North Yarmouth Academy (Also known as "NYA") is an independent, co-ed, college preparatory day school serving students in grades 5-12 located in Yarmouth, Maine. NYA offers a structured program that sets clear standards and high expectations in an environment that emphasizes values of mutual respect, trust and community. The Head of School is Brad Choyt, with Stephan Bachelder heading the Board of Trustees. NYA has 265 enrolled students with an average class size of 14 students. NYA offers 16 interscholastic sports for both Boys and Girls at the Varsity and Junior Varsity Level.
NYA students carry five academic courses plus electives each year and are required to participate in athletics or theatre each season/semester. In 2011, 85 students took 146 Advanced Placement Exams in 15 subjects. Eighty-two percent scored a 3 or higher, 56% scored a 4 or 5. In 2011, NYA had 27 Advanced Placement Scholars: 10 Advanced Placement Scholars, 6 Advanced Placement Scholars with Honor, 11 Advanced Placement Scholars with Distinction, and 1 Advanced Placement Scholar. NYA offers 16 Advanced Placement courses. Beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, NYA offers a French Immersion Program and Mandarin Chinese as part of its Modern and Classical Languages Department.
NYA student athletes participate on a variety of varsity athletic teams. NYA believes that valuable life lessons are learned through team sports. All NYA students in grades 6-12 participate in team sports or approved alternatives 3 seasons per year. More than 40% of graduates continue to play intercollegiate sports. NYA students also are accomplished musicians and actors. One hundred percent of Middle School students and 73% of Upper School students participate in a musical ensemble. There are currently 12 musical ensembles offered at NYA.
NYA develops each student's sense of accountability, responsibility, and citizenship through ongoing campus jobs and community service. During the 2010-2011 school year, NYA students gave more than 4,500 hours to community service, assisting more than 55 community and civic organizations in the Greater Portland, Maine area.
From 2001 to 2011, NYA built a $3M science center (the Peter W. Mertz Science Center, 2006), has renovated the oldest building on campus (Russell Hall, 2009) into a foreign language center, added an all-weather athletic (turf) field, built the Priscilla Savage Middle School in 2003 and increased endowment for faculty enrichment and student diversity. These projects were completed through successful capital campaigns that included all members of the greater NYA community and incurred no additional debt for the Academy.
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