Oak Hall School

For forty-seven years, Oak Hall School has been committed to providing students with a learning environment that is physically safe and emotionally supportive, where intelligence and compassion are highly valued, and where close relationships between students and teachers are encouraged.

Under the guidance of an outstanding faculty, Oak Hall students across all grade levels engage in an intellectually dynamic and challenging academic program that is complemented by a host of co-curricular offerings, providing opportunities for them to explore their interests and talents to the fullest.

At Oak Hall, students play an active role in their learning. We are a school whose wide offerings in academics, athletics, the arts, and extracurricular activities give students incredible opportunities to discover their unique gifts and talents and to develop the confidence that grows from knowing that they have something of value to contribute to others.

Guided by the ideals of "Scholarship, Leadership, and Service," Oak Hall School serves young men and women from diverse backgrounds who can benefit from a challenging college preparatory program. We are committed to the liberal arts tradition, which sees education as the worthy pursuit of a lifetime, an end to itself as well as a means toward personal and social growth.

We believe in the power of a liberal arts education to transform lives, to develop unique talents, to enhance self-esteem, to build character, and to inspire a life-long love of learning. We seek to nurture in young people the qualities of intelligence, wisdom, and moral commitment, and to foster in them an impassioned curiosity about the world around them as well as the imagination to seek new solutions to problems.

Perhaps most important in furthering our mission is maintaining a family-like environment that is physically safe and emotionally supportive, where intelligence and compassion are highly valued, and where close relationships between students and teachers are encouraged.

Oak Hall School also seeks to provide many opportunities for our young people to develop in areas beyond acquiring essential academic skills. Our relatively small size, coupled with an array of extracurricular options, make it possible for each one of our students to play a leadership role in the rich daily life of our community. It is this unique blend of environment and opportunities - academic, athletic, artistic, and service - that provides students with the motivation to achieve academic excellence, to become leaders within their community, and to develop a strong sense of personal and social responsibility.

Our accelerated Lower School program focuses on ensuring that students attain a working fluency in fundamental skills across the curriculum. In Middle School those skills are more fully developed through an intensive exposure to the liberal arts while identifying and responding to each student's individual needs. The Upper School is entirely college preparatory, with Advanced Placement, honors and elective courses geared toward the admissions standards of the finest colleges and universities.

Oak Hall School’s mission statement was adopted more than a decade ago to reflect our school’s sense of purpose and to define our aspirations for our students. The words “global society” occupy a prominent place in that statement because we believe global awareness and cross-cultural experiences are critical components of a great education.

A commitment to global education recognizes the fact that the world is interconnected culturally, demographically, environmentally, economically, and electronically. We believe that there is no substitute for a hands-on, person to person cross-cultural experience. Our programs emphasize fostering long-term partnerships, international travel that includes homestays whenever possible, “digital exchanges,” as well as multiple opportunities to host and learn from international students. We often lead with the arts as they are universal and provide a window into other cultures.

As part of our on-going commitment to global education, Oak Hall School just completed a two-week exchange with Colegio Paulo Freire High School from Montevideo, Uruguay. Our connection to this school began several years ago when Señora Karow went to Uruguay as a Fulbright exchange teacher. Since then we have hosted six visiting teachers and administrators from various schools throughout Uruguay. This student exchange begins a relationship which will hope will bring our schools and our students closer together in the future.

Dozens of Oak Hall students are now in contact with students from Montevideo through snap chat and other social media and both visitors and hosts believe that they will continue this relationship. Colegio Paulo Freire has invited us to send 12 students to Montevideo for Spring Break 2018 to experience life in Uruguay and see the sights including Punta del Este, the hot springs in Salto, the capitol city of Montevideo, and Colonia – the original Portuguese settlement.

GRADES 6-12
Address: 8009 SW 14th Ave., FL
Postal Code: 32607
Phone: +1 352 3323609