Academics

What comes next.Starts here.

Pre-AP and AP courses, concurrent enrollment with UALR, and summer ACT prep help students aim for college with Islamic purpose.

College Counseling Explore the pathway

A run of rust-orange school lockers with brushed-steel latch plates and one combination padlock in sharp focus.

Grade span unconfirmed. This page is not linked from the site menu yet. The school does have a high school - it answered the intake as a school that runs AP and Pre-AP courses, concurrent enrollment with UALR and ADE graduation requirements. What is not settled is how far it currently reaches: every fee, course list and ceremony in the intake stops at Grade 9, and grades 10 to 12 are stated as intent. Nothing here should be published until the school confirms the span.

College-level work

Pre-AP, AP and college courses with UALR.

A young man in glasses reads a large book in a quiet, sunlit classroom

Pre-AP • AP • UALR

A teenage boy stands reading a book by a tall window in a dim classroom

Pre-AP and AP

Huda Academy’s high school offers Pre-AP and AP courses in English, math, science and social studies. AP (Advanced Placement) courses are college-level classes set by the College Board, ending in a national exam each May; a good score can earn college credit, depending on the college. Pre-AP courses prepare students for that level of work in the years before.

Concurrent enrollment with UALR

Through concurrent enrollment with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), high school students can take college courses while still at Huda Academy. It is one part of a wider partnership with UALR, which also trains and supports the school’s teachers.

How courses are chosen

There is no fixed catalog of courses for every year. In the school’s words, “High school has different courses through the year based off of number of credit hour requirements by ADE and student needs.” Each student’s courses are planned around the credits they need and where they are heading.

The high school is new: Grade 9 is currently the highest grade enrolled, and the school is adding a grade each yearNeeds fixing.

The school will confirm

Which Pre-AP and AP courses run in which year, whether AP exams are taken at the school, and which students can take UALR courses and what they cost.

Graduation and preparation

Graduation requirements, test prep and counseling.

A high school has to get students to graduation and ready for what comes after. Here is what the school has set out so far.

Graduation requirements

The school follows the Arkansas Department of Education’s graduation requirements. In the school’s words, “Our requirements are the same as public school.” The Graduation Requirements page will list the credits once the school sends them.

The school will confirm

The ADE graduation requirements sheet the school uses, and whether there is also an Islamic studies or Qur’an requirement to graduate.

ACT and Accuplacer prep

The school offers ACT and Accuplacer preparation during the summer. The ACT is the college admission test widely used in Arkansas. Accuplacer is a placement test many colleges use to decide which courses a student is ready for, including for concurrent enrollment.

The school will confirm

How summer test prep is run, and whether families pay for it.

Counseling

For now, the principal, the vice principal and the school counselor guide students on courses and college plans together. The school plans to hire a dedicated high school academic counselor later. The College Counseling page has more.

No class has graduated from the high school yetNeeds fixing, so there is no list of colleges graduates have gone on to.

Faith and life

Faith, service and activities in the high school years.

High school students keep studying their faith seriously, and take on more of the school’s life, from leading the khutbah to running the yearbook.

A young man in a white thobe sits reading a red-covered book

Faith

Islamic studies, Qur’an, Arabic and the Ijazah

Islamic studies, Qur’an and Arabic are taught four times a weekNeeds fixing, and teachers follow the curriculum the school provides. Islamic studies uses Living IslamNeeds fixing, the series for high school.

The Ijazah program began with Grade 9 this school yearNeeds fixing. An Ijazah is a certificate from a qualified teacher, traditionally carrying a chain of teachers back to the Prophet, peace be upon him, confirming that a student recites the Qur’an correctly. The school has 11 huffaz on staff.

Older students lead too: they give the khutbah on Fridays and mentor younger children during salah.

The school will confirm

The title and publisher of the high school Islamic studies series, and what the Ijazah program asks of a student.

Two older teenage boys look over papers in a folder together outdoors

Student life

Service, leadership, clubs and teams

Service learning
Student council
Model UN
Yearbook
Mathletes
Mustang Minds, the puzzle and logic club
Robotics and coding
Volleyball, for girls
Soccer, for boys

Student council members are elected by other students and must keep good grades and good behavior. Yearbook members are nominated by a teacher and approved by the yearbook committee. The volleyball and soccer teams do not yet play other schools; the school is working to arrange games.

Our classrooms

Mixed classrooms, and learning to conduct yourself well.

“The Huda Academy provides mixed gender learning environments for all grades pre-k through 12th grade with a focus on creating inclusive, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate classrooms for all students. Based on school vision we educate students on how to appropriately interact socially with students of the opposite gender to prepare them for society.Needs fixing”

The school’s policy, in its own words. It names the grades it covers, which the school is still to confirm.

Rows of empty blue chairs and wooden desks in a warm classroom with a tall window

Families often ask whether boys and girls are taught separately at high school age. At Huda Academy they are not: classes are mixed at every stage, including high school.

The school sees this as part of its job, not only a matter of timetabling. Its aim, in the statement above, is to teach students how to interact appropriately with the opposite gender, so they are prepared for the wider society they will live and work in.

Teams are the one place boys and girls are separate: the volleyball team is for girls, and the soccer team is for boys.

The school will confirm

The highest grade enrolled this year, and the school’s plan for the later high school grades.

Continue exploring