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Our Values

Excellence

Bergman Academy upholds high standards of academic performance across the disciplines. Highly trained teachers implement a rigorous academic program that encourages critical thinking, creativity, achievement, and leadership.

Experience

Bergman Academy creates an educational journey that combines hands-on learning with an integrated academic, artistic, and athletic curriculum. Students participate in new and traditional activities designed to enrich their learning. Students are encouraged to explore and enjoy the natural world.

Individualit

Bergman Academy values each student as a unique individual and considers every student's strengths and needs. Students are urged to develop their own thoughts, questions, and interests.

Community

Bergman Academy encourages cooperative work along with self-reliant performance. Students develop confidence in their ability to speak, lead, and contribute positively to the world, as they become stewards of their communities.

Responsibility

Bergman Academy students learn through their own success, failure, and perseverance. They learn the appropriate acceptance of and expression of feelings. They accept responsibility for their work and their actions. Students practice moral behavior and uphold the principles of honesty, courage, self-respect, and respect for others.

Differences

Bergman Academy students learn to value individual differences and divergent thinking. They learn, as they grow, to seek inclusiveness and justice in a multi-cultural world.

Enjoyment

Bergman Academy believes that learning is enhanced when students pursue it with enthusiasm and confidence. Bergman Academy students experience the joy that begins with curiosity and grows with the pursuit of their own interests and passions.

Bergman Academy Logo in blue and white. The logo features a large blue circle and an inner white circle. On the outter blue circle are the words "Bergman Academy" in white. On the inside circle, there is a large blue tree with the words "Founded in 1977".

Bergman Academy is an accredited independent school for preschool through grade 8, located in Des Moines, Iowa. Bergman Academy strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united in the pursuit of excellence, independence, global perspective, and a commitment to each other.

Bergman Academy

100 45th Street

Des Moines, IA 50312

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