Freshmen students will be placed in science for the first year based on their Nolan Catholic placement test scores, previous testing and their grades from 8th grade. Graduation requirements include 4 years of Science. Students who want a strong science background are advised to include physics and chemistry in their four year plan.

Nolan Catholic Boasts Nation's Longest Running High School Ecology Program

For more than 30 years, students in Nolan Catholic's honors ecology classes have participated in excursions that include the Costa Rican rainforest, Big Bend, Port Aransas and Caddo Lake.

Through the years, the program has attracted significant ecological scientists and environmentalists to the school. "Our goal with this progam was never to turn our ecologists, although we have," said the program's founder Dr. Joseph Kuban. "I just wanted to turn out students who had a better awareness of where the earth is, what we've done to it and what we can do to save it. I've tried to teach students to be free thinkers and to look at the earth and say, "I can be part of the solution."

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