To offer many opportunities for students to develop a diversity of interests by participating in school government, clubs, service to others, athletics, and cultural programs.

To develop responsible citizens by providing leadership training and opportunities for participation in such community activities as government, business, and social services.

To make wise use of such community resources as other educational institutions, libraries, museums, athletic facilities, and cultural programs as well as wise use of its own natural resources.

To make our school an integral part of the community by sharing school facilities, resources, activities, and human skills with other organizations.

To create an awareness within the community of admission policies, scholarship aid, and the financial needs of the school as well as its educational objectives.

To maintain open communication within the school family, including students, parents, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and friends.
 

To prepare students academically for college and adult life by fostering an atmosphere in which learning is seen as its own reward, by encouraging all students to do their best work, and by helping students decide their specific academic interests through exposing them to a variety of disciplines.

To recognize and to provide for individual differences in learning rates and academic interests wherever possible within the framework of our school.

To maintain and to improve basic skills in listening, reading, oral and written expression, computation, and critical observation.

To help students to learn organizational skills and good study habits, to develop skills in reasoning and in critical and creative thinking, and to train them in research methods and in the use and value of resource materials.

To emphasize the importance of oral communication and to encourage and assist students in acquiring these skills.

To recognize the value of traditional teaching methods as well as the necessity for judicious experimentation with the new.

To incorporate into the curriculum sequential teaching materials, a variety of learning media, and community and global resources including current developments in technology.

To evaluate individual student progress through the use of quizzes, tests, examinations, and national standardized tests and through student-teacher consultations, frequent comment slips, and parent-teacher conferences.

To maintain small classes so that individual attention can be available to all students.

To challenge and to stimulate talented students by providing opportunities for independent study and individualized programs outside the structure of the formal curriculum.