Curriculum

With a Pioneer education, you will think critically, speak and write clearly, reason quantitatively, and learn to understand the experiences of others.

Curriculum

English Teacher teaching in her classroom at Pioneer Academy

With a Pioneer education, you will think critically, speak and write clearly, reason quantitatively, and learn to understand the experiences of others.

Pioneer Academy has high academic expectations of its students, and all courses help them to develop the foundation they will need to succeed in further education and their careers.

Our rigorous graduation requirements, which set higher academic expectations than at most comparable high schools, ensure that all students take an appropriate load of college-preparatory courses each year. External exams, which include AP, PSAT, and SAT, recognize students’ academic ability and achievement.

Besides, Pioneer Academy offers some type of extracurricular activities, such as music, academic clubs, and sports. These activities offer opportunities for our students to learn the values of teamwork, individual and group responsibility, physical strength, collaboration, diversity, and a sense of culture and community.

Departments

ENGLISH

The English Department aims to foster creativity in students who read closely, write precisely, collaborate effectively, reflect purposefully, and solve problems ethically.

MATHEMATICS

The mathematics curriculum combines the best of the rich cultural tradition of mathematics with applications to modern problems.

SCIENCE

Science is a distinctive way of learning about the world through observation, inquiry, formulating and testing hypotheses, gathering and analyzing data, and reporting and evaluating findings.

ART & MUSIC

Arts programs at every level strive to impart the fundamental skills necessary for students to solve problems, think critically, engage creatively, and feel a sense of accomplishment...

HEALTH / P.E.

Our overall goal at Pioneer is to introduce students to a wide variety of healthy activities that they can take with them in their post graduate years.

SPANISH

Spanish curriculum description

ELL / ESL

English Language Learning Department was developed to assist students in their journey from low-intermediate proficiency to the proficiency level necessary to succeed in college-prep classes.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

All students should feel comfortable using new technologies, and be confident that they can use information literacy skills to assess the validity of digital information.

Our “One on One” meetings with each student are the heart of each student’s success and motivation at Pioneer as each student represents a whole unique world, and the skills, interests, capabilities, character, personality, and needs of each student.
Ali Bilgin
Upper School Principal
A high school student discussing his applications with Pioneer Academy Director of College Counseling

College Guidance

"Our “One on One” meetings with each student are the heart of each student’s success and motivation at Pioneer as each student represents a whole unique world, and the skills, interests, capabilities, character, personality, and needs of each student are different from those of others. "