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Empowering You toTake Ownership of Your Learning
Preparing students to become global citizens starts with helping them understand their voices and intellectual gifts. We offer a rigorous college-preparatory education that takes a multidisciplinary approach, encouraging students to explore the creative spaces where ideas intersect and new solutions emerge and then apply those ideas in practical settings.

Our curriculum embodies an innovative approach to learning that empowers students to engage in research, analysis, and creative design by exploring real-world problems and developing innovative, practical, and relevant solutions to those problems. You'll be empowered to design a program of study to meet your needs and strengthen your interests. At Darrow, we offer over 150 courses and opportunities to dive deep into a specialized topic or field through personalized programs, such as performing arts, visual arts, hands-to-work, and independent study, to gain hands-on experience. Whether you're interested in using scientific means to analyze "physical crime evidence" or exploring how race is represented in art, Darrow has a course for you!

A Darrow education is active, differentiated, and inclusive.

• Active
  means that you are not just passively absorbing content but actively constructing knowledge and creating meaning. You'll experience dynamic labs, the writing process, projects, and presentations. Your work will connect to the real work of people in your discipline.
• Differentiated
  means that our courses have clear learning goals in content and skills but offer flexibility in when and how students demonstrate their learning. Plus, we provide robust supports -office hours, additional scaffolding of assignments, supplementary materials, and coordination with Learning Skills coaches. At the same time, our faculty will challenge you in supportive ways to deepen or go beyond the core skills.
• Inclusive
  means that our classes are welcoming, engaging, and appropriately rigorous because we honor a wide range of backgrounds, learning styles, and cultures. We work to ensure diversity in our readings, guest speakers, and lesson materials. We offer support when challenging issues arise.We communicate clear and transparent standards or assessment criteria so you know what to expect. Plus, we all grow from our mistakes, so the opportunity for revision is a part of the learning process.

ACADEMIC RESOURCES
As a small community, we work with students beyond the academic classroom to foster a holistic approach to personal enrichment. We offer a variety of programs, support services, and resources dedicated to ensuring that the Darrow experience is rewarding while meeting our students' individual needs.

• Sample of notable school alumni/alumnae:
  • Charles Conrad - Apollo 12 Commander, third man to walk on the moon
  • Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo - Radio Sportscaster, Author
  • Sam Harper, '79 - Screenplay writer of Cheaper by the Dozen & Cheaper by the Dozen II
  • Bill Hudnut - Former mayor of Indianapolis & Congressman, author