Virtue can be inspired.

Excellence can be taught.

Welcome to Gardner Academy

Gardner Academy prepares students in grades 6-8 to excel academically, lead with integrity, and serve with purpose through a rigorous, values-driven, competency-based education rooted in the Episcopal tradition, classical wisdom, and place-based learning in the Methow Valley.

Gardner Academy is exploring a launch in the fall of 2026.

Mission

Building future leaders of character, curiosity and courage in service to the world.

Courage. Character. Curiosity.

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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education."— The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.