Cedar Ridge Academy
Students enrolled in Cedar Ridge Therapeutic Boarding School attend Cedar Ridge Academy, an accredited high school and transitional boarding school.

Cedar Ridge Academy offers a flexible but rigorous curriculum that is designed to support struggling teens in many ways, including:
Direct daily involvement in the therapeutic treatment milieu

• A flexible balance of independent, group, and class work that accommodates the flow of therapeutic progress.
• Individualized structure in small classes of 8-12 students with certified teachers.
• College prep graduation requirements with nationally recognized credits.
• Regular school day with full, on-site teaching staff.
• Our own curriculum, not web-based or borrowed.
• Long history of successful academic remediation and credit recovery for college and workplace readiness.

Educational Philosophy
At Cedar Ridge Academy, we focus on teaching more than just the curriculum. We also focus on teaching our students how to be effective students. As a result of this additional focus, we avoid ‘just getting them through’ their high school credits. Cedar Ridge Academy students are required to demonstrate an acceptable level of competency in each area before moving ahead, regardless of their current grade level.

When a student arrives at Cedar Ridge Academy, we test their academic skills in order to place them at the appropriate levels in their core classes. Some may be required to repeat a class due to insufficient skill. For some of them, the material serves as a review and they are able to move ahead quickly to catch up to their grade level in that subject area. Our individual approach allows us to meet the needs of students who have learning differences or who need remediation.

Although the content comprehension is one way we gauge a student’s academic placement, we also consider the student’s ability to study, their desire to manage themselves in an academic manner (motivation), and their ability and desire to form a working relationship with the teachers. Almost all of the students at Cedar Ridge have struggles with school, sometimes for academic reasons and sometimes for psychological reasons. Our goal is to ensure that when they exit Cedar Ridge Academy, they are prepared for success in any academic setting they choose to enter.