Chapin has consistently met and maintained state and national testing standards and is one of the few high schools to not be in the Priority Schools Division of EPISD. Chapin offers multiple Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Credit courses and it is also one of three schools in the EPISD to offer statewide dual credit courses via the Texas Virtual School Network. Beginning with the 2009–2010 school year Chapin began offering AP Art History and Music Theory through the distance learning classroom to other district high schools.