Private schools in Montgomery County AL: Elementary micro school in Montgomery. Currently accepting kids in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade, and expanding into middle school & high school years as our students progress.
The New School Montgomery: Currently accepting students for 1st through 6th grades, our Montgomery, Alabama, private micro-school emphasizes choice, freedom, and personal responsibility. That’s why you won’t see uniforms, seating charts, or teachers lecturing to students. Our elementary students learn core skills–math, reading, and writing–via technology, including Khan Academy, but they also work on multi-disciplinary projects.
Located in the Birmingham AL metro area, Jefferson Christian Academy (JCA) is a private Christian school that provides quality education for K4 through to 12th grade. We also have an Early Childhood Learning Center for infants and preschoolers ages 6 weeks – 3 years.
Our school is situated in Irondale and our students come from Jefferson County, Saint Clair County, Shelby County, and Blount County. Academically, Jefferson Christian Academy is college preparatory.
JCA is accredited by the SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) and the NCSA (National Christian School Association).
The teachers and staff at JCA are committed and loving Christians who believe in the mission of the school. With God's guidance, Jefferson Christian Academy will cultivate and maintain an environment where the student is nurtured and challenged to realize his/her potential in spiritual maturity, academic attainment, athletic achievement and social and emotional development.
- Early childhood learning center for infants & preschoolers ages 6 weeks-3 years
- Full-day kindergarten: K-4 and K-5
- Christian elementary, middle and high school
- Bible classes & chapel services
- Free before-school program
- Extracurricular programs include sports, drama, debate, photography & more...
Hilltop Montessori School is an independent, secular school in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama offering the highest quality of private education based on the principle of Montessori philosophy. Our student body is composed of children from age 18 months through eighth grade. Hilltop Montessori’s curriculum fosters within the child a positive attitude toward learning, a respect toward self and others, and an understanding of one’s responsibility to the world.
Hilltop’s school community is strongly multi-cultural, from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds living in Jefferson, Shelby and St. Clair counties.
The Joseph S. Bruno Montessori Academy in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama is a non-profit, private school educating students from preschool through eighth grade. Our goal is to provide the opportunity for all students to grow to their fullest potential cognitively, socially, emotionally, spiritually, morally and aesthetically.
Our educational practices are built around the theories of Jean Piaget and Howard Gardner, as well as Maria Montessori. We believe children are born with the need to explore and discover and with the strong desire to learn.
We provide the kind of lessons, even the most challenging ones, that make learning exciting and stimulate the desire to find out more. Lessons are given to small groups of students or even individually so that they can understand the concepts presented.
Adirondack Learning Academy - Accredited Homeschool Online Programs
Courses / Programs
• Enroll in an accredited online homeschool course from Adirondack Learning Academy (ALA), and give your child or teenager the opportunity to benefit from quality, NCAA-approved online education from the comfort of their own home.
• Adirondack Learning Academy is a Brevard County-based online homeschool provider that serves K-12 students in Florida, and throughout the U.S.
• Through our partnership with Acellus (online curriculum provider), we are able to offer an in-home online option that expands learning beyond the walls of any school to provides a global academic experience. At the same time, online students can still participate in extracurricular benefits offered online.
• Our program recognizes that each child is an individual, so we offer comprehensive, customizable courses that suit their learning styles, interests, and educational goals.
• On completion of the program, each senior will receive a homeschool diploma from ALA and an official transcript that states that you have completed the requirements for graduation in your state.
ALA is accredited by the National Independent Study Accreditation Council (NISAC) and approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
John Carroll Catholic High School is a private Catholic high school in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. We offer outstanding academic, spiritual, fine arts, library, guidance, sports, and extracurricular programs that offer students a complete high school experience and opportunities to develop into well-rounded young people who are ready to take the next steps into adulthood.
Honors courses are designed to challenge gifted students to pursue their studies in greater depth. These courses require more independent study, research, analysis and critical thinking. Advanced courses are offered for those students whose placement exam and prior achievement qualify them for a rigorous college preparatory course of study.
University of Alabama Department of Computer Science, Summer Camps
Courses / Programs
This summer, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will host a series of computer science camps for middle school and high school students. We welcome students from Alabama and throughout the United States, as well as international students from around the world.
We provide a week-long day (commuter) camp for middle school students, and two-week camps for high school students with both day and overnight options available. Our fun and educational summer tech camps cover a range of computer science topics such as game programming and robotics.
Our tech camps are taught by a University of Alabama faculty member and three Ph.D. students who have extensive experience in teaching Computer Science in high school. One assistant also has a PhD in Education and is pursuing a second PhD in Computer Science.
A limited number of merit and financial-need tuition scholarships are available.
Computer Camp for Middle School Students:
Week-long day camp - Game Programming with Scratch; Robotics.
Computer Camps for High School Students:
Two-week computer camps with commuter and residential dorm options available.
- Introduction to Programming with Java
- Smartphone Programming (Android App Inventor) and Robotics
Camps begin at 9am and end at 3:30pm Monday to Friday. There will be an hour-long lunch break with planned social events for those staying in our dorms.