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Our Motto: Perkiomen School's motto is Solvitur vivendo (it is solved by living). We believe that experience is the best teacher and that modern life challenges are only solved through engaged and thoughtful living. Perkiomen School offers an outstanding college preparatory education—from a middle school experience that nurtures independent inquiry to the latest instructional technology applied in innovative ways. At Perkiomen, we believe that to learn and grow into responsible citizens of the world requires a certain kind of risk, a willingness to face new challenges. Take Mandarin Chinese, try out for a sport you have never played before, or make yourself at home i…
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Oaklawn Academy is an international boarding school that strives to provide the most appropriate environment: facilities, programs, and personnel, for the Integral Formation of young men as Christian leaders. Our education is rooted in the living Catholic tradition of academic excellence, personal integrity, high moral standards, and a spirit of service to others. It aims to offer each student the key to his happiness and fulfillment in this life and the next, and it provides him with the means to be an active agent for improvement in whatever walk of life he chooses. Oaklawn Academy implements the Integral Formation method of education. Based upon the Christian…
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Deciding where to send your child for his or her education can be a challenge. Our goal is to provide you with an accurate view of what the Parker School option is all about. The Parker experience is designed to prepare students for college and life in an environment where they feel accepted and supported. Our faculty has worked hard to create an effective integrated curriculum. This integration works vertically, where students progress smoothly in a particular subject from one year to the next. It also works horizontally, where the subjects that a student encounters in a particular year have been designed to fit together in a complementary way. We expect our graduates …
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Founded in 1967, Oakland School is a small K-8 co-ed boarding and day school specializing in language-based learning and attention issues. Because of our size, we can tailor an academic program unique to each child's strengths and challenges. Students graduate from Oakland with a newfound love of learning, a sense of self-worth, and respect for themselves and others. 25 to 40 boarding and day students year-round, Up to 110 campers each summer, Specialist in Dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD/ADD, and executive functioning issues. Learning differences are pervasive. One in five kids has learning or attention issues, with the most prevalent being language-based. This can …
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Our educational environment is learner-centered values-rich, proudly steeped in our Episcopal identity service-oriented and bold and fearless when considering new possibilities. Inspired by our values of Wisdom, Honor, and Service, Parish Episcopal School's inclusive Episcopal community's mission is to guide young people to become creative learners and bold leaders prepared to impact a complex global society. In our vision to Reimagine School, we are evolving how students learn and succeed by realizing and fostering their passions in a warm and joyful learning environment. Parish is committed to redefining the high-quality college preparatory experience and engaging …
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Oak Ridge Military Academy is a unique community of caring educators and mentors who come alongside youth to help them meet their needs and build them into successful student leaders. ORMA creates an environment that fosters sound values, encourages learning, and provides opportunities to practice positive influence today so they will shape cultures tomorrow. This vision is rooted in the belief that Character, Knowledge, and Influence are the building blocks of Leadership. The Oak Ridge experience begins with adult mentors in and out of the classroom who are experienced leaders, caring for each child. Character is shaped through the positive peer pressure of Cadet Leade…
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Oak Knoll's mission since its founding in 1924 has been to cultivate intellectual, spiritual, physical, and emotional development in all of our students. Students, along with their families, experience academic programs that encourage excellence in each student, a strong faith commitment, respect and reverence for each person, freedom of expression through the creative arts, a competitive athletic program, and active involvement in campus ministry opportunities that expand their understanding for the global world in which they live. Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child, Judeo-Christian in heritage, Roman Catholic in teaching and worship, is an independent school for bo…
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Since 1878, Oak Hill Academy has transformed the lives of generations of students. In the heart of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, our small, co-ed, college-preparatory boarding school combines structure with self-reliance, discipline with discovery, and a guiding hand with a warm heart. Our curriculum challenges the brightest students and encourages those who may feel less motivated or experiencing difficulty in their current school setting. Our structured and relational environment provides an opportunity for students to redefine themselves in very positive ways. In the mid-1800s, members of small Baptist churches in Ashe County, North Carolina, and Grayson County…
