Ballston Spa Senior High School

Overview

Ballston Spa Senior High School serves students in grades 9 through 12 as the district's comprehensive public high school. The school is part of the Ballston Spa Central School District, which serves a suburban area in New York's Tech Valley region.

Academics and pathways

The high school offers Advanced Placement coursework and College/University in the High School classes for college credit across multiple subject areas. Students may take AP or college-credit classes in subjects including art, biology, calculus, chemistry, physics, history, language and composition, literature and composition, French, Spanish, video game design and technology. The district also supports an early college option through the Clean Technologies & Sustainable Industries Early College High School at the Hudson Valley Community College TEC-SMART site, where students enrolled in the program may earn college credits while completing high school. The high school operates on a modified, rotating, block schedule.

Athletics, activities and facilities

Athletic teams, extracurricular and cocurricular clubs complement classroom offerings. Academic and competitive clubs noted in district materials include Business, Envirothon, Science Olympiad, Robotics, Biology and Odyssey of the Mind; music programs continue through high school with band, orchestra and chorus opportunities and options to use music toward Regents diploma requirements via the Individual Arts Assessment Pathway (IAAP). The school campus includes a six-lane, 25-yard swimming pool with one-meter diving boards used by physical education classes, school swim teams and community swim programs; the pool is used for lap and open swim and is maintained at a competition-sanctioned temperature range.

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