Beyond our walls.Planned together.
Our counselor and school leaders help students plan course choices, summer ACT and Accuplacer prep, and concurrent study with UALR.
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.
Guidance today
Who helps students plan what comes next.
The high school at Huda Academy is new, and college counseling is growing with it. For now, the work is shared by three people: the principal, the vice principal and the school counselor.
Rather than a separate office, college counseling at this stage sits with the school’s leadership and its counselor, the same people responsible for the high school’s courses and for the students’ well-being.
The school plans to hire a dedicated high school counselor, sometimes called an academic counselor. In most schools that role centers on course planning, college applications and what comes after high school, and it would give older students one person whose job is exactly that.
There have been no graduating classes yet, so the school has no college destinations to report. What it does have is the groundwork described below: AP and Pre-AP courses, concurrent enrollment with UALR, and summer preparation for the ACT and Accuplacer.
The school will confirm
What a student gets from counseling today: the grade it starts in, whether students and parents have planning meetings, and what help is given with college and scholarship applications. Also when the school expects to hire the high school counselor.
Getting ready
The groundwork a student can lay before college.
College readiness at Huda Academy rests on three things a student can do while still in high school: take harder courses, earn college credit, and prepare for the tests colleges use.
Choosing courses
The first decisions are about courses. Pre-AP and AP courses are offered in English, math, science and social studies, and a transcript shows colleges whether a student chose to stretch themselves. Because high school courses are scheduled around the state’s credit requirements and each student’s needs, it pays to think early about which of these courses fit.
Earning college credit
Through the school’s partnership with UALR, high school students can take concurrent courses. A student who does well in them arrives at college with some of the work already on a college transcript, which can save time and tuition later.
Preparing for the tests
The school runs preparation over the summer, when students have time to focus on it, for the ACT, the admission test most Arkansas colleges look at, and for Accuplacer, the placement test colleges use, including for concurrent courses. Starting early leaves room to take the ACT more than once if a student wants a higher score.
The school will confirm
The format and cost of the summer ACT and Accuplacer preparation, the grades it is open to, and when the school recommends students first take the ACT.
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Life after Huda
Start the college talk early.
The earlier a family starts planning, the more options a student keeps, so reach out and we will talk.
