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Welcome to Pioneer Academy

Since 1999, Pioneer Academy has established a tradition of quality in rigorous and ethics-driven college-preparatory education of students from Pre-K to Grade 12.

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ADMISSIONS

A Bright Future Starts Here

At Pioneer Academy, our foremost focus is on rigorously nurturing students’ innate curiosity, to support their self-confidence and development as learners and principled problem-solvers, as creators, collaborators, and ethics-driven leaders.

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ACADEMICS

Best Private PreK-12 School

Pioneer students, guided by exceptional faculty, develop the foundational skills, knowledge, and critical thinking faculties to become self-directed learners, leaders, and agents of positive change in their surrounding communities and the world.

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Pioneer Athletics is focused on supporting and encouraging the student body by promoting health, fitness, wellness, and physical education through our wide array of individual, club, and team-based athletics offerings.

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Fine Arts

We are thrilled to showcase the creativity and talent of our students. From stunning paintings to captivating music performances, Pioneer students have been honing their artistic skills and producing works that are truly exceptional.

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STUDENT LIFE

Beyond the Classroom

Pioneer Academy’s vibrant learning community welcomes students of all backgrounds, races, religions and orientations. Student life is richly diverse, with myriad opportunities both inside and beyond the classroom.

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Pioneer Academy donors play a critical part in ensuring success of our school’s front and back ends, from significant financial aid and competitive faculty compensation to our innovative academic programs, world-class global service-immersion, and extra-curricular offerings.

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Curriculum

Math and Reading Enrichment

Purpose: To strengthen students’ foundational skills in reading and mathematics.

Activities: Students will participate in a range of supplemental activities and games that build on top of content that is being taught in their normal math and ELA classes.

Enrollment Notes: This class is only available for Kindergarten students.

Math and ELA Support

Purpose: To provide additional support for students in both mathematics and English language arts. Students will receive additional time and individual attention from their teachers to help them master the skills and concepts covered in their regular math and ELA courses.

‍Activities: In addition to receiving help on assignments and projects from their normal math and ELA courses, students will have time to practice their foundational skills at their pace, using IXL and workbooks as supplementary materials.

Enrollment Notes: Math and ELA support is only available for students in grades 1,2,3 and 4.

Advanced Math

Purpose: To provide an extra level of rigor and challenge for our high-performing math students.

‍Activities: In addition to practicing for math competitions, students will also engage in various other games and tasks that extend off of content covered in their normal math classes.

‍Enrollment Notes: Advanced Math is available for students in grade 1, 2, 3, and 4. Students should score in the top 30% on the NWEA MAP Math test.

Advanced Reading

Purpose: To provide extra opportunities for students to further develop their ability and love for reading.

‍Activities: Students and teachers will read and analyze higher level readings from different genres, learning new concepts, themes, and vocabulary along the way. Students will also have time for independent reading of book of their own choice.

‍Enrollment Notes: Advanced Reading is available for students in grade 1 and 2. Students should score in the top 30% on the NWEA MAP Reading test.

Robotics

Purpose: To introduce students to the world of robotics and to inspire interest in technology.

‍Activities: Students will design, assemble, and operate robots using Lego kits.

‍Enrollment Notes: Robotics is only available for students in grades 3 and 4.

World Languages

Our Lower School World Languages program focuses on providing the students with a firm foundation in the listening and speaking skills with an introduction to reading and writing.

The learning process will include plenty of games, entertaining activities and everyday classroom situations that will require the foreign language to be accomplished.

Goals

Students will greet each other in a culturally appropriate way
Students will be able to follow and give directions in different everyday situations
Students will be able to recognize some cultural similarities and differences with the target language
Students will be able to identify basic vocabulary in a variety of daily topics

Purpose: To learn how to read, write, and speak the Arabic or Turkish language, while also learning about cultures and customs.

‍Activities: Students will engage in various activities related to vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, live dialogue, and cultural projects.

‍Enrollment Notes: Students from grades K-4 may enroll.

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We moved to United States from Europe and I thought my son might have some difficulties adapting and blending in. Thanks to the Pioneer Academy's dedicated and Professional Lower School Team he had no struggle at all. Pioneer Academy was able to manage the diversity of the student body and they build and reflect tolerance and respect between students.

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Elective Courses

We are offering a variety of elective courses for our Lower School students from Advanced Mathematics to Advanced Reading, Robotics, Programming, World Languages and many more.

Lower School Elective Courses

We are offering a variety of elective courses for our Lower School students from Advanced Mathematics to Advanced Reading, Robotics, Programming, Arabic, Turkish and many more.

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