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For forty-seven years, Oak Hall School has been committed to providing students with a learning environment that is physically safe and emotionally supportive, where intelligence and compassion are highly valued, and where close relationships between students and teachers are encouraged. Under the guidance of an outstanding faculty, Oak Hall students across all grade levels engage in an intellectually dynamic and challenging academic program complemented by a host of co-curricular offerings, providing opportunities for them to explore their interests and talents to the fullest. At Oak Hall, students play an active role in their learning. We are a school whose br…
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Oak Grove School is a Preschool through 12th-grade progressive day and boarding school in Ojai, California. The mission of Oak Grove School is to assist students in developing those qualities of mind, heart, and body that will enable them to function with excellence, care, and responsibility in the modern world. Also, it is the school's intention to offer a place where the whole community can inquire together into the perennial questions of humankind and explore an approach to life that is whole, mindful, and intelligent. Oak Grove fosters an environment where students are encouraged to ask deep questions that flower from the truth within. The expansive 150-acre wooded …
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NSU University School is one of the only schools in the state of Florida that is located on the campus of a leading research university, affording our students unprecedented access to college-level resources and opportunities. At NSU University School, the classroom is our cornerstone, but we recognize that proper development takes a combination of academics, arts, athletics, and community service. By allowing our students to focus on their talents and strengths, we can bring out the best in them today - and well into the future. School students are an impressive group—confident, excited about learning, and creative in so many different ways. That is because they do not…
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Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy provide its diverse student body a Catholic and internationally recognized college-preparatory experience of lasting value. We affirm our Marist mission to "Work with God to form Christian People, Upright Citizens, and Academic Scholars." At Notre Dame, our goal is to create a safe learning environment where students can become the best versions of themselves both academically and spiritually. We also offer world-ranked robotics teams, an exemplary athletic program, and a burgeoning performing and visual arts program. In short, we strive to create well-balanced students prepared for life. If you choose Notre Dame for yo…
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Founded in 1873 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a teaching order from Germany, Notre Dame Preparatory School is one of Baltimore's oldest Catholic college preparatory schools for girls. The school's original mission, to foster academic excellence, spiritual growth, and social justice practice in its students, has inspired more than 6,000 living alumnae and continues to inspire the approximately 800 girls currently enrolled in grades 6-12. Notre Dame Preparatory School educates and empowers girls to become women who transform the world. As a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for girls in grades 6 through 12, Notre Dame Prep inspires students to pu…
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Notre Dame High School is a private, Catholic secondary school. Founded by Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1947, Notre Dame has been co-educational since 1983. Located in Sherman Oaks, CA, Notre Dame has a diverse community with students from varied cultural and economic backgrounds. Notre Dame High School, a Catholic, college preparatory school in the Holy Cross tradition, educates students' hearts and minds who are diverse in talent, ethnicity, and society. As a faith community, Notre Dame strives to provide each student with a rich academic background, an appropriate sense of self, an opportunity for growth, a commitment to family, community, nation,…
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Northwood School is a coeducational, independent boarding school in Lake Placid, New York, offering a trimester-based college preparatory curriculum for students in grades 9 through 12, plus a post-graduate year. Northwood's student body comprises 190 students from around the United States and the world, 85% of whom live on campus. The school boasts a student to faculty ratio of 5:1, with an average class size of 10 students. In addition to its traditional college-prep curriculum, Northwood offers several Signature Academic Programs such as the L.E.A.P. program, an Entrepreneurship course, and an Innovation + Design program. Beyond the classroom, Northwood offers students…
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Northridge offers a rigorous liberal arts curriculum focused on educating the whole person. Our students learn not only their subjects; they learn how to work hard, think critically, and develop a spirit of adventure. And they learn how to care for others and appreciate the beauty and goodness of creation. Our graduates score impressive results on AP exams and standardized tests, and many go on to the top universities in the country. Our mission is to develop men of great character, the type of men you would want your daughter to marry, who have the professional competence to become leaders in society, and who love God and their faith. Built upon the foundation of a lib…
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There are plenty of schools that teach "subjects." Not many teach students to love learning. At Northfield Mount Hermon, we do. We want students to think about fun. Indulge their curiosity. Collaborate, and innovate. We want them to develop the kinds of creative minds they'll need to thrive in the 21st century. We're proud to offer a balanced, multidimensional learning and living experience — a purposeful education that prepares students for today's world. And tomorrow's. Purposeful education has three main elements: knowledge, opportunities, and citizenship. Through our distinctive College-Model Academic Program (CMAP), we help students develop knowledge about the w…
