Academics

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Captain Shreve offers a wide variety of academic opportunities for students of every grade level. Electives, advanced placement classes, and more provide Gators with the tools they need to prepare for a collegiate career and succeed in whatever direction they decide to take later in life.

Due to changing requirements over the past few years regarding required courses, required number of credits, etc., the easiest way to find information pertaining to each student's academics is to take a look at the Student Handbook. The handbook includes information pertaining to available courses, common procedures, academic requirements, and much more. If you need more information than that is provided in the handbook, or have a question, feel free to contact a counselor (Contact Information).

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For more information regarding college preparation, TOPS, etc., please visit Life After Shreve

Gifted and Honors Programs:

Our gifted and honors courses begin at the 9th grade level and follow a college preparatory curriculum. Gifted and honors courses have many advantages such as smaller class size, personal attention, and activities that offer students opportunities for creative expression and critical thinking. Students enrolled in these programs have access to advanced technology and applications, including LabQuests, colorimeters, spectrometers, and probeware for graphical analysis of data in real time; microscopes with smartphone adapters; a large format printer; and 1:1 mobile technology for access to applications.  Advanced students are challenged by instructors who are trained to incorporate engaging activities, collaborative projects, and real-world applications. Often students discover career interests in our advanced engineering, math, and language courses.  Gifted and honors level courses offer additional academic enrichment opportunities, including advanced science labs, Social Studies Fair, the Gayarre History Conference, Artbreak, and the Scholastic Writing Awards.  

Courses are offered in all four core content areas: English, math, science, social studies.

Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement courses are offered to all grade levels. The Advanced Placement program is for serious students who seek academic challenges. In the AP program students can expect to learn skills that will make them successful in college. AP students participate in class discussions and Socratic seminars, collaborate to solve problems, build communication and composition skills, develop study habits for college, and use advanced technology and applications in their courses. 

The Advanced Placement program is governed by the College Board. Captain Shreve offers a variety of AP courses to prepare students for AP exams and earn college credit or advanced placement in college.

AP exam scores are accepted by nearly every college and university, unlike dual enrollment credits.  All AP students should plan to take the exam for their course. Colleges and universities award credit or placement based on student exam scores. Exams are administered in May and require a fee. We offer scholarships to offset AP exam fees.

AP Course offerings:

  • Chemistry

  • European History

  • English Language & Composition

  • English Literature & Composition

  • Environmental Science

  • French Language

  • Human Geography

  • Calculus AB

  • Physics

  • Precalculus

  • Psychology

  • Research

  • Seminar

  • Statistics

  • U.S. Government & Politics 

  • U.S. History

AP Capstone

We are proud to offer AP Capstone, a rigorous, selective program to support high performing students in developing critical skills in research. This inquiry-based program complements other AP course offerings. In building toward the Capstone Diploma, students must meet the College Board standards in AP Seminar, AP Research, and four other AP courses of their choice taken during their high school career.

Beginning with AP Seminar, students develop skills in research and communication through project-based learning. Collaboration is valued in this course as students learn to think creatively and critically in developing claims for a team presentation. The course culminates with an exam, a presentation, and an extended individual research project that are scored against the College Board standards.

In year two, students continue to develop their skills in the AP Research course. Each candidate develops an academic paper, presents their argument, and makes an oral defense. Qualified students earn the AP Capstone Diploma or Certificate, honors that will distinguish students in future endeavors such as college applications and scholarships.​

Dual Enrollment

At the junior and senior level, students enrolled in the Early Start program may earn college credit for course work completed at Captain Shreve. Captain Shreve has partnered with local colleges and universities to offer dual enrollment courses in a range of disciplines. Students who meet program requirements may enroll in a local partnering college or university while still in high school. Grades are recorded on both the high school and college transcripts. Captain Shreve students have earned up to 40 hours of college credit through the Early Start program. 

Captain Shreve partners with the following colleges and universities:

  • Bossier Parish Community College

  • Louisiana State University

  • Louisiana State University, Eunice

  • Louisiana State University, Shreveport

  • Louisiana Tech

  • Southern University at Shreveport

Captain Shreve course offerings with dual enrollment option:

  • United States History

  • Biology II 

  • Chemistry II 

  • Pre-Calculus

  • English III & IV

  • French III & IV

  • Spanish III & IV

  • JROTC III, IV, & V

  • Novels

  • Drama III, IV, & V

CLEP

More than 2,900 U.S. colleges and universities grant credit for CLEP.  We offer CLEP testing and fund over 100 CLEP tests for Shreve students each year. 

Academic Honesty Policy:

The essential rules of academic honesty are that every assignment should be the original work of the student who turns it in, and appropriate credit should be given to all sources used. It is the responsibility of each student to adhere to a high code of honor and integrity.

Student, Parent/Guardian, and Teacher Responsibilities:

  • Students are expected to adhere to the principles of academic honesty in completing all tests, quizzes, reports, assignments, discussions, and other academic work represented as their own.

  • Parents/guardians are expected to support the spirit and intent of this agreement by reviewing the principles of academic honesty with their student and encouraging the student to practice them.

  • Teachers are expected to promote the academic honesty policy through ongoing reference to and application of the principles which safeguard the integrity of our program, to make clear to students the fact that the principles of academic honesty will be strictly enforced, and to act on and enforce appropriate consequences when a student is found to have violated the academic honesty policy.

Academic dishonesty is evidenced by not following testing procedures, cheating or plagiarizing and involves an attempt by a student to show possession of knowledge and skills he/she does not possess. Providing unauthorized information to another student, such as test, essay, or assignment answers, is also a violation of academic honesty.

Plagiarism or violations of the academic honest policy include:

  1. Using or having had access to unauthorized information on a test

  2. Stealing passages or ideas from any source and using them in one's own writing assignments without proper documentation.

  3. Collaborating with another student on an individual assignment.

  4. Recording/copying test questions or answers to pass to other students and/or receiving copied questions or answers.

  5. Providing or receiving answers from individual assignments or essays

  6. Discussing test questions or answers with another student without the express permission of the instructor.

  7. Altering or misusing documents

  8. Impersonating, misrepresenting, or knowingly providing false information as to one's identity

  9. Use of an online language translator

  10. Violation of testing procedures

Should plagiarism or violation of the academic honesty policy occur, the student will receive no credit for the assignment and may be referred to the administration for disciplinary action. In addition, a student involved in an instance of academic dishonesty should be aware of the ramifications regarding teacher recommendations and college admissions. The student remains responsible for the academic honesty of work submitted and should consult with the course instructor if anything about these guidelines is unclear.

This policy was adapted from the School Academic Honesty Agreement published by Louisiana Department of Education for Louisiana Virtual School.