international baccalaureate

• Legacy of Excellence- 33 years as the ORIGINAL IB World School at MDCPS

• Diploma Passing rate above the World Average

• IB tracks that include a Bilingual option and 10 STEAM-based options

• Magnet students enjoy pure magnet classes while still able to take academy electives outside of the magnet

• Participate in all the on-campus activities and athletics of a comprehensive high school

• Diploma Programme (DP) is a rigorous pre-university course of study designed for students in the 16 to 19 age range. It is a broad-based two-year course that aims to encourage students to be knowledgeable and inquiring, but also caring and compassionate. There is a strong emphasis on encouraging students to develop intercultural understanding, open-mindedness, and the attitudes necessary for them to respect and evaluate a range of points of view.

• The course is presented as six academic areas enclosing a central core. Students study two modern languages (or a modern language and a classical language), a humanities or social science subject, an experimental science, mathematics and one of the creative arts. Instead of an arts subject, students can choose two subjects from another area. It is this comprehensive range of subjects that makes the Diploma Programme a demanding course of study designed to prepare students effectively for university entrance. In each of the academic areas students have flexibility in making their choices, which means they can choose subjects that particularly interest them and that they may wish to study further at university.

• Normally, three subjects (and not more than four) are taken at higher level (HL), and the others are taken at standard level (SL). The IB recommends 240 teaching hours for HL subjects and 150 hours for SL. Subjects at HL are studied in greater depth and breadth than at SL.

• In addition, three core elements—the extended essay, theory of knowledge and creativity, activity, service—are compulsory and central to the philosophy of the programme.

• Through collaboration, we create a safe learning environment that nurtures success within an interactive and engaging setting, providing for all the individual needs of our diverse student population. We believe in developing students’ self-esteem and confidence through academic excellence with essential knowledge and skills to become high school graduates and integral members of both our community and the global environment, encouraging a cooperative and multicultural society for all.

• Gables IB seeks to meet this goal by nurturing inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who will help create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

• Engage students in a challenging curriculum that maintains a consistent focus of collaborative problem-solving while providing many opportunities for students to pursue independent experiential learning.

• Encourage students to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

• Engage students in activities that bring in multiple perspectives of global issues and challenges them to create their own method for evaluating and validating this new knowledge.

Group 1: Language A – Native Language

• • English Language and Literature HL

  • Spanish Language and Literature HL

Group 2: Language B – Second Language

• • Spanish B SL/HL

  • Italian B SL/HL

  • French B SL/HL

Group 3: Individuals & Society

• • History HL/SL: History of the Americas

Group 4: Experimental Sciences

• Biology SL/HL

• Chemistry SL

• Physics SL/HL

Group 5: Mathematics

• Applications and Interpretations (AI) SL

• Analysis and Appreciation (AA) SL/HL

Group 6: The Arts

• Business and Management SL/HL

• Computer Science SL/HL

• Psychology SL/HL

• Theatre SL/HL

• Visual Arts SL/HL

• Sports, Exercise and Health SL

• Dance SL

IB Core

• Theory of Knowledge

Interested in seeing the IB curriculum Gables has to offer for grades 9-12? Click here!