Mission Statement
Caravel Academy, a private college preparatory school, upholds traditional American values of honesty, personal integrity, and good sportsmanship in all activities. Our mission is to inspire students to develop a love of learning and empower them to become productive and self-sufficient citizens through effective and challenging instruction, extracurricular activities and a wide range of experiences in a safe and supportive community.
Core Values
Caravel Academy believes that:
Profile of a Graduate
A graduate of Caravel Academy Early Education will:
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Lower School will:
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Middle School will:
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Upper School will:
Caravel Academy, a private college preparatory school, upholds traditional American values of honesty, personal integrity, and good sportsmanship in all activities. Our mission is to inspire students to develop a love of learning and empower them to become productive and self-sufficient citizens through effective and challenging instruction, extracurricular activities and a wide range of experiences in a safe and supportive community.
Core Values
Caravel Academy believes that:
- As our community’s most valuable asset, all children have a right to learn in a safe, nurturing, and loving environment.
- Lifelong learning is essential for success in a changing society.
- Education is the shared responsibility of Caravel Academy, governing authority, student, the family, government, and stakeholders.
- A core of common values and ethical conduct and an appreciation of diversity are fundamental to sustaining our society.
- The primary responsibility of education is to assist each child in discovering and reaching his or her potential.
- An effective educational institution and its organizations purposefully provide for self-renewal through flexibility and a willingness to change.
- Recognizing that children learn at different rates and in different ways, effective education develops the whole person intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically.
- Effective education fosters honesty, good sportsmanship, and personal integrity.
Profile of a Graduate
A graduate of Caravel Academy Early Education will:
- Be a responsible classroom and school citizen who demonstrates the characteristics of Caravel Academy's Character Education program.
- Have a foundation of academic skills that will ready him/her for success in first grade.
- Show a love of learning evidenced by enthusiastic participation in structured and self-directed learning activities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and exhibit good sportsmanship.
- Respect and value others, their knowledge, experience, and ideas.
- Enjoy expressing themselves through participation in music, art, and physical education.
- Experience 21st century technology on a daily basis.
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Lower School will:
- Be a responsible classroom and school citizen and demonstrate individual responsibility, self-control, honesty, respect, personal integrity, and loyalty.
- Have a solid foundation of the basic skills in language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and 21st century technology.
- Be inspired to enjoy reading and be able to cite particular authors or genres. Apply basic organizational skills to manage assignments.
- Enjoy learning new things and applying this knowledge in new and different ways.
- Generate at least two alternatives in problem solving or decision making and evaluate the best choice.
- Set specific short-term personal and academic goals with teacher guidance.
- Respect and value others of all cultures and have a beginner’s oral knowledge of both Spanish and French.
- Appreciate the qualities of leadership and followership and practice both in appropriate situations.
- Value service to others and participate in indirect service opportunities
- Practice good sportsmanship in PE class, at recess, and in classroom competitive situations.
- Find value and opportunities for personal expression and/or enjoyment in music, art, and physical activity.
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Middle School will:
- Be a responsible classroom and school citizen and demonstrate individual responsibility, self-control, honesty, respect, personal integrity, and loyalty.
- Apply increasingly sophisticated language arts, mathematics, and 21st century technological skills and knowledge to learning in other content areas.
- Recognize the need for flexible thinking and lifelong learning in approaching school and life situations.
- Apply organizational and time management skills to manage multiple classes and assignments and some extracurricular activities.
- Maintain a love of learning, often most intensely directed to “specialized” talent/interest areas.
- Generate a number of viable alternatives and evaluate choices effectively in problem solving/decision making.
- Set short- and long-term academic and personal goals.
- Understand his/her learning style and utilize this knowledge effectively.
- Assume leadership positions in formal or informal learning experiences.
- Participate in and value both indirect and direct service to others in the school or wider community.
- Practice good sportsmanship in all activities whether as a participant or spectator.
- Appreciate the value of the arts and a healthy lifestyle in personal and societal enrichment.
A graduate of the Caravel Academy Upper School will:
- Successfully meet the challenges of college and negotiate life equipped with the abilities to communicate, critically evaluate, and thrive in an ever-changing society.
- Be proficient in 21st century technological skills in preparation for responsible digital citizenship in a global society.
- Be a thoughtful and effective decision maker by recognizing and appreciating his/her personal strengths and weaknesses, setting and achieving realistic goals, and respecting the differences in himself/herself and others.
- Understand and appreciate the history and tradition of our society and government while using this knowledge to act responsibly as an informed citizen.
- Demonstrate traditional American values of honesty, respect, personal integrity, and loyalty.
- Display the characteristics of leadership, service to the community, good sportsmanship, and involvement as an active alumnus while exemplifying individual responsibility, a lifelong love of learning, and an appreciation of the arts to positively affect the worlds he/she encounters.