Hackley’s Upper School Science program begins by introducing ninth grade students to physics as a foundational science.
Students then take chemistry in tenth grade and are required to take biology or cell biology before graduation. Electives include a wide array of second-year and AP level courses in ecology, chemistry and physics as well as field biology and marine biology. Graduates of the Hackley science program will have a mastery of the fundamental principles and facts in each of the three major disciplines (physics, chemistry and biology); the ability to collect data properly; the ability to analyze data both collected and presented from textual material; the ability to communicate that understanding with precision and clarity; and, most fundamentally, an appreciation for and sense of wonder about the world around them.