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Academics

 

Our Three Core Strengths : 

  • A learning environment capable of providing tailored challenges to each boy.

  • Small classes with teachers that emphasize relational learning.

  • A diverse community that encourages students to learn in and outside of the classroom.

The Phelps Method

An educational paradigm focused on developing the whole person (mind, body, and spirit) while sustaining a young man’s need for:

Independence

Structure

Individual Achievement

Team-oriented 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.