731

670

755

710

660

730

665

565

670

715

680

704

American University - 2American University of Paris - 1Amherst College - 1Babson College - 1Barnard College - 1Belmont University - 3Beloit College - 1Bentley University - 1Boston College - 1Boston University - 4Bowdoin College - 2Brandeis University - 1Bryn Mawr College - 1Bucknell University - 1Butler University - 1California Institute of Technology - 1California Institute of the Arts - 1Carleton College - 4Carnegie Mellon University - 2Case Western Reserve University - 6Catholic University of America - 1Claremont McKenna College - 1College of Charleston - 2The Citadel - 1Colby College - 3Colgate University - 1College of Wooster - 4Colorado College - 2Colorado State University - 2 Columbus College of Art and Design - 1Columbia College Chicago - 1Columbia University - 6Cornell University - 7Dartmouth College - 1Davidson College - 2University of Dayton - 4Denison University - 4

DePaul University - 6Dickinson College - 2Drexel University - 2Duke University - 6Earlham College - 3Eckerd College - 1Elon University - 4Emerson College - 1Emory University - 3Florida Gulf Coast University - 1Florida State University - 1Franciscan University - 1Franklin & Marshall College - 1George Washington University - 4Georgetown College - 1Gettysburg College - 1Hamilton College - 1Hampshire College - 1Hanover College - 1Harvard University - 4Haverford College - 2Hillsdale College - 1Indiana University - 8Johns Hopkins University - 2Kenyon College - 5Lafayette College - 1Lake Forest College - 1Loyola University Chicago - 6Lynn University - 1Marquette University - 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1Miami University - 20Michigan State University - 1Michigan Technological University - 1Middlebury College - 1Muskingum University - 2

New York University - 5Northeastern University - 2Northern Kentucky University - 3Northwestern University - 5Occidental College - 1Ohio Northern University - 1Ohio University - 2Ohio State University - 25Otterbein University - 1Pratt Institute - 1Princeton University - 3Purdue University - 9

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 1Rhode Island School of Design - 1Rhodes College - 1Rice University - 2Roanoke College - 1Rochester Institute of Technology - 4Saint Louis University - 1Sarah Lawrence College - 1Savannah College of Art and Design - 3School of Visual Arts - 1Southern Methodist University - 2Spelman College - 1St. Lawrence University - 1Syracuse University - 4The New School - 1

Thomas More College - 4Tufts University - 5Tulane University - 3Tuskegee University - 1Union College - 1University of Akron - 2University of Alabama - 1University of Arizona - 3University of British Columbia (Canada) - 1University of California, Berkeley - 1

University of California, San Diego -1University of Chicago - 6University of Cincinnati - 34University of Colorado - 2University of Dayton - 6University of Denver - 1University of Illinois - 3University of Kentucky - 8University of Maryland -1University of Miami - 2University of Michigan - 7University of Missouri - 2University of Notre Dame - 1University of Pennsylvania - 2University of Pittsburgh - 4University of Richmond - 3University of Rochester - 3University of South Carolina - 7

University of Southern California - 2University of Texas, Austin - 2University of Texas, Dallas - 1University of Toledo - 1University of Toronto -1University of Adelaide (Australia) - 1University of St. Andrews (Scotland) - 2University of Vermont - 1University of Virginia - 1

University of Washington - 1University of Wisconsin - 1Vanderbilt University - 9Virginia Commonwealth University - 1Virginia Polytechnic Institute - 1Wake Forest University - 2Washington College - 1Washington University in St. Louis - 11Washington & Lee University - 1Wellesley College - 2Williams College - 1Wilmington College - 1Wittenberg University - 3Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 1Xavier University - 1Yale University - 5Yeshiva University - 2

FIVE-YEAR MATRICULATION LIST (2015-2019)

ADVANCED PLACEMENT TESTS (as of July 2019)147 students took a total of 363 AP tests; 98% scored 3 or higher; 79% scored 4’s and 5’s

TEST %3 and higher AVG score 5 4 3 2 1 Total Biology Calculus ABCalculus BC(AB subscore)ChemistryComp Sci AEnglish LangEnglish LitEuropean HistFrench Lang Latin Physics C (E&M) Physics C (Mech) Spanish Lang Spanish LitUS History Total # Total %

