Overview

The Delphian School began as the dream of a small group of educators in the early 1970s to build a new kind of learning environment. Dr. Alan Larson, the Founding Headmaster of the school and several of his colleagues dedicated themselves to the goal of reversing the downward trending standards in education.

Mission

Our mission is to give young people a rich academic background, a strong sense of ethics and a broad range of abilities to successfully launch them into higher education, a career and life itself.

More broadly, help build a better world through effective education.

What does this mission mean in practice?

Within a close-knit community and lively campus environment, Delphi students are given highly personal attention from instructors, an individualized academic program and a focus on demonstrated competence rather than memorization of facts or time spent in class. Students learn to not only understand what they study, but also become competent in the use of logic and reason.

As part of a student body that takes a highly active role in all school activities, students will hold positions of increasing responsibility and learn their own lessons about ethics, integrity and leadership. All these ingredients then come together to make a rich and rewarding launch into life.

The school owes a debt of gratitude to American philosopher and educator L. Ron Hubbard, whose extensive writings include many treatises concerning education and career preparation, as well as the development of responsibility and ethical strength. It was through application of the ideas in these materials and the trial by fire of classrooms that address real life, that the philosophy of the school came to maturity.

Each high school graduate meets specific ability requirements, all encompassed within these general graduation requirements:

Graduates should have excellent language and communication skills, both oral and written, and be familiar with their cultural heritage through literature.
Graduates should be literate in mathematics as the language of science and technology and be computer literate.
Graduates should have a foundation in science and its applications adequate to permit them to participate causatively in the modern technological environment.
Graduates should have a usable understanding of the subjects of ethics, personal integrity and morals adequate to provide a foundation for their creation of their lives.
Graduates should have an understanding of history and the role of individuals in it adequate to enable them to analyze and evaluate current events and situations against the historical backdrop.
Graduates should be proficient students, and be able to be responsible for their further educations, and for the investigation and evaluation of data important to their lives.
Graduates should understand the basics of planning, and the interrelationship of leadership, responsibility and trust, as well as having competently held a position of trust and responsibility in a group.