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  • Apr 02 08:00 AM:
    Good Friday Holiday: No Classes

  • Apr 05 08:00 AM:
    Easter Monday Holiday: No Classes

  • Apr 06 08:00 AM:
    Classes Resume: Normal Homeroom

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Overview

Our academic courses are rigorous and provide students with a strong foundation for their futures. Each course integrates spiritual lessons with the academic subject matter, enabling students to develop both morally and intellectually.

At the Academy, we have four criteria in planning our curriculum. With each of our courses we focus on providing our students with:

  1. A strong liberal arts foundation.
  2. Course material developed freely by individual teachers in accordance with our specific departmental goals.
  3. Subject matter that has spiritual as well as temporal implications.
  4. Studies that can be seen as useful in leading to a life of service to others in this world and the next.

What makes an ANC education exceptional?

Caring and attentive faculty and staff members. | Academic Advising

Safe and morally-focused learning environment. | Our Mission

Honors and Advanced Placement course offerings. | Honors and AP Courses

Distinctive Senior Project course. | Senior Project

A focus on leading a life of useful service to others. | Delta Mu Service Club

Academic Standards

Because we have an average class size of 15 students and an 8:1 student-teacher ratio, students receive significant individual attention. Each student has an academic advisor and access to our college and career counselor, our chaplain and pastoral staff, our independent personal counselor, and our in-school counselor.

For students seeking an academic challenge, we offer Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses in English, Mathematics, Science, History and Foreign Language. Our students consistently score well above the national average on AP tests (3 or above for 88%* of honors students) and our entrance test scores are consistently well above national averages. (SAT averages are consistently 125 points* above the national average, and SAT placement is in the 70th* percentile, compared to other college-bound seniors.)

“It won’t really matter if, ten years from now, you can factor a given polynomial or remember the definition of a specific vocabulary word; it will matter if you remember a teacher who cared about you and respected you and from whom you learned something about life.”

– Elizabeth Fuller, Assistant Head of the Girls School

In the past five years, our graduates have been admitted to colleges and universities such as: Agnes Scott, Babson, Bryn Athyn, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Clark, Cooper Union, Davidson, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Hawaii-Moana, James Madison, Lehigh, Mary Washington, Mount Holyoke, Muhlenburg, Northwestern, Olin, Penn State, Princeton, Richmond, Smith, St. Lawrence, Stevens Institute, Trinity, UNC-Chapel Hill, US Air Force Academy, USMA (West Point), USNA (Annapolis), Ursinus, Villanova, Virginia Tech, William & Mary, and Wilfred Laurier.

Full-time faculty members are expected to have a master's degree or to be working toward one. We provide for the ongoing professional development of our teachers, 70% of whom hold a master's degree or higher.

*Five-year average.