Every student can learn. Every student can succeed.
Orinda Academy is a college preparatory school for students in grades 8-12. Our personalized approach to learning ensures that our rigorous curriculum is accessible to all students, including those who learn differently.
Our bright and creative students thrive in our nurturing, small class environment. Teachers at Orinda Academy tailor their teaching to each student. Combined with academic support, executive functioning skill development, and social/emotional balance every student reaches their full potential.
Our Mission
To provide a safe, inclusive community that encourages bright young people to be themselves while building character, intellect, and creativity.
Our Focus
Our expected schoolwide learning results are neatly summarized as ECHO. Our students will become:
- Effective Communicators
- Critical Thinkers
- Healthy, Active Members of the Community
- Organized People
What we do best
Orinda Academy provides a dynamic setting for our students to emulate the ECHO skills:
- We provide college preparatory curriculum that closes the achievement gap
- We encourage enrichment through arts, athletics, and STEM activities
- We foster first name student-teacher relationships and one-on-one interactions
- We develop students’ ethical values, independence, self-advocacy, and sense of social and environmental responsibility
- We bring together a diverse student body with a multitude of talents
- We promote connection, collaboration, and communication among parents, students, teachers, and support specialists
- We support the whole student by working closely with outside tutors, therapists, and specialists to ensure student success