Harding has five Small Learning Communities: Ninth Grade Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Human Services Academy, Medical and Environmental Studies Academy, and Science, Engineering and Industrial Technology Academy.

These Academies allow students the opportunity to develop a program of courses based on their interests and educational and career goals. As a school, we strive to increase academic achievement for all of our students.  Through the academy structure, teachers are developing schoool-wide procedures to address student academic interventions and are also initiating a school-wide SMART goal that involves improving student achievement in writing. 

Special Features:

• We are an International Baccalaureate (IB) school with forty-five staff members trained by IB.
  
  
• For the last twenty-three out of twenty-four years, our French students have been one of the top ten finalist in the National French Exam. One of the French students has always placed in the A Vous la Parole Statewide Oral Competition at the University of Minnesota.
  
  
• Our Graphic Arts program and students have won state and national awards. NJROTC consistently wins several awards in their region for academics and performances. Other programs of note are our American Indian Studies Program, and AVID.
  
  
• We have an advisory period called Foundations, which meets every morning for thirty minutes. Students stay with the same Foundations teacher for tenth through twelfth grade so that strong relationships between students and students, and staff and students are developed.  
  
  
• Over fifty staff members have received professional development training on Professional Learning Communities (PLC). Harding Professional Learning Communities will most often consist of  small groups of teachers who share similar course content within their departments.  Learning Team Facilitators serve as department leaders who assist with implementation efforts.