Academics

Learning at Grymes is grounded in a vigorous academic program that encourages children on their journey to becoming confident, well-rounded, and intellectually curious students.

Our integrated curriculum focuses on the foundational skills of reading, writing, and mathematics; scientific observation, logic, and critical thinking; and creative and physical exploration. At every level, students gain knowledge and master skills as they grow their abilities from one grade level to the next. Music, library, and Spanish language instruction are introduced in Junior Kindergarten, and this broad-based learning continues throughout a child’s time at Grymes. At every turn, small class sizes and devoted teachers support children’s innate passion to learn and grow.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We are a passionate, child-first learning community devoted to launching joyful learners. The Grymes experience is carefully crafted to support and guide each child’s innate drive to explore the world and to find his or her own place within it. At Grymes, children come fully alive as they develop their unique passions and abilities under the skillful guidance of loving faculty and staff devoted to preparing children for lives of purpose and contribution.

The Grymes experience is consciously grounded in a rigorous academic program reinforced by strong community values of honor, respect, responsibility, and kindness. Equally important, Grymes students are free to be kids. Imagination and creative play are part of every day, with our rural campus serving as a 42-acre discovery laboratory. This interweaving of structure, freedom, challenge, and play gives students strong roots from which they can raise their sights to the expanding horizons of high school, college, and the world beyond. Our philosophy is based on these five key principles:

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Nurturing Character

We integrate our core values of honor, respect, responsibility, and kindness throughout our program to ensure Grymes students understand how to apply their education in service to the larger purpose of living happy, productive lives in community with others.
Building Thinkers

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Building Thinkers

We integrate our core values of honor, respect, responsibility, and kindness throughout our program to ensure Grymes students understand how to apply their education in service to the larger purpose of living happy, productive lives in community with others.
CultivatingCreativity

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Cultivating Creativity

We cultivate creativity as an essential capacity of human development and progress. Students at all grade levels practice imagination, expression, and innovation as they discover their voices and develop their craft with ever greater confidence.
Fostering Community

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Fostering Community

We believe that a safe, inclusive, and close-knit community fosters the deep connections children need to flourish. We steadfastly reinforce the fundamentals of community living and children learn to practice and appreciate the importance of being good friends, classmates, and school citizens.
LaunchingLearners

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Launching Learners

At Grymes, children grow into well-rounded students as they develop their unique passions and abilities guided by strong character, the conscious practice of community, and plenty of humor, play, and fun. From here, they go on to lives of purpose and meaning in high school, college, and beyond knowing they are forever part of the Grymes family.
Early Learners AGES 3-5
Lower School GRADES 1-4
Upper School GRADES 5-8