Academics

AP & Honors Courses

With 13 Advanced Placement and 14 Honors courses offered, Orange Lutheran students can find plenty to challenge them in our curriculum.

Online Options

Orange Lutheran students have access to our innovative approach to online education, Orange Lutheran Online (OLO). Studies can be crafted to fit students' individual needs - they can take all their courses online or choose a "blended" model with half online and half on-campus courses. Students can even take a single class online to free up their schedule for extracurricular activities. Orange Lutheran Online mirrors the same high quality academic structure as a traditional classroom, but offers a collaborative, yet flexible format.

STEM Program

Through partnerships with local firms and universities and exclusive opportunities for real-world experience, Orange Lutheran's STEM Program engages students' interests in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math inspires and prepares them to pursue majors and careers in those areas. Typical STEM students will graduates with a 4.3 GPA, an SAT score of 1920, and 5 AP test exams.

Resource Program

Orange Lutheran's Resource Program meets the needs of students with learning disabilities and other special instructional requirements, fostering academic growth through reasonable accomodations in curriculum and classroom expectations. Courses in the Resource Program help students reach their graduation goals through adaptations in reading level, research expectations, and notetaking requirements.

With expert teachers and counselors, advanced classroom technology, and a rigorous curriculum, Orange Lutheran is committed to getting students to the college or university of their choice. Through our course offerings as well as extra-curricular opportunities like honor societies and leadership and mentorship groups, we prepare students to impact the world as Christian men and women.

College Placement

Orange Lutheran has a proud record of success in getting its students to the college or university of their choice. 97 percent of the class of 2009 attends a college or university, and in the recent years our students have matriculated to local private schools like Concordia Irvine, Chapman, and USC, public universities like Berkeley and UCLA, and colleges across the nation like Duke, MIT, and Yale.

That success is a product of many factors, starting with our challenging core curriculum, which makes our graduates UC-eligible. Throughout their four years at Orange Lutheran, our counselors work with students and their families the entire way, offering advice and providing information about the college decision-making process.

Innovation in Learning

Orange Lutheran is proud of its reputation as an innovator in learning. Students have access to Orange Lutheran Online, our unique approach to online learning. We use an online gradebook that parents and students can access from home to track their academic progress, and our academic web portal, myOLu, makes class assignments and other information available anytime, wherever there is an internet connection.

Teachers, meanwhile, devote time in weekly meetings based on Pearson's Learning Teams model to jointly identify areas of student need, refine their teaching and produce better student results.

Individualized Guidance & Instruction

At Orange Lutheran, we know that no two students are alike, which is why we tailor our guidance and instruction to serve our students' individual needs. For students with learning disabilities, our Resource Program provides additional instruction and helps make reasonable accomodations in students' classes. Students wanting to get a head start on their college studies have 27 Honors and AP available to them, and offerings like our STEM Program match unique learning and career opportunities to student interests and talents.

Academic Divisions

Honored Scholars

The Honored Scholars for the 2009-2010 academic year are:

  • Kirstyn Besch
  • Jason Hight
  • Melissa Roberts
  • Jared Tan

Dig Deeper

See what Orange Lutheran has to offer academically. Explore the links below to preview some of the resources available to students and their families and learn more about our academic plan.

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