Rivermont Collegiate

The experience of a Rivermont Collegiate education is fundamentally unique. Rivermont Collegiate serves high-achieving, academically driven students and prepares them for success in college and career, yet our commitment to students extends far beyond the classroom. We hold that greatness emerges not from classroom rigor alone, but from a symphony of intellectual, cultural, and physical inspirations. We are proud that our distinctive multicultural community develops global citizens ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

On our breathtaking campus, we celebrate students’ unique gifts and inspire them to reach their potential. We work diligently to ensure all students achieve success while maintaining personal balance. Students laugh, play, and find joy within our culture of excellence, achieved through cultivating curiosity, taking chances, risking failure, and maintaining the highest standards, all in an environment of support and encouragement. The unique Rivermont experience has proven itself, even among the nation’s top independent schools, in fact, several independent sources have named Rivermont the number one college prep school in Iowa.

Indeed, Rivermont delivers an accelerated curriculum and outstanding college-prep experience. In this remarkable setting, we aim to develop students’ highest potential and, by so doing, prepare them to serve the world beyond.

Rivermont Collegiate is dedicated to academic excellence and maximizing the potential of each student through a nurturing, stimulating, and structured environment that advances the individual’s intellect, character, and creativity while guiding students on a path of life-long learning, prepared to engage fully in their local, national, and global communities. Rivermont Collegiate Recognized as the Quad Cities’ Pre-Eminent Provider of Preschool through 12th Grade Education. Our Beliefs:

• High expectations and standards set the tone for excellence and call students to do their best.
• Students thrive in an environment where the student to teacher ratio assures personal attention.
• Partnership with parents develops the potential in each child.
• Each student has special talents and aptitudes that need to be nurtured and developed.
• Participation in school activities and programs should be open to all students to explore and develop their talents and interests.
• Students’ progress through developmental stages that afford the school opportunities to develop skills, deepen knowledge, and nurture creativity.
• Students develop authentic self-esteem and confidence through diligence, accountability, and personal responsibility for learning, behavior, and attitudes.
• Education is never complete. It is a life-long process that encompasses the mind, heart, and spirit in tangible experiences in scholarship, service, and performance both artistic and athletic.
• Students grow and learn from experiences with significant adults who model compassion, scholarship, conviction, and integrity.
• Diversity of thought and culture within the school community encourages real exchanges of perspectives, and mutual respect and understanding.
• The future of a democratic society depends upon the intellect, participation, and character of its children.