ACADEMICS

Windermere Preparatory School believes that self-knowledge is a key element of true knowledge. We seek to generate commitment, sense of adventure and independence in our children. This is accomplished by providing small classes, individualized attention, continuous emphasis on children to stretch individual limits, exposure to different theoretical and practical aspects of life, and development of a self-reliant and self-confident individual.

Because of the impact on student development, we are committed to providing extraordinarily talented teachers whose field of expertise supports the academic and social needs of each student. Our unprecedented demand on the highest levels of professionalism is achieved through the respect and elevated status of our teachers.

The foremost goal of Windermere Preparatory School is the evolution of students as Renaissance People who are skilled and well versed in the arts and sciences, and who are competitive in the most selective of colleges nationally and abroad. Our full and enriched liberal arts curriculum is centered on these four areas: personal, cultural, intellectual, and technological and has been seamlessly developed to be articulated across all subjects and across all grade levels. Our ten areas of study are Language Arts & Literature, Mathematics & Logic, History & the Social Sciences, Science, Foreign Language, Computer Technology, Fine Arts, Philosophy, & Humanities, Life Skills/Community Service, and Physical Education/Health.

At Windermere Preparatory School, we seek to graduate young men and women who possess the capacity to create new things, new experiences, new ideas; who can discover the truth for themselves; who possess useful knowledge; and who know the ways of the human heart.

Grade levels are grouped into Forms, which mark the passage from one critical stage in student development to another. The transition from one Form to the next is celebrated through traditional ceremony, or Rites of Passage. Within each Form are grades that are intentionally grouped together for academic, developmental, and social reasons.