It is a challenging time for parents and children. We parents want the best for our children, but aren’t sure what is best. While the world tells us that we must prepare them for the global economy, our instincts tell us that we must nurture their hearts and souls. The Excellence Academy believes education can do both. Excellence Academy students develop their minds, hearts, bodies and spirits in a supportive environment that encourages inquiry, stimulates curiosity, and embraces creativity.

From the three-year-old program to Upper School, The Excellence Academy is a community where "student-centered" learning is not empty rhetoric. Warm, joyful, open spaces abound. Art work is everywhere. Excellence Academy teachers are dedicated, talented, and love to teach. Attention to individual needs and involvement of each child’s family are central to the our tradition. At the Excellence Academy academic rigor is not grim, for true learning is inherently flexible, individual, spontaneous, and thoroughly engaging. Standardized tests are one measure of a successful school, and our students achieve at a high level. But how do you measure imagination and compassion? How do you quantify creativity and a sense of justice? How do you sustain the insatiable curiosity with which all children are born? At the Excellence Academy we believe that all of these things are essential ingredients of a quality education.