Beacon Academy

Our high school merges independent school best practices and a challenging, innovative curriculum with the student-centered methods of Montessori pedagogy.

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Beacon Academy will welcome over 170 students this fall from 50 (!) zip codes.

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Level 1 Story Theater Class kicked off Arts Week with a great performance at Piven Theater tonight. #piventheatreworkshop #piventheatre

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Celebrating great success at last weekend's state Science Olympiad competition. Many medals!

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Shown are several of the students on hand to greet the over 200 visitors Thursday night at our Accepted Students event.

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Students gather for conversation in the community room before school starts.

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Squash tournament this weekend.

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Math with Mr. Levine.

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Winners last night. Advancing in the tournament!

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History Bowl today at Loyola Academy. 1-1 after two matches.

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Tonight Beacon hosted 28 Chicago high school students from the Syrian Community Network. All are refugees arriving in the last 2 years.

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The Beacon Train Club was introduced this morning!

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Our girls basketball team with coach Williams.

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Mr. Bell and Ms. Petzer arranged a mid-winter pick me up of coffee and hot chocolate this morning.

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Our squash team!

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Raise a creative child!: "Their children had freedom to sort out their own values and discover their own interests." https://t.co/2BWe8MmiWX

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A fascinating article on screen time and the adolescent mind: "http://t.co/nWQW32opIX…/screen-addiction-is-taking…/

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Art twins!

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Beacon is proud to participate in Stand Against Racism today sponsored by @YWCAUSA

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The Moral Bucket List http://t.co/OBflbiQ0GF