At One World Secondary School, we plan for all students to pursue an American baccalaureate certificate, an academically balanced, challenging program of education to be recognized by universities in countries all over the world. Students earning this qualification with sufficiently high scores overall and especially in related subjects studied at an advanced level, such as Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry for natural sciences, or English, a foreign language, and History for humanities, as well as earning sufficiently high scores in additional tests will academically qualify for admission to the world’s most selective universities, including Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia.

As a small, start-up school, One World will provide a personalized learning environment with small classes and academies in which each student is known and valued as a human being and as a member of our school. Advanced academic programs we intend to offer include a bilingual diploma; Foundations, an interdisciplinary, multi-year humanities course related to the Great Books program formerly offered at the College of the University of Chicago; and university-level science & technology courses that will cultivate the talents of those drawn into this suggested study programme.