Concept study
Northstar Academy
Private school
Open house: Saturday, March 8 at 10am. Reserve a seat
Northstar AcademyIndependent, K to 12
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Admissions for next fall are open
A school that takes curiosity seriously.
420 students, kindergarten to grade 12, on one campus. Small classes, serious teachers and enough room in the day to wonder about things.
- Students to teachers
- 12 : 1
- Students to teachers
- Of seniors present a year-long project
- 100%
- Of seniors present a year-long project
- In aid awarded this year
- $3.1M
- In aid awarded this year
Three schools that know each other by name.
i
Lower School
Kindergarten to grade 5
Reading every day, a garden for science and two recesses, because both matter.
- 14 per class
- Spanish from K
ii
Middle School
Grades 6 to 8
Advisory groups, lab science and the first long research project, with a teacher who knows each student.
- Advisory of 10
- Robotics and debate
iii
Upper School
Grades 9 to 12
Seminar-style humanities, 16 advanced courses and a senior project presented to the whole school.
- 16 advanced courses
- College counselling from 9th
Admissions, in four steps.
One in three families receives tuition aid.
Step 1 Any time
Inquire
Tell us about your child. We send dates and a real person's email.
Step 2 October to January
Visit
Sit in on a class. Students give the tours.
Step 3 Due January 31
Apply
One form, two teacher notes, a conversation.
Step 4 March 15
Decision
Every family hears on the same day, with aid included.
The people in the room.
Dr. Imani Okafor
Head of School
12 years at Northstar
Daniel Reyes
Upper School history
9 years
Priya Nair
Middle School science
6 years
Tom Lindqvist
Lower School, grade 2
15 years
Announcements
- Feb 24Robotics team qualifies for the state finalStudents
- Feb 18Spring conferences: sign-up opens MondayFamilies
- Feb 10New greenhouse opens behind the Lower SchoolCampus
Coming up
- Mar8Open house10:00am, main hall. Tours leave every 20 minutes.
- Mar14Winter concert6:30pm, Hale Auditorium
- Mar21No school: teacher workdayAftercare open by sign-up
Family handbook
Supply lists
Athletics schedule
Bus routes
An admissions site that holds programs, people, dates and paperwork in one calm system.
Northstar is a school I invented. School websites tend to collapse under their own weight: every department needs a page, every family needs a different one, and the home page becomes a wall of links.
What the page has to do
- Answer a new family first: what the school is, how to visit, how to apply and by when.
- Give current families the five things they open every week, without a hunt.
- Keep announcements and dates current without a redesign. On a real build the office edits these lists.
- Introduce the teachers, because that is who a parent is choosing.
What to try
Scroll the preview down to the admissions steps and the calendar, then switch to Phone. It is the same content in the same order, rearranged for a narrow screen instead of shrunk to fit one.
- Admissions path
- Programs
- Faculty
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Family resources
- Category
- Private school
- Role
- Design and build
- Built with
- Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
- It shows
- A lot of information that still reads as one page
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