MISSION
Harrisburg Academy offers an academically challenging and globally minded liberal arts education that encourages each student to reach his or her full potential. In our commitment to excellence, we provide tools and teach skills that will prepare students to thrive and succeed in college and in their future endeavors.
CORE VALUES
- We aspire to set a standard for academic excellence and continue to be an educational leader in Central Pennsylvania.
- We teach our students to use their minds well and encourage them to actively pursue learning for the sake of learning by developing a healthy curiosity for the world around them.
- We are committed to teaching the most up-to-date content in our respective curricular areas, using current instructional methods and technologies.
- We instill the values of respect and responsibility for others that will lead our students to become productive and caring members of their communities.
- We aspire to know our students well as learners and to acknowledge, appreciate, and validate them as individuals.
- We promote each student’s growth in integrity, creativity, self-worth, resilience, leadership, global awareness, and critical thinking skills.
- We believe a well-grounded sense of self-worth is the foundation for academic excellence and can only be achieved in an environment where children feel safe — socially, physically, and emotionally.
- We are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, multiculturalism, and mutual respect.
- We are committed to a caring and supportive workplace where faculty and staff members are encouraged to pursue and achieve their professional and personal goals.
- We recognize that close working partnerships among students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff members, trustees, and the greater Harrisburg community are vitally important to achieving our mission.
