Academics

School Profile

The BCA Mission

 

The British Columbia Academy is committed to the achievement of academic excellence and is characterized and enriched by its dual-diploma and language program taught in both English and Mandarin. BCA’s mission is to inspire a life-long love of learning. BCA encourages intellectual challenges and curiosity, critical and creative thinking, and personal and social responsibility which allows our students to realize and reach their potential. BCA prepares students to be compassionate, ethical, and responsible individuals capable and willing to contribute to local and global communities.

 

 

Accreditation and Memberships

 

BCA is registered with the Nanjing Bureau of Education. Additionally, BCA is a certified British Columbia Offshore school (10396847) and has passed annual on-site inspections since it’s inauguration in 2002. BCA is also a registered Advanced Placement (AP) center (CEEB: 694214) and offers 14 AP courses in the 2024-2025 school year.

 

 

The Faculty

 

BCA has 48 staff members. All faculty members are licensed teachers. All BCA staff members have teaching credentials such as a B.Ed, M.Ed, PGCE or equivalents. Faculty members certified to teach the BC curriculum all have professional or master’s level university degrees. Our teachers come from Ireland, Canada, USA, UK, Spain, and China.

The Student Body

 

BCA currently enrolls 326 students in their secondary years. The student body are Chinese nationals. Eighty percent of BCA students come from Nanjing Foreign Language School’s Middle Years program and twenty percent of students come from other schools in Jiangsu Province. Students are required to achieve two main academic criteria to study at BCA. A competitive score of the Zhongkao (high school entrance exam) and an English proficiency assessment. As a dual-diploma program, BCA students are proficient in both English and Mandarin for academic purposes. All BC Diploma courses are instructed entirely in English and courses contributing to the Chinese Secondary School diploma are instructed in Mandarin.

Academic Programme

 

BCA operates on a linear schedule system with diversified assessments, examinations, and project-based learning (PBL). Term and semester examinations are required for all academic courses, and optional for vocational elective courses. Students complete external assessment in both numeracy and literacy in Grades 10 and 12. BCA is inspected annually to ensure high educational and operational standards are being met. BCA has passed the annual inspection with the highest distinction for the past 22 years.

 

 

The British Columbia Dogwood Diploma

 

The core requirements can be found at: Certificates of Graduation - Province of British Columbia (gov.bc.ca). Students are expected to complete 80 credits to graduate. BCA offers the following courses in grade 10 and 11.
 

Grade 10: English Composition, English Literary Studies, Drama, Spoken Language, Foundations in Mathematics, Pre-calculus (11), Physical and Health Education, Social Studies (History), Science, Mandarin and Career-life education.
 

Grade 11: English Composition, AP Composition and Language, Social Studies (History), Fitness and Conditioning, Pre-calculus (12), Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences (Biology), and Mandarin.
 

Our transcripts are printed on secure paper and require a raised stamp and signature from our BCA administration to be considered official.

The BC+ Programme

 

BC+ students take an accelerated version of the BC curriculum with AP courses designed to allow students to display their academic proficiency through BC courses and AP exams starting in Grade 10. Students who complete the BC+ programme will graduate with the AP Capstone Diploma in addition to the BC Dogwood Diploma.

 

 

Grade Scale

 

A = demonstrates excellent or outstanding performance
B = The demonstrates very good performance
C+ = demonstrates good performance
C = demonstrates satisfactory performance
C- = demonstrates minimally acceptable performance
IE = Insufficient Evidence of Learning
F = The student has not demonstrated the minimally acceptable performance
W = (Withdrawal)

AP Course Offerings

 

BCA students can choose from 14 AP course options in the 2024-2025 school year. AP courses are taught by BC certified teachers. Students who take AP courses at BC earn a credit on their Dogwood Diploma transcripts as well AP exam results represented on College Board’s score report.

Grade 10 AP Courses

Seminar

Microeconomics

CompSci Principles

 

Grade 11 AP Courses

Research

Microeconomics

CompSci A

Macroeconomics

AP Physics Honors

AP Pre-Calculus

Grade 12 Requirements and Electives 

 

Career Life Connections, English Studies 12, Literacy 12 (assessment) are required. The following are electives courses. 

