Middleburg Academy inspires students to excellence in academics, the arts, and athletics. We are a dynamic community of students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni dedicated to lifelong learning, service to others, personal growth, and the success of each student: Cognoscere, Ducere, Servire (Learn, Lead, Serve) is not only our motto, but our daily practice. Middleburg Academy strives to develop young men and women of moral integrity who who are responsible leaders and citizens in a diverse and ever-changing world.
Middleburg Academy interprets “college preparation” in the broadest sense: we prepare our students for the academic demands of higher education, but we also help each to develop his or her own moral compass in preparation for increased independence at college. Our classical education in the liberal arts helps guide them to this thoughtful freedom and virtuous leadership. Simply put, we teach our students how to think.
The genuine emphasis on developing the whole person—head and heart, intellect and character—is deeply embedded in our rich and varied past. The philosophy was established in 1965, when Notre Dame Academy was founded as a Catholic boarding school for girls; it was there in the 1990s, as we evolved into a co-educational Catholic day school; and it continues to guide a non-sectarian, extraordinary independent school today. Our classical liberal arts education is not only the best college-preparatory curriculum, it is an education aimed toward living a noble and fruitful life far beyond the classroom environment.
Middleburg Academy’s classical curriculum and education model—to study the liberal arts as a means of living and understanding the good, the true, and the beautiful—has been and will continue to be developed in on-going association with Hillsdale College.