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Every student can learn. Every student can succeed.

Orinda Academy is an independent high school in the East Bay. 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.

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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
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Orinda Academy

19 Altarinda Road, Orinda, CA 94563
P: (925) 254-7553 F: (925) 254-4768
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Serving: Bay Area, East Bay, North Bay, Contra Costa County, Berkeley, Concord, Fairfield, Hayward, Oakland, Orinda, Lafayette, Vallejo, Walnut Creek California.

Orinda Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Federal tax ID 94-2692929.

Orinda Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender identification, sexual identification, or family composition in the administration of its policies, procedures, or admissions process.