Academics

Gilmour Academy’s academic philosophy combines uncompromising rigor with deeply personalized learning, empowering students to chart their own paths. Fully accredited by ISACS — the gold standard for independent schools — Gilmour meets a rigorous, peer-reviewed benchmark that affirms excellence in academics, leadership and governance while upholding best practices in independent education.

 

With intentionally small classes, an 11:1 student-teacher ratio and state-of-the-art learning spaces, students are truly known — by faculty and by one another — creating a culture where they feel confident taking risks and exploring new interests. Personalized instruction, abundant opportunities to pursue passions, and a coed environment that mirrors the real world help students grow as thinkers, collaborators and communicators prepared for life beyond Gilmour.

 

A cohesive Toddler–Grade 12 experience ensures that each stage of a Gilmour education builds purposefully on the last. As students move from the Lower to the Middle to the Upper School, they encounter new challenges and expanding opportunities while certain core threads remain constant. Signature K–12 initiatives such as Community Block, our Self-Assessment model, Socratic Seminars, student choice and service learning support continuous growth and success throughout their academic journey.

 

At Gilmour, the path to college success begins long before applications are submitted. Our intentional approach starts in the Lower School and deepens through Middle and Upper School, ensuring students are exceptionally well-prepared when the time comes. That early investment yields outstanding outcomes. Gilmour students have earned admission to 20 of the Top 30 colleges and universities (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report) over the past five years and 90% of the most recent graduating class was admitted to their first- or second-choice school.