Fieldstone Academy

About Us

Who We Are

When parents start looking for help for a child, they typically find either at-risk youth programs or college-prep boarding schools with high admissions requirements. Fieldstone takes care of those kids who might not fit in either. We are not the place where the hard-core kids go for therapeutic help, nor do we reject kids who have lower GPAs. We work with those students who need extra help in order to be successful, or who want to progress more rapidly than their current schools allow.

Simply put, we are extremely successful at working with young people who need extra help in school. This same set of skills also works well with those students who are not being challenged enough in school or who do not speak English as a first language. Our typical students fall into two categories:

One: Students who need a bigger challenge academically. Often we enroll students who have simply become bored with school. It is not a challenge to them and often becomes a simple chore without reward. These students are able to do very well at Fieldstone with added flexibility, variety, and personal attention.

Two: Students who have fallen behind--even seriously behind--in school. We have had students who were a year or more behind that later graduated and are currently very successful in college. On average, these types of students enter our school with an average GPA of 1.6. They leave with an average GPA of 3.1. This same group of students has an average college GPA of 3.59--and this from young people who might not have graduated high school! In this area we also see our transition students, who have completed a therapeutic program or wilderness program, and now need help with making up the work they have missed.

Our Fieldstone Academy staff members tutor struggling youth in their schoolwork, and are able to give them a tremendous amount of one-on-one attention daily. This is when failing students succeed and good students become excellent! We focus on building relationships to the point where our students are willing to allow us to help them with their problems.

Nowhere will you find a place where your child will find more support and structure to accomplish their goals than at Fieldstone Academy.

Who We Help

Specifically, we are known for our success in catching young people up in scholastics, teaching progressive study habits that will prepare them to compete in college and helping them through the behavioral issues that have prevented their academic success in the past.

Student populations are small depending on the time of the year, and every student has direct help from both teachers and tutors to help them succeed.