Academics

A Forest Ridge education encourages thinking beyond borders of all kinds. We inspire students to challenge themselves intellectually and nurture their own spirituality.

Valuing curiosity, inquiry and investigation, each grade-level curriculum is designed to build the skills of flexible thinking, critical reasoning and purposeful collaboration. Our strong multidisciplinary curriculum is rich with integrated learning opportunities that push our students to apply their knowledge and skills in a variety of cross-curricular ways.

Forest Ridge educates all students to the highest academic standards while providing them with diverse opportunities to explore new intellectual horizons, delve deep into their academic interests and take ownership for their learning.

With a focus on uniting disciplinary knowledge and skills, while encouraging new ways of thinking, our academic and extracurricular programs ignite curiosity, creativity and purpose within our students, empowering each girl to pursue her intellectual journey.

Our curriculum isn't just interdisciplinary, it's integrating multiple ways of thinking and doing. The more students can see how subjects are intertwined, the better we are preparing them for what the world looks like now and will look like in the future. Of course we want our girls to get into the top choice colleges, but we also want them to flourish in college. We don't want them to just be able to get jobs, we want them to be the changemakers the world needs.Nikki Danos, Director of College Counseling