Mission Statement – Our Beliefs

Doane Academy is committed to developing intelligent, capable young people within a school culture where students are known, loved, and strongly encouraged to realize their full potential.

The School offers a rigorous liberal arts curriculum and cultivates the development of character, emotional maturity, and standards of ethical conduct as essential to preparation for college and education for life.

Since its founding in 1837, the School has encouraged students to reflect on their relationship with God, to seek truth and to be of significant value to others.

These beliefs guide the life and work at Doane Academy every day:

Safe and stimulating

Each child has a unique set of talents and interests, which are more fully realized within the safe and stimulating environment of a small school with small classes.

Knowledge, love, and trust

Children who come to know, love and trust themselves tend to be courageous and creative in their work and respectful, honest and compassionate in their relationships.

Essential skills, intellectual curiosity, and academic rigor

Students master essential skills, develop intellectual curiosity and acquire the ability and the desire to continue learning throughout their lives in the context of a rigorous academic and extra-curricular program.

Respect for differences

Students and faculty with varied talents, interests and perspectives create a stimulating intellectual environment and foster respect and appreciation for differences.

An educational partnership

Parents and teachers must work as partners to educate children effectively.

A dedicated faculty

The skills, dedication, and continuity of the faculty and staff are the most important factors in a school's achieving its mission.

Place, peace, and purpose

A school that commits to a philosophy of life and a code of conduct inspired, at least in part, by a belief in God provides children with a sense of place, peace and purpose.