HIGH SCHOOL
We offer 18 AP courses online and 8 face to face. 60% of our high schoolers are enrolled in AP courses which reflects the College Park Academy culture of academic excellence. We partner with the University of Maryland and Prince George’s Community College to offer dual enrollment courses where students earn credits that count toward high school and college. We also offer concurrent enrollment, meaning students can take college courses that earn credits towards their college degrees.
Jennifer King Rice, PhD
Sr. Vice President & Provost, UMD
Former CPA Board Chair
In high school, CPA allows students to take specialized and focused course collections through UMD Signature Programs.
This program allows students to enroll in a subject they find interesting and earn several credits towards their degree while they take a variety of college courses, participate in university lectures and discussion groups, complete collaborative projects with their peers all under direction of UMD and PGCC faculty.
Students also receive college counseling from CPA’s counselor Jane Godwin, and college counseling from UMD counselors. On the CPA side of college counseling, we ensure students are on track to graduate, identify schools and specific programs they are interested in, and walk them through the application process. UMD counselors arrange sessions for staff and students to present and answer questions at CPA, field trips for CPA students to experience UMD’s campus and specific programs, and meetings for CPA students to interact with UMD students.
An example of a field trip we have held in the past includes a trip to the UMD broadcast studio where students met UMD Journalism students to tour the classrooms and studio and then had time to ask questions about life in the program.
By the time College Park Academy students graduate, they can earn up to 60 college credits. They have developed a mastery over core subjects as well as a well-rounded understanding of foreign language, art, music, and physical education. Our students are self-motivated because online courses require them to monitor their own education with more agency over the pace and progression of their courses. Students leave College Park Academy with confidence in their abilities to succeed in college because they have completed such a rigorous high school curriculum, and CPA equips them with an extensive support network that will remain available through their college careers as well.
