Curriculum

The Bowling Green School curriculum is college-preparatory, with ACT scores for graduating seniors ranked well above the Louisiana state average. In our senior class each year we have 100% participation in the ACT, with 95% of our graduates going on to obtain a higher education. Our current average senior ACT score is 22. BGS students participate in both the private and public school literary rally competitions, with impressive results reported each year. Classroom is limited to provide for optimal student participation and utilization of educational resources, including an updated computer program for both elementary and secondary classrooms.

Pre-K - 6th grade

Pre-K - 6th grade uses the A Beka Curriculum in combination with the McMillan-McGraw Hill reading series being used in the upper elementary. This curriculum ensures that students will be taught new material on each grade level and that there is a sufficient review of old material each year. The curriculum provides for much drill and repetition in a variety of ways, which ensures good learning.

By using the A Beka program, and the logic of phonics, children in the PK4 class can learn to read. They begin the school year with mastering the vowels, consonants and their sounds through enjoyable classroom teaching. The forming of blends and reading simple words come naturally after this. During the second semester, our PK4 students are reading from small colorful books. At the close of the school year, the class as a whole will have mastered many phonics rules, have the ability to sound out and read simple words and have the knowledge to identify numbers 1-50 and count 1-100.

Bowling Green is very fortunate to have a computer lab for both the elementary and high school students. The elementary are taught beginning and intermediate keyboarding and are instructed on how to complete simple tasks in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, DOS, Windows and Web Design. The elementary lab is equipped with 28 stations. The high school is instructed in Keyboarding Applications, Desktop Publishing, actual design of a web site, Power Point presentation, use of the internet to do research projects and advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Access. This lab is equipped with 30 computer stations.

BGS is one of the few private schools that require their students to take the EXIT-LEAP exam, which is also the same one taken by the public school systems. This allows BGS to present their graduating seniors with a State of Louisiana Diploma.

Bowling Green is accredited by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE, which also approves the public school systems) and the Mississippi Private School Association.