Parkmont School

About

Change the Course of Your Child's Future. Grades 6-12 Ron McClain, Head of School www.parkmont.org

Story

Parkmont is an intentionally small school for grades 6 through 12 (founded in 1972 as Washington’s only unique middle school, then adding high school when we merged with Somerset School in 1991.) We have our own original, progressive approach to engaging students in the endeavor of getting educated and being prepared for high school, college, and life beyond. Our students work in small classes of 6-10 kids in multi-grade classes that rely on a blend of classroom work, real life experiences, travel and technology — a diversity of traditional and non-traditional classrooms to augment our home campus on 16th street. There are three major components to our program: 1) a streamlined academic structure that emphasizes hands-on learning; 2) comprehensive academic support services; and 3) an expansive, thoughtful, and well-supervised internship program.

Mission

How do we help adolescents develop the confidence and skills they need to move ahead energetically with their lives?


At Parkmont we build a community where they ally themselves with creative adults whose driving concern is their success and well-being. We challenge them with an academic program that fuses adolescent interests with traditional disciplines and respects the variety of their talents and motivation. We provide them with substantial experience in the world beyond school that invites them to see more clearly the possibilities ahead.


They get ready to chart their own course; we make sure they’re prepared for the journey.