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Ann Arbor Academy is dedicated to helping students with learning challenges build a foundation for academic and social success.
Our college preparatory curriculum and supportive social setting prepares students for the demands of higher education and the workplace.
Our strengths based approach provides an ideal environment for students to build academic skills, self confidence, and the foundation for life long learning.
Ann Arbor Academy is a member of the Learning Disabilities Association of Michigan, the International Dyslexia Association, Autism Society of Michigan, and Children and Adults with ADD (CHADD).
We are accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS).
Ann Arbor Academy is a private, co-educational, non-profit day school founded in 1997.
Academy students typcially have average to above average
intelligence, but many different learning styles. They often
come to us frustrated, confused and struggling academically.
The Academy provides a positive, nurturing environment in
which students feel accepted for who they are, and provides an
environment in which they are able to learn how to learn.
Our expert instruction is designed to target and build on student
strengths, while remediating weaker areas, leading to growth in
academic skills and self confidence. Students discover their best
learning style and are prepared for their next step, be that
college, a job, or a transfer back to a larger middle or high
school.
Instruction at Ann Arbor Academy is multisensory,
differentiated, and experiential. We do not assume that a
child is at a certain skill level because they are a certain age –
most of our students have not picked up essential skills in their
previous school, while some are gifted and have moved far beyond
what would be expected of someone at their grade level. Part
of what makes us different is that we recognize that the same
student may have both of these characteristics, in different areas
of academic and social functioning, and we differentiate the
student’s educational goals and the mode of delivery
accordingly.
Our emphasis on executive functioning - skills such as time
management, organization, working memory, etc., allows us to view
each child as an individual learner. Ann Arbor Academy's
approach is unique and flexible because we are able to determine
where in a continuum of skill level each student falls in terms of
these crucial skills for learning, and to help them work to their
full potential by differentiating the delivery and assessment of
the curriculum to build on student strengths and remediate relative
weaknesses.
Although teenagers with learning differences graduate from high
school less often than their same age peers, our graduation rate is
98% (including students who matriculate from the Academy as well as
students who were with us for at least two years of high school or
middle school and then transferred to a larger, often public, high
school). 85% of our students go to college, and those who do
not are linked up with state agencies that help students get a job
and develop a career, always with the goal of living as
independently as possible.
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The average private school tuition in Ann Arbor, MI is $17,062 for elementary schools and $19,320 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).
