High School
Knowledge, challenge, and purpose
High School is the culmination of the Killian Oaks academic experience, and the personal attention doesn't end at 8th grade.
Killian Oaks offers a comprehensive 24-credit High School Diploma designed to provide a rigorous, balanced academic program while keeping the personalized, student-centered approach that defines the Academy. The curriculum emphasizes academic rigor, competency-based progression, critical thinking, evidence-based communication, and college readiness, with remedial support, acceleration, and honors coursework so that each student is both supported and challenged.
Reading, writing, and mathematics
Reading and literature
Increasingly sophisticated literature and nonfiction: theme, structure, symbolism, perspective, rhetoric, author's craft, and historical context. Students evaluate how meaning is constructed, analyze competing interpretations, and support conclusions with textual evidence.
The four-year Writing Seminar
Analytical, expository, argumentative, and research-based writing, every year. Students develop defensible thesis statements, organize complex ideas, construct sustained arguments, integrate and evaluate evidence, conduct academic research, revise substantially, and produce extended essays and research papers, so they enter college prepared to write at the level undergraduate coursework expects.
Mathematics
Secure conceptual foundations, progression by demonstrated readiness and course requirements, and personalized instruction that addresses prerequisite gaps while challenging students ready to advance.
Learning in community
Science
Inquiry, laboratory experience, analysis, and evidence, so students understand science as both a discipline and a method.
Social studies
Historical understanding, civic awareness, and critical analysis of the people, institutions, political systems, and ideas that have shaped societies.
World languages
Sophisticated communication through listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and a broader understanding of cultures beyond their own.
Physical education and the arts
Physical education and electives such as art and performing arts, with creativity, discipline, and the chance to discover interests that shape future study.
Ready for college, ready for what comes next
By high school, personalized education evolves toward independence.
Students are expected to understand their own strengths, recognize areas that need work, respond constructively to feedback, manage complex assignments, communicate with teachers, and take ownership of their progress. Students receive support through the college admission process as we work with each family to identify the right national or international university.
The High School enrolls both local families and F-1 international students. Killian Oaks is an SEVP-certified school and issues its own Form I-20, and international students pursue the same 24-credit diploma with the English-language and academic support appropriate to their proficiency and goals. The international program.
- Grades9th through 12th grade
- Tuition$36,000 a year in 2026-2027, with registration, materials, and technology fees of $800, $800, and $500. Tuition and scholarships
- Scholarship$7,942 for high school this year
- The dayArrive by 8:10 a.m. Clubs at 3:00 p.m., Homework Club until 5:00 p.m., tutorials in every academic subject
- AdmissionTranscripts, recommendations from an administrator, an English teacher, and a mathematics teacher, and an academic assessment. How it works
We'd love to meet your child
The best way to know whether Killian Oaks is right for your child is to walk the campus on a school day, watch a lesson, and talk with the people who would teach them. Tell us your child's grade and we'll set a time.