The HHS IB program offers students a superlative education with a proven history of high performance results. Because we are an IB World School, we are bound to the quality control processes of planning, instruction, assessment and reflection, and periodic review that are the bases of educational best practice. Our students are accepted to the top colleges in the state and the country and continue on into careers that are making a difference.
If you are a current student in HCPS, please go here for the online application: http://henricoschools.us/specialty-centers/ .It will be available on November 15, 2020. Make sure you contact your school counselor for more information and for school internal deadlines. The final deadline for online submission is January 10, 2022, 11:59 PM. Students also have the option of a third recommendation from outside the system or an additional teacher. The recommender should follow directions on the form for submission. The form is here: OptionalTeacher-Recommendation.
If you are a private school student or are coming to us from out of district/state, please use the paper application you can find here: SpecialtyCenterApplication You can find more information about HCPS specialty centers here: http://henricoschools.us/specialty-centers/. Private school or out of district students must also take the standardized and writing tests HCPS students have taken in school. To sign up for these tests, please go to the above site. Registration begins November 15, 2021.
International Baccalaureate Online Application NOTE: If you are a Henrico County Public School eighth grader interested in applying to the IB Programs at Henrico and/or Tucker High Schools, please note that you must apply to either or to both sites, depending on your preference. Each application will be evaluated independently by each school, and the applicant will receive a separate status response from each of them. Should the student be accepted by both schools, the student will have the opportunity to select his/her preference. If a student is accepted to one IB site but not the other, the status is not transferrable.
How can you learn more?
- Center directors will visit middle schools in September – November
- Open Houses. HHS is 11/1 at 7 PM
We invite you to either continue your IB journey if you attend Fairfield, Moody or Tuckahoe MS or start a great educational journey in IB with us! Due to the Covid mitigation measures, we cannot at this time offer any shadowing, visitation or tours.
Notification of acceptance will be online via the application portal on March 11, 2022, at 4:30. Students will be designated “Selected,” “Not selected,” or “Wait-listed.” Students may choose to accept ONE school and remain on ONE wait-list. Students who are not accepted at any school may stay on two wait lists. The deadline for these commitments, which must be done online, is Friday, March 25, 2022, by 11:59 PM. Students on wait-lists have until April 1, 2022, to accept an offer from a wait-list to full acceptance.
On Friday, March 11, accepted students will receive an email from HHS with the acceptance packet of information attached: acceptance commitment form, course schedule request form, and transportation information sheet. Wait list students will also receive an email with a commitment form. All private school wait-list students will receive the wait-list commitment form.
If you need the forms sent to you via email, they are here: (TBA)
All students who are coming from HCPS schools are automatically registered at HHS upon your acceptance. If you are new the the county, however, because you have attended a private school or are coming from out of district, you will need to register. Here is what you will need to do and how to do it: REGISTRATION Checklist 2018
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Biddle at 228-2745 or plbiddle@henrico.k12.va.us.