Harriton High School Profile 2021-2022

Art

Advanced Ceramics and Metal Arts 3/4/5, Advanced Film Photography 3/4/5, Art 1/2/3, Communication Design 3/4/5, 9th grade Art

English

1/2/3; Creative Writing, Film and Literature, Journalism, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Reading and Writing Non-Fiction, Theater Arts: Drama Survey and Appreciation, Sports in Literature and Nonfiction , Voices in African-American Literature and Non-Fiction

Mathematics

Integrated Math 2/3, Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science 1/2, Computer Science Seminar, Geometry, Integrated Math 1/2/3, Pre-calculus, Senior Seminar, Visual Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (H), Cyber Security (H)

Music

Concert Band, Concert Choir, Symphony Orchestra, Music Major

Science, Technology, and Engineering

Architectural Design, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Aided Drafting and Design, Foundations of Engineering and Design (Beg/Adv), Genetics, Geology, Human Anatomy/Physiology, Innovation and Invention Robotics, Landscape Architecture/Horticulture, Meteorology, Physics, Oceanography, Organic Chemistry

Social Studies

Economics, Global Studies I , Global Studies II, Global Citizenship, Philosophy and Modern Culture, Black Excellence: The Politics, Economics, and Culture of an American People, Psychology, U.S. Government, U.S. History

World Languages

French 1/2/3/4/5/6 (for Global Competence), Japanese 1/2, Latin 1/2/3/4/6 (for Global Competence)Spanish 1 (Spanish Speaker), 2/3/4/5/6 (for Global Competence)

All courses designated on the transcript by the word Honors or the letter H are accelerated and enriched.

No class rank is recorded on a student’s transcript.

Any institution may request in writing from the School Counseling Department the class rank of any student if class rank is required for admission to that school or needed for any scholarship program. The class rank reported is weighted and includes only major academic subject courses completed in grades 9-11.

Bates College, Boston College, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Bucknell University, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon University, College of William and Mary, Columbia University, Drexel University, Duke University, George Washington University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Gettysburg College, Grinnell College, Harvard University, Indiana University, Bloomington, Northwestern University, Occidental College, Penn State University, Pennsylvania College of Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Smith College, Temple University, Texas A&M University, The University of Vermont, Tulane University, University of California, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, Villanova University

Students are also attending universities outside the United States including; McGill University, University of East London, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto

Three Harriton High School artists were among the 1% of students to earn national recognition in the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. At the Regional level, Harriton students won 40 awards across a wide range of categories, including six Gold Keys, 13 Silver Keys and 21 Honorable Mentions.

Five Harriton High School students were chosen from among 1400 business students across Pennsylvania to compete in the DECA International Competition and one student, finished in the international Top Ten. DECA is an organization for Emerging Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs, in which more than 20,000 students from 22 countries compete.

Harriton High School sophomore Anna Welsh donated $11,000 from “Little Bags by Anna” to Tree House Books to stock the organization’s mobile library and support childhood literacy in Philadelphia.

To support students during virtual instruction, more than 100 students from Lower Merion and Harriton high schools set up a free tutoring service, scheduling and providing hundreds of hours of supplemental instruction, homework support, friendship and mentoring for more than 60 younger students from throughout the District.

LMSD earned a Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) designation from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. The BCME distinction is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education to all students. This is the eleventh consecutive year the District has earned this prestigious accolade.

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