Del Mar Academy is an independent day school for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. We are committed to combine academic excellence and the joy of learning with the experiencing of the wonder of the natural world. We integrate the Montessori philosophy into our curriculum. Our education enables children to develop an ethical approach to all living things and to believe in their power to make positive changes.

Our Mission
Our mission at Del Mar Academy is to provide a high quality bilingual education addressing the individual needs of each child in a safe, orderly, nurturing, and richly stimulating setting, as well as increasing the student’s awareness and knowledge of the environmental issues and challenges.

Our Goals

• To encourage academic excellence
• To endorse bilingualism
• To nurture curiosity, creativity and imagination
• To inspire personal responsibility for preservation of the environment
• To encourage an international mindedness

Our Values
Enrichment: Our challenging, multidisciplinary curriculum is tailored to the individual needs, strengths, and interests of the children and our methodology is based on the best practices of enrichment teaching and learning. Creative problem-solving, decision making, and logical reasoning are infused into the program.

Empowerment: Through the recognition and development of their strengths and talents our students, as active learners, develop skills and are encouraged to pursue independent investigations. Through the opportunities to be decision makers, active researchers, and creative producers students develop a sense of empowerment.

Nurturing Environment: The school offers a warm environment shaped by the values of respect, compromise, integrity, cooperation, tolerance and love. Our adult to child ratio is optimal for effective individualized and small group instruction.

Citizenship: Del Mar Academy is dedicated to the development of the child as an active joyous learner, a collaborator, a citizen of his/her community and the world.

Parental Participation: Parent involvement is vital to the well being of the students and the school. Our parents are true partners in education. We survey their interests, professions, and hobbies so that willing parents are encouraged to come into the school to share their knowledge and expertise with our students.

Diversity: Ethnic, racial, religious, and lifestyle differences among students and their families enrich the texture of our school. Cultural diversity is valued and children are exposed to various perspectives through the curriculum as well. Individual differences are celebrated at Del Mar Academy as a source of learning and joy.