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We believe in educating our children, not merely schooling them. Our school is where thinking, analyzing, imagining, and creating are encouraged, nurtured, and rewarded. We do not want our students to learn merely for the sake of passing a test. We want them to develop intellectual curiosity and the skills with which to satisfy it. We know that learning begins with questions; we teach our students how to make productive inquiries. We are committed to providing the best education we can for all the children we admit. That involves identifying an individual child's optimum learning style and providing those experiences for him or her that will affect maximum intellectual,…
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Founded in 1958 in Atlanta, Ga., Pace Academy is a co-educational, college-preparatory day school serving 1,115 students in grades Pre-First through 12. We strive to create prepared, confident citizens of the world through rigorous academic experiences, innovative global leadership programs, character education, and close student-teacher relationships. We start small and THINK BIG. Our college-placement success and other statistics rank Pace among the nation's finest schools. Our athletics and arts programs are second-to-none, and we are creating innovators in the classroom and around the world. But what truly matters at Pace are the relationships created here—the da…
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The Pacifica student body is a group that is committed to growth and to being changed. This happens through academic rigor and personal relationship. Pacifica’s college preparatory curriculum challenges students to think, write, and speak with greater depth and skill. The study of a four-year liberal arts curriculum lets students learn more about themselves, the world they live in, the Truth of God, and their place in the world. No one is anonymous at Pacifica. Students are known. Strengths are celebrated, and areas of growth are examined and worked on. The teaching staff at Pacifica is highly relational and intends to be involved in the lives of its students and tea…
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The Packer Collegiate Institute is an independent, co-educational PreK-12 school in beautiful Brooklyn Heights, one subway stop from Lower Manhattan. Established on Joralemon Street in 1845, our school is located on a unique and historic campus. The Packer Early Learning Center, one block away at 100 Clinton Street, houses our Pre-K and Kindergarten classes. Packer's dynamic curriculum is shaped by enormously talented educators who put students at the center of their own learning experience. Our mission is the foundation of the Packer experience. Think Deeply, Speak Confidently, Act with Purpose and Heart. As a community, we regularly discuss these words' profound me…
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At Pacific Ridge School, our mission statement guides everything that we do. Its pillars - academic excellence, ethical Responsibility, and global engagement - support our academic program, as well as the vast number of co-curricular offerings, extra-curricular activities, and opportunities our students explore. Its aims - preparation for college and purposeful life - are realized by students who come to understand that learning is a joyful, life-long pursuit and that the world contains many kinds of classrooms. At the heart of Pacific Ridge School are the multi-faceted interactions between our students, peers, and teachers. This is a community designed to give its memb…
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Oxford Academy is an independent boys boarding school established in 1906 to educate young men seeking an alternative to the traditional classroom approach. In Oxford's one-to-one classroom, each student benefits from his teacher's undivided attention. Through the Oxford Method of Individualized Instruction, our students gain self-confidence, attain academic success, and prepare for the future. For over 100 years, this method has positively impacted the lives of a wide variety of students. While most Oxford students come from the United States, many (up to 30 percent) are international students representing some 20 countries over the past several years. Our goal is to a…
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Ozark Adventist Academy is a Christian co-educational college preparatory boarding school dedicated to educational excellence in a Christ-centered environment. Located in the foothills of the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas, this Seventh-day Adventist boarding high school offers a warm, friendly, and inviting atmosphere. It is owned and operated by the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is fully accredited with the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities and is a Non-Accredited Associate Member of the Arkansas Nonpublic Schools Accrediting Association. Choosing Ozark Adventist Academy …
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Founded in 1923 by the Dominican Sisters, Our Lady of the Elms is the ONLY all-girls Grades 1-12 school in the Cleveland Diocese. The value of all-girls cannot be shared in a sentence or a moment. Our girls learn in a unique environment with a solid foundation based on the four Dominican pillars of community, teaching, prayer, and service. Girls learn best in small class sizes where teachers meet each child's needs. We foster positive learning environments by looping teachers in the Primary grades, providing hands-on learning opportunities in the Middle School, and offering rigorous academics in the High School. Elms girls boldly discover their way as confident, creative,…
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