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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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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. -
September 2024
Read MoreMandarin Chinese Classes Celebrate "Mid-Autumn Festival"
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節 / 中秋节 zhōng qiū jié), aka moon festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar.All Mandarin Chinese students celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in their classrooms this month. The celebration included learning a Tang Dynasty Poem, "静夜思 jìng yè shī" by Li Bai, and exploring the legend of the Moon Lady, Chang'e, and a good toxophilite, Hoù yì. Students also engaged in the cultural tradition of making mooncakes, adding a hands-on experience to the festivities. -
May/June 2024
Physics Club Competes in RegionalsRead More
The Archmere Physics Club won 3rd place for the Physics Bowl Competition in the regional division, which encompassed the regions of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Virginia, and West Virginia. Congratulations to the moderator, Dr. Wilcox, and the students who contributed, including Kabir Goyal, Kevin Xiao, Sophia Chen, Kathrine Wang, and Rebecca Wang.
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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