ACADEMICS
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As students learn and grow at LFA, our curriculum builds upon a foundation that allows them to develop an individualized experience that fosters their interests. Choice is key in this process, and no two students’ academic journeys are alike. To discover all of the choices offered, please visit lfanet.org/academics/curriculum.
12 Average Class Size
2 4
Advanced Placement Courses
Art History
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Chinese Language
Computer Science A
7:1 Student to Faculty Ratio
62% of Facul t y Live on Campus
Upcoming Travel Oppor tunities
S pr ing Bre ak Tr ip s
• Berlin, Prague, Munich
• Miami, The Keys and Southeast Florida
• Spain and Morocco
• Turkey
3 2 Median ACT Score
Independent Studies
5 National Mer it Semifinalists
Independent studies provide students opportunities to work with LFA faculty to pursue more advanced level course work, seek additional in-depth subject matter, or explore a subject not offered.
Recent independent studies courses include Musical Theater, Baroque Architecture, History of French Film, Mobile App Development, Kinesiology, Advanced Directing, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Advanced Musician Studies.
Computer Science Principles
Economics
English Language
English Literature
Environmental Science
French Language
Music Theory
Physics C: Mechanics
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
Precalculus
Psychology
Spanish Language
Spanish Literature Statistics
U.S. Government and Comparative Politics
U.S. History
World History
• United Kingdom
Field Tr ips
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• A r t Inst i tute of Chicago
• Adler Plane t arium
• Nor t hwes ter n Unive r si ty’s High School Journalism Day at Medill
• America’s Black Holocaust Museum and the Sherman Phoenix Market place in Milwaukee
• Mitchell Museum of the A me r ican Indian
Academic Clubs
• Model UN
LFA has par ticipated i n all 35 yea rs of Model UN
• Math Team
2023 State Champions ( I C T M State Math Contest - D i v 2 A)
• F B L A (Future Business Leaders of America)
Nine students qua l i fied for the 2023 national compet i t i on at t he National Leadersh i p Con f e rence in At lan ta.
• Robotics
• Science Olympiad
• Science Fair
• Debate
2 2 students cur rent ly enr o l led in an independent study
MAT RICUL AT ION
Top 10 places for Classes of 2020- 23:
Nor thwestern Universit y (17), Universit y of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign (17), New York University (15), University of Michigan (14), Duke Universit y (10), Boston University (9), Washington University – St. Louis (8), Indiana University (8), University of Miami (8), Wake Forest University (8)
These are the institutions to which students have enrolled over the past four years. The bolded names are where multiple LFA alumni currently attend.
Adelphi University
Alma College
American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Augustana College
Babson College
Bard College
Bates College
Baylor University
Boston College
Boston Universit y
Brandeis Universit y
Brown Universit y
Bucknell Universit y
Butler Universit y
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Carroll College
Case Western Reserve
Uni ver sity
Central Michigan University
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Colorado College
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Cornell University
Creighton University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Denison University
DePaul University
DePauw University
Drake University
Duke University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Emory University, Oxford
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Howard University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Ithaca College
Johns Hopkins University
Knox College
Lake Forest College
Lehigh University
Lewis University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University Chicago
Macalester College
Marquette University
Marshall University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University, Oxford
Michigan State University
New York University
Nor theastern University
Northern Michigan University
Nor t hwestern Universit y
Notre Dame College
NYU Shanghai
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Olin College of Engineering
Oregon State University
Otterbein University
Parsons School of Design at
The New School
Pennsylvania State University,
University Park
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Pratt Institute
Purdue University
Queen's University
Reed College
Rhodes College
Rice University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rollins College
Sacred Heart University
Santa Clara University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Southern Methodist University
St. Lawrence University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Texas Christian University
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The University of West Florida
Trinity College
Trinity College Dublin
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
Union College
United States Military Academy at West Point
University of Alaska Anchorage
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Denver
University of Detroit Mercy
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Melbourne
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Redlands
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of St Andrews
University of Sydney
University of Toronto
University of Vermont
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Uniwersytet Wroclawski
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Military Institute
Wagner College
Wake Forest University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wells College
Western Kentucky University
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
William & Mary
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University
50% o f t he C lass of 2023 was admi t ted to colleges with an a ccepta nce rate of ≤ 15%
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