At Beacon, high ability students are given the opportunity to experience challenge, develop their talents, and achieve excellence. By emphasizing both acceleration and enrichment, Beacon enables advanced learners to continue to grow, follow their passions, and find inspiration in their educations. When high ability students encounter artificial ceilings and repetitive curriculum in school, the result is boredom, loss of interest, and underachievement. We believe that when these barriers are removed, students can truly realize their unique gifts.
Beacon’s advanced learners thrive in an individualized setting where self-directed inquiry is encouraged and personal excellence is celebrated. Our lower school students enrich their challenging course of study with a number of electives, including foreign language, computer science, music theory, lab science, and art history. Middle school students are introduced to high level material so that they can build study skills, strengthen thinking skills, and master advanced content that will benefit them in their future studies. In the upper school, students have the opportunity to go beyond AP and tackle college-level courses in a variety of subjects. Their academic programs may also incorporate internships and other real-world learning experiences that give them the tools they need to be successful in life. In all grades, our goal is to improve thinking skills, increase creative thinking, and inspire perseverance.
Because we understand that gifted achievement goes beyond academics, we also seek out and develop students with high ability in the visual and performing arts, technology, leadership, and invention. We offer a menu of enrichment and acceleration opportunities across the disciplines. When students have a hand in designing their own course of study, there’s no limit to what they can achieve in their fields of interest.
