Welcome to a glimpse of Summit School. As you navigate our web site, we hope you see that Summit is a place that focuses on the positive development of students. Our challenge is to share with you the flavor of the school we call home, so we encourage you to peruse our offerings and imagine what life is like as we learn together with our students.

Above all Summit is about students. We do not take for granted the opportunity of being with young people for an eleven-year educational journey. The inquisitive, joyful four-year-old we welcome in junior kindergarten spends productive years facing academic challenges, learning moral truths, exploring the arts, extending physical strength, cultivating peer and adult relationships, and serving the community before graduating as a confident, eager ninth grader. During these learning years students are supported by adults who guide, facilitate, nudge, and share what is important to them.

Summit is about teachers who enjoy the daily mission of challenging and caring for every child every day. Challenging includes knowing the strengths and potential of students and inviting them in as many ways as possible to accomplish important tasks and goals. Caring includes providing an environment where students feel appreciated, valued and secure. Summit teachers take their calling seriously, but they laugh a lot. Learning, though difficult at times, is rewarding and joyful; thus even the most casual observers note the happy atmosphere that abounds in all areas of the school. A day at Summit lifts the spirit, even on the gloomiest Monday.

Summit is about families. Our admission policy that gives first consideration to siblings assures that we get to know parents and grandparents throughout the learning journey. Families support us in many ways – financially, volunteering for myriad tasks, providing positive role models for students, forming important networks whose purpose is to share ideas about children, calling our attention to areas that might be improved. Summit families expect to be involved in many aspects of school life and their involvement makes us a better place.

Summit is about growing – minds, hearts, perspectives, bodies, talents, opportunities. Students and teachers grow daily and because they do, Summit remains a growing place. We are lucky indeed to be in a place called Summit.

Sandra Adams