High Growth Honor School of Excellence
The Hawbridge School serves grades 6-12. Students from all North Carolina school districts are eligible to enroll.
What Makes Hawbridge Different?
The highly accredited faculty has designed and implemented the Hawbridge Model:
- Teaching and learning for conceptual understanding promote student engagement and cultivate creativity and innovation.
- Differentiating and individualizing instruction contribute to the student-centered approach that fosters social, emotional, behavioral, and academic development.
- Encouraging and supporting every student ensures that each has the opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
- Modeling and instilling respect for others and the small, safe, beautiful environment foster caring attitudes so that everyone feels appreciated and included.
- Collaborating on and writing Interdisciplinary Units strengthen faculty relationships and professional regard, and provide students an understanding of the connections among and across subject areas.
- Creating and sustaining a learning community involves students and faculty in the joy of discovery.
Located in a restored mill on the banks of the Haw River in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, The Hawbridge School offers an enriched curriculum in Environmental Studies and the arts, and a focus on environmental stewardship as a problem of ethics. Fully utilizing its beautiful surroundings, the school is a leader in the outdoor classroom movement, and research projects in the outdoors are a daily occurrence.
The Hawbridge School offers an innovative, experiential and project-based curriculum that organizes the state standard course of study into month-long Interdisciplinary Units. Hawbridge Enterprises teach business principles and provide knowledge about professions: Hawbridge Designs, Hawbridge Gardens, and HOutdoors.
