Today’s parents of high-school students are confronted with a set of educational choices that leaves a majority of them looking for high quality, more affordable alternatives.  Among these concerns are:

• Outdated and low quality curriculum;

• Entrenched, under-trained or inexperienced teachers;

• Irrelevant educational models designed to prepare students for a world that is no longer in existence;

• Considerable concerns about safety and well-being;   

• Detached traditional teaching methods that do not inspire or excite the students;

• Haphazard set of standards for private and charter schools, and irrelevant standards for public schools;

• Prohibitive tuition rates for traditional private schools;

• Lackluster government support for charter schools.

Based on market research of over 300 parents of current high school students by Scientia, the parents of current high school students are looking for: (1) Excellent teachers and teaching processes; (2) committed and passionate parent and student community; and (3) a curriculum that prepares students for a globally competitive, 21st century business world. Scientia was conceived to attract these parents who want a high performing, relevant and rigorous education for their children, but cannot afford the costs or the dogma attached to traditional private and public high schools. The following characteristics of Scientia show how we are different from the traditional public and private high schools.

Best Practice Quality Standards

Traditional public schools and many private schools are burdened with multiple layers of management and bureaucracy. Scientia, on the other hand, will feature few layers between the principal and the teachers, eliminating wasted time and non-value added work.  Scientia will only have one level of management at the school level. Making high schools focused and uncomplicated has a number of advantages: 

• Teachers get to know the students better;

• More time can be devoted to educating students;

• Provides flexibility to adopt latest thinking;

• Real time feedback and continuous improvement.

Highly Effective School Design

Scientia has been designed from scratch to incorporate best practices not only form education, but from the leading companies around the world.  Traditional public high schools are characterized by with multiple layers of management and bureaucracy.  Flat & fast school design, on the other hand, feature few layers of managers between the principle and the teachers.  Applying these innovative concepts has a number of advantages that you will experience:

• Effective and responsive communication channels;

• Dedicated staff mentors for all your concerns;

• “Boundary-less” classrooms that use smart technology;

• Instructors who know and care about your student, both in and out of the classroom;

• Innovative, integrated, project-based curriculum;

• Resulting in a high school experience for your sons and daughters that are exciting, rewarding, challenging and fun.

High Performance Curriculum & Instructors

Each Scientia High School will be taught by business and entrepreneurial leaders, who are successful in their areas of expertise. Scientia’s curriculum emphasizes reading, writing and arithmetic through a project-based and case case-study driven method of teaching.  The curriculum is designed to graduate students ready to compete effectively in the global Scientia will have classes 8 hours a day, 4 days a week, with each class scheduled to last 90 minutes.  On the 5th day, students will be engaged in project-based activity, and Saturdays are devoted to students’ extracurricular activities.

Affordable Tuition Rates

The unique combination of flat organizational design, lean processes, emphasis on core curriculum, and utilization of smart technologies, results in a model that can offer this enhanced educational experience at tuition rates that are 40 percent below traditional private high schools.  Other characteristics that will allow it provided such competitive tuition rates are:

• Virtual curriculum augments elective classes;

• On-line, downloadable materials replace textbooks;

• Automated back-office software replaces non-value-added overhead staff;

• On-line admission and student tracking systems;

• Scientia will utilize existing community resources to teach art, music and other electives that have been eliminated in public schools;

• Expensive facilities dedicated to varsity level sports, which only attract 15 percent of the student body in traditional schools, will be replaced with a wider array of club sports and physical activities. extracurricular activities.