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Fostering Growth Through Academics
Archmere’s faith-based liberal arts program of studies challenges all students at College Preparatory, Honors, and Advanced Placement levels to advance their critical thinking, sharpen their academic skills, take ownership of their learning potential, and advocate for their own educational goals so that they can explore and discover new opportunities, experience success, and empower themselves and each other to reach new levels of personal and academic distinction.
Archmere takes particular pride in recognizing and serving various achievement levels among its students, all of whom seek the rigorous mix of challenge and success that suits their strengths across different disciplines. Success in Archmere’s demanding College Prep classes might lead students to advance to its Honors-level courses and later to AP-level classes. It is this flexibility that sets students up for success at Archmere and beyond.
Archmere takes particular pride in recognizing and serving various achievement levels among its students, all of whom seek the rigorous mix of challenge and success that suits their strengths across different disciplines. Success in Archmere’s demanding College Prep classes might lead students to advance to its Honors-level courses and later to AP-level classes. It is this flexibility that sets students up for success at Archmere and beyond.
Committed, Caring, Passionate Teachers
Archmere’s greatest asset is its faculty, an experienced, informed, compassionate group of women and men dedicated to their students’ academic growth, excellence, and integrity. Teachers across all disciplines build challenging curricula designed to expand critical thinking skills, stimulate intellectual curiosity, achieve content mastery, and establish academic discipline.
With an average class size of 15, teachers can engage students personally, guiding them to become organized, self-motivated, and ultimately, independent learners. Ready to support their students after class ends, faculty are accessible throughout the school day, before school, during unscheduled periods, and after school until 4:00 p.m.
Archmere faculty members are also actively engaged in students’ extracurricular lives: as academic advisers, mentors, club and organization moderators, and athletic coaches, they help students to live out Archmere’s mission and values—community, respect, zeal, reverence, and wisdom—beyond the classroom walls.
With an average class size of 15, teachers can engage students personally, guiding them to become organized, self-motivated, and ultimately, independent learners. Ready to support their students after class ends, faculty are accessible throughout the school day, before school, during unscheduled periods, and after school until 4:00 p.m.
Archmere faculty members are also actively engaged in students’ extracurricular lives: as academic advisers, mentors, club and organization moderators, and athletic coaches, they help students to live out Archmere’s mission and values—community, respect, zeal, reverence, and wisdom—beyond the classroom walls.
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Classroom News
List of 3 news stories.
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December 2024
Read MoreMastersingers Perform at Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular
On December 6, 2024, the Mastersingers traveled to Radio City Music Hall in New York to perform as the pre-show entertainment for the 7:00 pm show of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. They were invited in May after being recommended to Radio City Entertainment by Carnegie Hall after the Mastersingers 4th performance in Carnegie Hall, April of 2024.It was an amazing honor and experience to be invited to perform in one of the world's most famous venues. There were many parents and alumni in the audience of 6,000 who came to support the singers in their performance. -
November 2024
Read MoreNovember HRAI Student Recital
The Helena Raskob Arts Institute presented a general Student Recital on November 1, 2024. Participants in the HRAI include pianists, singers, string players, and harpists who study music with private teachers. New to the Institute this year are Jessica Li '28, piano; Alice Trainer '27, soprano; Tsion Mideska '26, Piano; and Kevin Gu '28, violin. Also featured were two of the Middle School Talent Expo award winners, Sophia Ma and Ethan Xie. The program was a wonderful tribute to Archmere students who excel in the study of music. The audience enjoyed the outstanding performance in the Patio and the reception on a very pleasant Friday evening. -
October 2024
Global Studies Trip to NicaraguaRead More
Archmere's Global Studies Program is getting ready to travel again, this time with ten students and two teachers to Nicaragua over Thanksgiving break to tutor students at Centro de Oportunidad, a youth school (in Nueva Esperanza, a barrio outside Granada) sponsored and built by Neighbors to Nicaragua, a non-profit organization founded by Wilmington native Chuck Selvaggio. Archmere students will support the Centro students in reaching their literacy goals. Leaving 11/24 and returning 11/30, the Archmere group, when they're not tutoring, will tour the city of Granada, enjoy ziplining, splash about in a waterpark, and experience the colorful culture of the country. Archmere's 11/15 tag day will collect funds for the barrio school, but please donate on your own by clicking here on the Neighbors to Nicaragua website. For more information about the Global Studies Program, contact Mr. Dougherty.
I took advantage of the many AP courses offered at Archmere. As a result of a rigorous schedule, I entered college as a sophomore. I found the classwork at one of the top 10 schools in the nation to be 'less' demanding than my courses at Archmere, and I was tremendously well-prepared for my future academic career. I cannot possibly imagine any other school delivering an even remotely comparable experience.
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Archmere Academy is a private, Catholic, college preparatory co-educational academy,
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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