Dorm Life
Our residence dorm truly becomes a home away from home for the ABC scholars. Students are assigned to either a double or single room on the second and third floors of the dorm and share a bathroom (located on each floor). Three resident assistants also live on the floors with the students. Students are encouraged to arrange and decorate their own rooms as they please but are also required to keep their rooms and the hallways neat and clutter-free. The students are allowed to utilize the common rooms at their leisure although there is no television viewing allowed during the school week.
The resident director lives in a three bedroom apartment attached to the main house and easily accessible through the student dining room.
Supervision: Students are supervised at all times by one or more resident assistants or the resident director, who rotate on-duty hours throughout the week. Students are required to sign out when leaving the house for non-academic activities.
Meals: Students are required to attend family-style dinners each school night with the resident director and other students. Students are responsible for their own breakfasts and for meals on the weekends. The ABC program stocks the kitchen with foodstuffs requested by the girls and students are always allowed to use the kitchen to prepare snacks or dinner should they miss a meal for any reason.
Visitors: Students are encouraged to bring their friends to the house. Guests of the opposite sex are allowed in the common rooms only. Students must inform an RD or RA of guests.
School days at ABC are very busy. Students are out of the house and heading to the bus by 6:45. Afternoons and evenings are filled with activities and study, with opportunities to relax, to catch up with housemates, and to share the day's happenings over family style dinner.
7:00 Students catch the bus at a local middle school approximately three blocks from the ABC dorm
7:45 First class begins at the high school
2:05 Last class ends
2:05-5:00. Scholars are expected to participate in either an athletic sport or a combination of after school enrichment/club activities during this time.
5:30 Pre-dinner chores
6:00 Family style dinner
7:00-9:45 Mandatory study hours. Students work in the study room or their dorm room; resident assistants proctor (Hours on Sunday and Wed. are slightly different)
10:15 Curfew
10:45 Freshman and Sophomore lights- out
11:15 Junior and Senior lights- out (curfews are later on Friday and Saturday nights)
