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GSHS
Grades 11 and 12

Senior High School

Goa Science High School offers the Academic Track of the Strengthened Senior High School curriculum. Every learner carries the same five core subjects, then builds an elective load from the three clusters the school runs — STEM, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Field Experience.

What Changed

Strands are gone

The Department of Education replaced the four senior high tracks with two — Academic and Technical-Professional — and dropped strands in favour of elective clusters. GSHS offers the Academic Track. The change reaches each year level on its own schedule.

  1. SY 2026–2027

    Grade 11 starts the strengthened curriculum

    Incoming Grade 11 learners enrol under the Academic Track with five core subjects and elective clusters. There is no strand to choose at enrolment.

  2. SY 2026–2027

    Grade 12 finishes the old curriculum

    Learners already in Grade 12 stay on the strand they began under — STEM, ABM, or HUMSS — and graduate under it. Their subject load does not change.

  3. SY 2027–2028

    Both year levels on one curriculum

    The last strand cohort has graduated and Grades 11 and 12 both run the strengthened curriculum end to end.

Taken by everyone

Core subjects

Fifteen core subjects were cut to five learning areas, each carrying 160 hours in Grade 11. Fewer subjects, more time in each.

  • 160 hours

    Effective Communication and Mabisang Komunikasyon

    Reading, writing, and speaking for academic and workplace purposes, carried in both English and Filipino.

  • 160 hours

    General Mathematics

    The mathematics every pathway needs before its own advanced electives.

  • 160 hours

    General Science

    Integrated physical and life science, taught with laboratory hours attached.

  • 160 hours

    Life and Career Skills

    Financial literacy, digital citizenship, and the groundwork for a career plan.

  • 160 hours

    Pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan at Lipunang Pilipino

    Philippine history and society, read through primary sources.

Academic Track

Elective clusters

GSHS runs three of the five Academic Track clusters. Learners may also take electives outside their own cluster — the curriculum's doorway option — where the timetable allows it.

Cluster
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
The cluster the school was built around. Advanced mathematics, specialised sciences, and data analytics, with laboratory hours attached to every science elective.
  • Pre-calculus and calculus
  • Specialised chemistry, physics, and biology
  • Data analytics and computational thinking
  • Capstone research, defended before a faculty panel

Leads to
Engineering, medicine, allied health, and the natural sciences

Cluster
Business and Entrepreneurship
Accounting, marketing, and organisational management, taught around a student-run enterprise that has to open, trade, and close its books within Grade 12.
  • Fundamentals of accountancy
  • Applied economics and business mathematics
  • Marketing and organisational management
  • Enterprise project, from business plan to final audit

Leads to
Accountancy, business administration, economics, and management

Cluster
Field Experience
Optional in the Academic Track, and taken alongside a learner's main cluster rather than instead of it. Placements are arranged with partner institutions in and around Goa.
  • Apprenticeship with a partner laboratory, clinic, or firm
  • Extended research placement under a faculty adviser
  • Supervised community and outreach work
  • Portfolio and reflection, assessed at the end of the term

Leads to
Any cluster — it deepens the pathway a learner already chose

Ready to begin?

Call or email the school office to reach the registrar about admission for incoming Grade 7 and Grade 11, including requirements and schedules.

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