TALCOTT MOUNTAIN ACADEMY: OUR HISTORY

The Science Center was established in 1967 to further the understanding of science in the lives of students, teachers, and adults. It functions as a learning laboratory facilitating the use of sciences. As an outgrowth of the successful Saturday program, the decision was made to found a school based on these objectives.

In 1983, The Talcott Mountain Academy was founded as a model school for intellectually excited students as a division of the Talcott Mountain Science Center. The concept for the Academy evolved from a recognition that gifted and talented students from the Science Center programs would benefit from a wide range of academic offerings on a full-time basis which would address their special needs. The Academy shares the same board of directors and excellent "Talcott" resources such as teaching staff, equipment, and facilities. The Academy's mission is a nationally recognized school for gifted students with a full curriculum whose focus is on science, mathematics, and technology.

Located on a unique mountaintop site in Avon, Connecticut, Talcott Mountain Academy is a co-educational, independent day school for students in grades K-8. Since 1983, TMA has offered an exciting, multi-faceted, and integrated curriculum which is dedicated to preparing intellectually excited young people for a full and productive life in a technologically oriented world. Our diverse student body is racially and culturally mixed. The ratio of students to teachers is less than 8:1.

Using a variety of teaching styles, interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, our teachers encourage the development of problem solving, creativity and critical thinking skills. Our students are of above average ability, creative and task committed.