Mission: Culver educates its students for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the whole individual – mind, spirit, and body – through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.
Culver Academies is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school for grades nine through twelve. Located in Culver, Indiana, the Academies offers a leadership and character-based education interwoven with a challenging academic regimen. The Academies are comprised of Culver Military Academy, founded in 1894, and Culver Girls Academy, founded in 1971.
The Academies have an annual enrollment of more than 785 students representing 26 countries and 42 states. Twenty-two percent of the enrollment hails from countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Guatemala, India, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Taiwan. Culver has more than 24,000 alumni representing 50 states and 56 countries.
ACADEMICS
Culver is committed to intellectual growth through a demanding curriculum that prepares students for success in higher education.
Culver’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, writing, research, artistic expression, and foreign language proficiency through innovative teaching methods and technologically rich classrooms – all of this via an “extended learning time” schedule designed to support the Academies mission with a focus on wellness and community, teaching and learning, and flexibility and regularity.
To graduate young people of imagination, integrity, and vision, Culver provides students with the tools needed to make sense of an increasingly complex world – classroom methodologies which call upon students to lead discussion groups, individual and group presentations, and cooperative learning opportunities.
Culver teaches that the qualities of the good civic or business leader, a critical mind and a strong moral compass among them, are also those of the successful student.
LEADERSHIP
Culver’s leadership mission accentuates the importance of public service and commitment to others. It teaches students to value the communal good on a small scale – the club, the team, the living unit – to understand and appreciate the views of others, and to explore and find common ground.
Students learn that effective and successful leaders take an interest in the individuals with whom they work, recognizing that loyalty and respect do not come with title or rank, and that good leaders set high standards and establish challenging goals. Providing the background for this unique education are qualified and committed teachers, mentors, coaches, and role models who emphasize consistent standards and values and furnish the encouragement, counsel, and personal attention young people need to mature.
The leadership curriculum, for both boys and girls, explores the core values of effective leadership – good communication and listening skills, group dynamics, consensus building, decision making, goal setting, negotiation, motivation, and ethics. The leadership systems are designed to provide leadership opportunities and experiences that help students develop into both self-confident, capable leaders and knowledgeable, involved followers.
The Culver military system is a lifestyle that encourages pride in oneself, the living unit, the Corps of Cadets, and Culver. It prepares boys for success by teaching principles of leadership – integrity, discipline, manners, respect – and the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. And it develops traits and characteristics necessary to become a successful person – self-confidence, discipline, commitment, responsibility, ethical behavior, and hard work. Cadets choose one of four units: the infantry, artillery, troop, or band, and participate in the New Cadet System, a one-year program designed to develop students into capable members of the Corps of Cadets through a structured regimen of duties and responsibilities.
The Culver prefect system reveals to girls the existence of their own leadership potential by developing confidence, habits of self-discipline, accountability, and the core virtues central to the whole. Following the leaders before them, girls undergo leadership training and are elected or appointed to a position or responsibility. They ensure regulations are implemented, goals are reached, and that the entire group is involved and engaged. As they accomplish leadership responsibilities, girls continue to learn as they model high personal standards of behavior.
EXTRACURRICULARS
Our students have the opportunity to join any of the 37 clubs, six music performance groups, four vocal performance groups and 58 sports teams. All of these activities at Culver are about spirit, sportsmanship, fitness, competition, skill, fun, exercise, conditioning, and most important, participation. Culver encourages all students to be involved in some athletic activity or performing art and offers extensive opportunities to stay physically fit and to live a healthy lifestyle. There are interscholastic teams among the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity programs, club and leisure-time sports, plus a host of intramurals and other athletic activities including Artworks, Bicycle Club, Equestri-ennes, Dancevision, Drama Club and a Speech Team.
The 1,800-acre campus includes the two ice rinks and facilities for three boys hockey teams and two girls teams; a fitness center with an indoor track, aerobic, floor, and work-out machines; a recreation/athletic center with an indoor pool and diving tank, two varsity gyms, tennis courts, indoor batting cages, fencing, wrestling, and weight rooms, an archery range, and courts for handball, racquetball, or squash.
COLLEGE ADVISING
The philosophy of the college advising effort centers upon a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and the college advisor. The guiding principle and primary outcome is for each student to have college options that match his or her abilities and interests.
In the junior year, individual college advisors work closely with students in clarifying an initial college list and in working through the college application process. A required guidance class focuses on standardized test strategies/preparation and registration, curriculum discussions, career options, academic progress, and on selecting courses for the senior year. A full-time staff assists students in the selection of colleges. Culver seniors have a significant variety of college options and each year are accepted into America’s best colleges and universities.
DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS
ADMISSIONS
The Admissions Committee select applicants capable of pursuing a rigorous college-preparatory program and becoming effective and responsible citizens and leaders. To be considered for admission, we require an application, essays, interview, four teacher evaluations, official grade transcripts for the past two years, and the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT). We encourage families to complete the application process by January 15, as enrollment wait lists occur in the spring months. Wait lists occur in the spring months.
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Contact:
Culver Academies
Office of Admission
1300 Academy Road, 157
Culver, IN 46511
Office: 800-5CULVER
www.culver.org