Golda Och Academy students complete our rigorous and challenging High School curriculum in seven semesters. By the end of their seventh semester they have submitted their college applications, completed their academic requirements for graduation and chosen a last semester program.
College Guidance
All High School students are provided with an intensive college and career program. The primary focus is self-understanding and formulating goals and plans consistent with that self-understanding. Students and parents learn about opportunities and expectations through a variety of sources. These include: individual conferences, group work, testing, parent-student meetings, trips to college fairs and college campuses, written material and work-study programs.
The overall goal of our College Guidance Program is to help our students make a successful transition to their post-high school life. Career education is also offered to students in our High School. We are committed to helping our students make an informed decision about college. Our Office of College Counseling works with students and their parents as they navigate the college selection process. One hundred percent of our graduates attend a diverse group of colleges, including Ivy League institutions, small liberal arts colleges and large state universities. For more information on the College Guidance process, please click here.
Students choose between two programs for the second half of the senior year, after the college applications are submitted:
Neshama
Neshama: our extremely meaningful semester-long educational program in Israel that begins with a week in Eastern Europe. After touring Eastern Europe, the students arrive in Israel where they volunteer in a development town, participate in a desert-ecology seminar at a field school in the Negev, experience the high school military service training of Gadna, engage in seminars on political advocacy and visit major historical, religious and cultural sites. The Neshama program enables students to perfect their Hebrew skills, witness and learn about current political issues and study Jewish history using the land as their classroom.
Read summaries of the Neshama experience presented by students to their classmates and parents at a pre-graduation event each year:
Internship Program
A kaleidoscope of options awaits those who choose to participate in the Internship program, a real-world work experience. Individual programs vary but may include job training in a field of the students’ choice (such as medical research, state or national government, non-profit work, law, advertising, communication, design, etc). Students who choose this option meet on a regular basis with their fellow students and faculty advisors to discuss their experiences, go on field trips and to maintain social contact.
