Advanced Placement

The Deerfield curriculum offers Honors, AP, or accelerated course sequences in all academic departments to encourage students to pursue advanced scholastic work and to prepare them for the College Board Advanced Placement exams in May. Last year Deerfield students wrote 475 AP examinations in 20 different subject areas.

In addition to taking Honors and AP classes, students with a deep interest and gift in a field, be it mathematics, the visual and performing arts, science, writing or the humanities, may enroll in an advanced tutorial or arrange to work with a teacher on an individual basis.