Germantown Academy

Our core GA Mission consists of 15 simple but profound words, 15 words that will guide our actions and activities each day and every year.  Making these 15 words memorable and meaningful involves communicating and living by them at home as well as at school. We ask for your support in this process by discussing these values with your children and placing the enclosed Mission Magnet on your home refrigerator. We have placed Mission Posters in each entry way and classroom at school, and discussions about various permutations of these 15 words have already become a part of educational life.  Such daily visibility at home and at school will make these 15 words the internal compass that guides our students/your children in their personal and professional lives. The new Mission Statement will also serve GA as the touchstone for all ideas and the philosophic structure under which future strategic plans will be organized and assessed.  GA planners will be guided by these 15 words as we evolve our curriculum for a 21st century environment. To know that GA, as a community, will be grounded in and guided by the same 15 words that inspire and direct our students is an assurance that Germantown Academy, spaces and programs, teachers and students, ideas and ideals, while ever-changing is also never changing.  Independence, confidence, compassion, collaboration, and honor, skillfully combined, have always been the formula for virtue and the foundation for permanence. So it shall remain for the century to come, a century in which GA students, teachers and graduates will leave a lasting mark.