About Harborside Academy

Harborside Academy is a charter school for grades 6 through 12, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

School Highlights

Strong emphasis on service learning and community service. Students earn well over 100 hours of community service and complete their own service project before reaching graduation.
Habit of Success traits, which include, tenacity, integrity, leadership, respect, humor and cooperation, are emphasized and reflected upon daily.
Curriculum is restructured and designed into expeditions to engage students in learning through expert speakers and fieldwork, but can take place outside of the classroom and be experienced first-hand.
Students attend daily Crew, a class designed to feel like family and develop a strong, caring group that provides support and assistance to one another. Our motto is “We are Crew.”
A nationally recognized credentialed mentor school in EL Education for the implementation of the Core Practices model, which develops students in three areas of achievement: Academics, Character, and High Quality Work.

History

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their “Delta Project” decided to fund a new high school, one of 20 new high schools throughout the country, in Kenosha.

Harborside Academy, like all schools that are a part of the Delta Project, uses the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) model. ELOB schools combine rigorous academic content and real world projects — learning expeditions — with active learning and community service.

In 2012, Harborside Academy merged with Paideia Academy, a charter middle school.

What Makes Harborside Unique?

It is research based
A joint emphasis on character and academics
A high quality, program for professional development
Focus on Character and an Ethic of Service
Continuing relationships with a growing system of schools around the country
Quality control in place
Learning Intensives
Outward Bound
Crew
Engaging Instruction
All students are college bound