Academic Opportunities

• Honors Courses: Do you feel bored in standard-level courses? Honors courses are a great way to access higher-level work. Challenging yourself leads to better critical thinking skills, and these courses receive slightly higher weighting in your GPA.
• Advanced Placement Courses: AP Courses are the highest-rigor courses we offer in our buildings. They are taught at a college-level and are the best preparation we can provide for college success within our walls. AP courses have substantial weight added when your GPA is calculated. Large colleges and universities such as UGA, Georgia State, and Georgia Tech want to see these courses on your transcript to consider you for admission. Our AP teachers are all-stars and go out of their way to make sure that while you take these difficult courses you are provided with extensive support.
• Dual Enrollment: Interested in earning college credit that also takes care of graduation requirements? Dual enrollment through the state of Georgia's Dual Enrollment program may be perfect for you. Most of our Dual Enrollment students attend Lanier Tech, University of North Georgia, or Georgia Gwinnett College. See Ms. Sharp to begin the process, and click here for more information.
• Career, Technical, Agriculture Education: The Barrow County School System is committed to offering extensive CTAE opportunities. Apalachee offers several career pathways within our building, and the Sims Academy of Innovation and Technology serves both high schools with even more programs to provide exposure to many different career opportunities. See the form below to see which pathways we offer and their location.