March 2015
| Business World
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time, it’s a very nurturing environment. Our
teachers have great relationships with our
students and they want to see them succeed
and be involved in extracurricular activities.”
Kathleen explains that the school’s mission
is to help each of their 945 students achieve
their maximum potential through their five
core values of excellence, integrity, freedom,
responsibility and community. Furthermore,
she reveals that they like to limit the student
body to roughly 1,000 students in order to
“retain the family-oriented environment
that’s very important to us.”
“We don’t want to be the biggest school
in town, we want to be the best school in
town,” she proclaims. “Our goal as a school
is to prepare students for what comes after
Stratford Academy. Not only do we want our
students to find the college that is a good fit
for them and see them succeed there, but we
want them to have had experiences here that
may encourage them to find out what their
