Curriculum

Knowledge gives your child power. At Freire Charter School, our goal is to offer your child an array of challenging courses to maximize their powerful potential.

Freire Charter School’s rigorous college-preparatory curriculum is designed to ensure that every Freire student graduates with the credits required for acceptance at any top college in the US.

This includes four years each of English, math, science, and social studies, as well as three years of language study. In addition to these intensive requirements, we offer a variety of courses that engage students deeply with their learning and bring to life connections between students’ classwork, their communities and real-world issues. The passing grade for all classes at Freire is 75%.

Freire Middle School

• 5th grade classes are subject specialized into ELA/Social Studies, Math, and Science. Students have separate teachers for each of these core classes.
• 6th grade classes are subject specialized into ELA/Social Studies and Math/Science. Students have separate teachers for these core classes.
• 7th and 8th grade classes are all subject specialized. Students have every subject every day.

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Freire High School

* 12th Grade Electives include the following: Biology II, Advanced Biology II, AP U.S. History, and Personal & Business Finance.

Outside of Freire, advanced Juniors and Seniors may also take classes for both college credit and high school credit at local colleges and universities such as the Community College of Philadelphia, Drexel, Cheyney, Saint Joseph’s, Eastern, and Penn.