Vocational

STEM

Advanced Placement

Active Living

Calculus

AP Calculus

Fitness & Conditioning

Physics

AP Physics C: Mechanics

Graphic Production

Chemistry

AP Chemistry

Film & Television

Statistics

AP Statistics

Contemporary Music

Anatomy and Physiology

AP Biology

Work Experience

Social Sciences

AP Research

AP 2-D Art & Design

Contemporary Indigenous Studies

AP Psychology

 

Economics

AP Macroeconomics

BC Numeracy and Literacy Results (2023)

 

The numeracy and literacy assessments are scored on a 4-point proficiency scale

2023 – 2024 Grade 12 Course Results

2024 AP Exam Results  

Four Year Matriculation History (2020-2023)

Australia

7 students

University of Sydney (3)

University of Melbourne

Australian National University

University of Queensland (2)

Canada

212 students

Concordia University

Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2)

McGill University (4)

McMaster University (15)

Ontario College of Art and Design (2)

Queen’s University (17)

Sheridan College (3)

Simon Fraser University

University of Alberta (7)

University of British Columbia (45)

University of Toronto (87)

University of Waterloo (21)

Western University (7)

Other

3 students

Gobelins College, France

Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

United Kingdom

69 students

Durham University

Glasgow University of the Arts (2)

Imperial College London (2)

King's College London (8)

Loughborough University (2)

University College London (11)

University of Birmingham (3)

University of Bristol (3)

University of Edinburgh (7)

University of Leeds (2)

University of Manchester (10)

University of Sheffield (2)

University of Southampton

University of the Arts London (4)

University of Warwick (11)

Hong Kong

8 Students

Chinese University of Hong Kong (2)

University of Hong Kong (2)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (4)

 

 

USA

102 students

Bentley University

Boston College

Boston University (5)

Brandeis University (3)

Case Western Reserve University (5)

College of William & Mary

Cornell University

Emory University

George Washington University

New York University (6)

Ohio State University (5)

Penn State (4)

Purdue University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (3)

Rutgers University

Syracuse University

UNC Chapel Hill (2)

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis (4)

University of California, Riverside

University of California, San Diego (3)

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Denver (2)

University of Florida

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (7)

University of Maryland

University of Miami

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

University of Texas at Austin

University of Wisconsin-Madison (3)

University of Southern California

Vanderbilt University, USA

Wake Forest University

College of Arts and Sciences

Bucknell University

Emerson College (2)

Franklin Marshall College

Grinnell College (2)

Kenyon College

Macalester College

Smith College

University of Richmond

Wesleyan University

Art and Design Schools

Art Center School of Design

Art Institute of Chicago (1)

California Institute of the Arts

National Culinary Institute

New England Conservatory of Music

Parsons School of Design (3)

Pratt Institute of Art (2)

Rhode Island School of Design (3)

Ruilin College of Art and Design

School of Visual Arts, New York (2)

 

 

4 - Excellent

3 - Proficient

2 - Developing

1 - Emerging

Literacy 10

7.66% (BCA)

77.99% (BCA)

14.35% (BCA)

0.00% (BCA)

10.61% (BC)

58.40% (BC)

30.92% (BC)

6.43% (BC)

Numeracy

43.75% (BCA)

50.00 % (BCA)

6.25% (BCA)

.00% (BCA)

9.77% (BC)

39.14% (BC)

35.416% (BC)

15.26% (BC)

Literacy 12

2.13% (BCA)

78.72% (BCA)

19.15% (BCA)

0.00% (BCA)

17.61 (BC)

59.43% (BC)

20.74 % (BC)

1.93% (BC)

 

 

Subject

BCA

China

Global

 Calculus BC

4.77

3.77

2.77

 Chemistry

4.77

3.77

2.77

Computer Science Principles

4.77

3.77

2.77

 Statistics

4.77

3.77

2.77

 Biology

4.77

3.77

2.77

 Research

4.77

3.77

2.77

 Psychology

4.77

3.77

2.77

Microeconomics

4.77

3.77

2.77

Macroeconomics

4.77

3.77

2.77

AP Seminar

4.77

3.77

2.77

Averall Scores