Auburn maintains a standard offering of typical academic core, foreign language, and basic career preparation courses, along with honors offerings for a small number of widely taken subjects. Most students who desire to take advanced or specialized classes feed in to Auburn's specialized programs described below:
The Gifted Academy program is the high school component of the Rockford Public Schools' Gifted Program for high-achieving students. The Gifted Academy program is selective, with admittance based on annual testing, and along with Marshall Elementary School and Thurgood Marshall School, which serve grades 1 through 4 and 5 through 8 respectively, forms the Gifted Program in Rockford.