Academics
Academics at The Phelps School
The Phelps School’s academics provide a highly personalized learning experience, fostering intellectual growth and critical thinking through small class sizes, which ensure individualized attention from dedicated teachers. This nurturing environment, coupled with the Academic Support Program (ASP), supports boarding school students with tailored learning plans and helping them build confidence and self-reliance. The Phelps Method emphasizes relational learning, enabling teachers to address each student’s unique needs, creating a structured yet supportive setting that promotes academic and personal success.
Highlighted Courses
British Literature
This overview of genres covers six essential literary periods: Medieval, Renaissance, 17th & 18th Centuries, Romantic, Victorian, and The Modern Era. Emphasis is on essay writing, beginning with the college essay and moving through various rhetorical modes, as well as continued vocabulary building, note taking, and development of more sophisticated composition style.
Anatomy
Anatomy and Physiology is a study of the structure and function of the human body. This course involves laboratory activities, projects, dissections, textbook materials, models, diagrams, journal writings, and clinical studies. Laboratory experiences and text-based activities provide student learning in body functions in healthy and diseased states; blood typing; muscle action; cranial nerve functioning; and bioethics.
Introduction to Computer Science with Python
Coding has joined reading and writing as a cornerstone skill that all successful students should have a basic education in. Starting in tenth grade, any student can enroll in our introductory course that challenges students to learn how to program functions and loops with a variety of data types in Python.
