ACADEMICS
As students learn and grow at LFA, our curriculum builds upon a foundation that creates individualized experiences, enhances critical and empathetic thinking skills, and fosters their interests. Choice is key in this process, and each student’s academic journey is unique.
12
Average Class Size
7:1 Student to Faculty Ratio
2 0
Average years of teaching experience
1430
Median S AT Score
Cur r i culum
5
National Mer it Semifinalists
2 4 Travel Oppor tunities
Advanced Placement Courses
Art History Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC Chemistry
Chinese Language
Computer Science A 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
S pr ing Bre ak Tr ip s
• NYC (orchestra)
• Bahamas (AP Env. Science)
• Martinique (AP French)
• Belize
• Greece
• Peru
• Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam
C ur r i cu la r Tr ips
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• A r t Inst i tute of Chicago
• Adler Planetarium
• Nor t hwes ter n Unive r si ty’s High School Journalism Day
• 27th Annual Festival of Films in French at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• The National Public Housing Museum of Chicago
Independent Studies
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 Applied Data Analytics, Musical Theater, Artificial Intelligence, Complex Variables, Biofuels from Plants, Filmmaking, International Relations, Kinesiology, The Evolution of Architecture.
Academic Clubs
• Computer Science Club – 2024 Illinois State Champions in Senior 5 Div of the American Computer Science League (ACSL)
• F B L A (Future Business Leaders of America) – 15 students earned a top 10 finish in the Illinois State Leadership Conference, and seven qualified for the national competition in 2024.
• Math Team – 2023 & 2024 Illinois State Champions
• Model UN – LFA has par t i cipated i n a l l 36 yea rs of Model UN
• Robotics – Competes annually in the First Robotics Competition
• Science Olympiad – 2nd place in the 2024 Illinois State Tou r nament
• Spectator Newspaper – Quill and Scroll/PSJA Journalism National Contest: 3rd place in Continuous Coverage category
MAT RICUL AT ION
Top 15 places for Classes of 2021- 24:
Universit y of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign (21), Nor thwestern Universit y (18), New York University (15), University of Michigan (12), Indiana University (11), Wake Forest Universit y (11), Washington University –St. Louis (10), Boston University (9), Duke Universit y (8), University of Miami (8), Purdue University ( 7), University of Southern California (7), Emory University (7), Northeastern University (7), Harvard University (6)
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
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
Connecticut College
Cornell University
Creighton University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Denison University
DePaul University
Drake University
Drexel University
Duke University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
George Washington University
Ge o r ge t own University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Har vard University
Har vey Mudd College
Haverford College
Howard University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Ithaca College
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
Lake Forest College
Lake Superior State University
Lawrence University
Lehigh University
Lewis University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University Chicago
Macalester College
Marquette University
Marshall University
McGill University
Miami University, Oxford
Michigan State University
Moun t Hol yoke College
New York University
North Carolina State University
Nor theastern University
Nor t hwestern Universit y
NYU Shanghai
Occidental College
Olin College of Engineering
Otterbein University
Parsons School of Design at The New School
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Point Loma Nazarene University
Pomona College
Pratt Institute
Purdue University
Queen's University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rollins College
Sacred Heart University
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
South Plains College
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Texas Christian University
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art
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
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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 Dubuque
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 Minnesota
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University of Missouri, Columbia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Redlands
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of St Andrews
University of Sydney
University of Toronto
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Uniwersytet Wroclawski
Upper Iowa University
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Military Institute
Wake Forest University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wells College
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
Wheeling University
William & Mary
Williams College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University
Nearly half of g radua t es were admi t ted to a college with an a ccepta nce rate of ≤ 15%
