Academics

For over a century, the Katherine Delmar Burke School has been dedicated to understanding and addressing the ways that girls learn best. Recent developments in brain research have provided an even firmer foundation for the benefits of single-sex education for girls. At Burke’s, our knowledge of this research underpins the way we teach each class and interact with each student.

In our classrooms, we emphasize conceptual understanding in developmentally appropriate ways to ensure that our girls are ready for the next phase of secondary education and young adulthood. Our students’ exceptional high school placement and consistently strong performance on standardized testing are objective measures of our academic program.

The rigor of the Burke’s curriculum is balanced by a firm belief that learning, like childhood, should be a joyous experience. Our teachers make school challenging and fun, and pursue a strategy of learning by exploration. Our teachers will always lead their students beyond the necessary basic foundational facts to stimulate creative inquiry and higher order thinking.

Burke’s faculty is comprised of highly experienced educators, many of whom have graduate degrees and all of them take advantage of professional development resources to bring fresh pedagogical methods and concepts into the classroom.