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A joyful community of learners where each child can flourish.
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We celebrate 25 years and a new home!
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Go Rockbridge! Our faculty and staff gather around our very own gym floor!
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Rockbridge in numbers, but there is so much more than this!
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Pirates of Penzance! Our musical was quite a production!
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Etiquette, kindness, and serving others are all taught early in kindergarten. Teddy Bear Tea Party pictured here.
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Field trips, festivals, and feasts outside the classroom bring history to life.
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Each rising senior class attends the 18-day capstone trip through Greece and Italy, a culmination of their studies.
What does an educational model from 500 hundred years ago have to do with a 1349 average SAT score today, an 18-day capstone trip through Greece and Italy, a 25-year anniversary, and new building?
Answer: Rockbridge Academy! We are a classical Christian school right here in the heart of Anne Arundel County. In 1995 a small group of like-minded families were looking for a more integrated, systematic, and biblical education for their children. They returned to the roots of classical methodology that teaches to a child’s developmental stages, capitalizing on a young child’s memory in the Grammar Stage (K-6th grade), developing critical thinking in adolescents through Socratic discussion in the Dialectic Stage (7th-9th grades), and honing communication skills in the teen years, to finally form winsome, thinking, graduates in the Rhetoric Stage (10th-12th grades). The ancients called this system the Trivium, or “three ways.”
What’s the secret to the success?
Answer: The old adage, “There’s no school like the old school,” might be right. The results of applying such a model are humbling. Our students are not necessarily “gifted and talented,” yet they rank among the highest-scoring students across all measures of standardized testing among all private and public schools across the state and country. But more important than the numbers, students at Rockbridge Academy develop an appreciation for the enduring and objective virtues of truth, goodness, and beauty, respect for the image of God in all people, and a reverence for Christ as Lord of all knowledge.
What about this trip to Greece and Italy?
Answer: There are many unique things that students at Rockbridge Academy experience both inside and outside the classroom that foster the growth and maturity of the whole person. Feasts, field trips, and festivals complement their classroom learning and build toward a capstone 18-day educational Grand Tour trip through Greece and Italy for rising seniors. Starting from kindergarten with simple training in etiquette to public speaking opportunities that culminate in Upper School soirée events and thesis projects, our students are well-prepared for academic and cultural pursuits of endless variety.
What else does Rockbridge Academy offer?
Answer: Rockbridge Academy offers the full complement of services you’d expect from a K-12 school: small class sizes, before and after care, college prep caliber academics, three seasons of athletics teams for middle school and varsity, and award winning choral, instrumental, and art programs. However, at the heart of our school is our community—a community of support in a joyful environment where each child can flourish. Our devoted teachers love God, love their students, and love learning. They have a desire for each child to succeed and grow in the unique ways they are gifted, and alongside parents, this community comes together to nurture each individual.
What is most exciting about a 25th year and a new campus?
Answer: As we kick off the 2019-2020 school year, our 25th year in operation, we make the historical leap of opening a campus of our own! With the purchase of a new home on Evergreen Road in Crownsville, MD, Rockbridge Academy embarks on the long-anticipated dream of seeing our K-12 school on one campus. What is most exciting about our future is now having the space to grow, to provide room for families to meet and enjoy being together, and to make a classical Christian education more accessible to more families in our area. We invite you to come see the exciting things happening at Rockbridge Academy!
