Academics

Whitfield offers an experiential, foundational liberal arts curriculum that marries college preparatory courses with an emphasis on citizenship, critical thinking, and leadership.

The way things have been done may not prepare children for a future the likes of which we have never seen. And one single way of teaching can't cultivate the kind of extraordinary dexterity that develops when each young mind works with thinkers of all kinds, learns in myriad ways, and turns in many directions: Reading and listening, of course. But also doing, making seeing, feeling, sensing. Experiencing. 

At Whitfield, we believe that the future of rigor will be anything but rigid, and that real academic excellence fosters the agility, adaptability, resilience, and risk tolerance that today's students--and tomorrow's world-- require. It's the experience that counts.