The goal of the curriculum is to produce graduates who will be successful in their pursuit of higher education in specific subjects.

[1] Those that were in the first class attended classes in Stauffer Hall, a ten-story building no longer in existence,[2] then located at the Southeast corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Avenue) on the Temple University campus.

It was Dr. Garblik's belief that students should come to school dressed and act in a way that modeled real life in the business world.

[1] Five years later, a student made a call to the ACLU, who had the requirement that boys wear neckties withdrawn, explaining to the administration at the time that they were violating the Philadelphia Public Schools Charter.

[citation needed] The first year students enjoyed higher end classes learning advanced Chinese, physics and computer sciences.