Programs
Education that engages
At Indiana Academy, we have committed to providing opportunities for students to become “thinkers, and not mere reflectors of other men’s thought” (Education, p. 17). We purposefully provide an environment that allows individual learning styles to flourish with courses that balance rigor and relevance in a way that challenges students to apply their learning in the greater community. Incorporating components of service-learning (SL) and project-based learning (PBL) helps us to ensure that our students are receiving the critical thinking skills that are essential for their future collegiate and professional success.
We offer multiple diploma tracks, honors courses, dual-credit college classes, and a variety of hands-on elective courses including Computer Science, Photography, and Essentials of Living. Our classes are taught by engaging, passionate, NAD-certified teachers with a low teacher-to-student ratio. It is our belief that every one of our students is able to find an academic course load that can challenge and prepare them for the next step of their journey.
Academic Highlights
Nearly a 98% college acceptance rate
Multiple, place-based educational trips for History & Biology
Brain-based, research-driven instructional practices
Project-based and Service-focused learning
Low student-to-teacher ratio
Active National Honor Society chapter
Personal Spiritual Growth
Indiana Academy is a place where students are able to grow in their personal spiritual faith. Every class is taught to better reveal to students the true Author of all that is good, noble, and true. The sciences testify to God’s creation, mathematics demonstrates that He is a God of order, history reveals His works in our world, and language arts better prepare every student to articulate and appreciate the nature of His Word.
As a Seventh-day Adventist institution, we know how critical it is for our students to understand the prophetic time in which we are living. It is our desire that our students learn for themselves what it means to be a Christian in today’s society, both conceptually and practically. When students embrace the program at Indiana Academy, they are able to play an active role in learning how to worship, serve others, and better reflect their Creator in a genuine and authentic way.
study and appreciation of the Bible are not confined to the Bible classroom.
Worship Opportunities
A few ways our students enrich their faith:
Student-led church services throughout the Indiana Conference
Intensive Bible electives twice a year
Faculty & Student-led small group Bible studies
Daily chapel and personal devotion time
International and domestic mission trips
SERVICE to others
Learning to Serve
At Indiana Academy, we believe that Christ’s counsel to serve others, as found in Matthew 25, is to be taken literally. One of the cornerstones of the IA philosophy is the value of Christian service to others. We have developed a vibrant community outreach initiative, Project 58, which allows our entire school family to reach out to the greater Indianapolis area in a variety of avenues of service. Our students help rake leaves, lead out in prison ministry, volunteer at food banks, sort clothes for homeless shelters, bake bread for community members, and sew blankets and teddy bears for at-risk mothers. And those are just a few of the outreach ministries in which our students participate every month!
Mission Work
Additionally, our students are given the opportunity to conduct evangelistic series, build churches and schools, and lead out in VBS programs as a part of annual international mission trips. Even on various class-sponsored trips, like Senior Class Trip, our students incorporate elements of service like working with Habitat for Humanity throughout the country.
While we firmly believe in the value of community service, we are focused on becoming a school that fully incorporates service into everything we do, including the classroom. Our students are seeing the practical application of what they are being taught in the classroom through service opportunities in the larger community around them. They have led out in STEM fairs, created multimedia presentations, and preached sermons throughout the Indiana Conference putting their theoretical knowledge into practical service.
Students who have attended Indiana Academy know what it means to reach out to others in a meaningful and life-changing way.
DAILY LIFE
Family Environment
Friendships made at Indiana Academy are the kind that last a lifetime. We have a community of students that are supportive, prayerful, kind, and welcoming. Whether it’s spending time together riding on a bus to Boston or going for a nature walk on Sabbath afternoon; the relationships formed and memories made while at Indiana Academy will last long after diplomas have been handed out.
Our student body is big enough to allow students to grow their worldview while small enough to maintain a family-like feel. What’s best is that this family is formed in a Christ-centered community willing to pray and support one another!
Activities
We believe that it’s important to relax and recharge. Every Saturday night there is a different event planned for the entire student body. From school-wide dodgeball tournaments to trips to the ice skating rink, we don’t let a weekend pass without a little adventure. On weekdays, students play a variety of organized intramural sports like flag football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, ultimate Frisbee, and more.
Beyond that, our Student Association plans school spirit days, picnic outings, and a formal banquet; and both the Boys’ and Girls’ clubs plan weekly activities and retreats throughout the year.
Student Body
A brief breakdown of the IA Family:
A near-capacity enrollment of 120 students began the 2015-16 school year
Our student body represents more than a half-dozen countries
Approximately 80% of our student body lives in the dormitories
The students of IA serve in a variety of leadership roles, including spiritual, service, and social event planning