100%100%100%100%85.7%100%100%94%

100%100%100%76.5%94%

100%100%100%

4.24.34.44.63.64.54.33.94.23.93.73.53.955

4.3

11131416511251210115551

15150 41%

20145554

2023980480013

138 38%

5442829942243006

64 18%

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2%

00000000000110001

<.03%

363123232117544723113171751

34363

Public - 41%Private - 59%

59%

41%In state-29%

Out of state - 71%

29%

71%

Midwest - 48%East - 27%South - 18%West - 6%International - 1%

ADVANCED PLACEMENT SCHOLARS: 26 AP Scholars: average score 3.83

16 AP Scholars with Honor: average score 4.15

46 AP Scholars with Distinction: average score 4.38

7 National AP Scholars: average score 4.59

#1 COLLEGE PREP PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL IN OHIO 2020

#1 PRIVATE K-12 SCHOOL

IN CINCINNATI AREA 2020

STAFF

Susan Marrs 513.728.2463Director of College Counseling

Alex Catalan 513.728.2461Assistant Director of College Counseling

Julie DiRoma 513.728.2479College Counselor

Beth Driehaus 513.728.2467College Counselor

Christopher GartenHead of School

Matthew Bolton, Ph.D.Head of Upper School

Nick Francis 513.728.2465Director of Experiential Learning

AccreditationNational Association of Independent SchoolsIndependent Schools Association of the Central StatesOhio Association of Independent SchoolsState of OhioCEEB/ACT 361-005

Disclosure PolicyThe Seven Hills College Counseling Office will answer questions posed by colleges regarding major disciplinary action in secondary school reports, midyear reports, and final school reports. Students are expected to disclose such information to the colleges as well.

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HILLSDALE CAMPUS

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MEAN ADVANCED PLACEMENT SCORES

EnglishIntroduction to Writing and GenreBritish Literature; Honors British LiteratureAmerican Literature; Honors American LiteratureAP English Language and CompositionMemoir and Social JusticeAP English Literature and CompositionCreative WritingJournalismSpeech

MathematicsAlgebra IGeometry; Geometry HonorsAlgebra II; Algebra II HonorsProbability and Statistics; Probability and Statistics HonorsPre-Calculus; Pre-Calculus HonorsCalculus; AP Calculus AB; AP Calculus BC

Multivariable Calculus (Post AP)

HistoryWorld History IWorld History IIAP European HistoryU.S. History and Government; AP U.S. History Global Issues Since 1945 HonorsEnvironmental Studies

One-semester Electives:EconomicsPostmodern America Since 1968Nazi Germany and the Holocaust The Cold War in Europe

ScienceBiology; Biology HonorsChemistry; Chemistry HonorsPhysics; Physics HonorsAnatomy and PhysiologyEnvironmental Studies

AP BiologyAP ChemistryAP Physics C

One-semester Electives:PsychologyBiotechnologyMacro EngineeringMicro Engineering

Computer Science and TechnologyProgramming IProgramming II Computer EngineeringAP Computer Science A

ChineseChinese I HonorsChinese II HonorsChinese III HonorsChinese IV HonorsAP Chinese Language and Culture

FrenchFrench II; French II HonorsFrench III; French III HonorsFrench IV

AP French Language and CultureFrench V Honors

LatinLatin II HonorsLatin III HonorsLatin IV HonorsAP Latin

SpanishSpanish ASpanish BSpanish CSpanish ISpanish II; Spanish II HonorsSpanish III; Spanish III HonorsSpanish IVSpanish V HonorsAP Spanish Language and Culture

Vocal MusicConcert ChorusChamber Ensemble

Instrumental MusicContemporary EnsembleSymphonic Ensemble

TheaterTheater IImprovisationTechnical TheaterAdvanced Acting and Directing

Visual ArtsGeneral ArtDrawingPaintingCeramicsGraphic DesignSculptureDigital ImagingFilm and AnimationArt History

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Experiential Learning: Entrepreneurship

PE & HealthPhysical EducationHealth

2019 CURRICULUM