Mountain Academy
Jackson Campus
Welcome to the Jackson Campus
The Jackson Campus is home to over 100 curious students. Our campus is filled with joy, energy, and academic passion from 18 months – 8th grade.
Jackson Campus By The Numbers
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Students call Jackson Campus home
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Educational Approach
At Mountain Academy, we use Project-Based Learning (PBL) to allow students to learn authentically about the world through in-depth inquiry, design, and sharing with a public audience. This dynamic approach to teaching and learning compels students to explore real-world questions and challenges while simultaneously developing interdisciplinary understandings and interpersonal skills. Projects can be as short as a few weeks or as long as a few months.
The Jackson Campus
Journey
Early Childhood
The Mountain Academy Early Childhood program for children ages 3-5 empowers children to construct their own learning.
Lower School
As students transition from Early Childhood, Mountain Academy’s Lower School continues to focus on learner-centered education to allow children’s ideas and interests to drive the curriculum.
Middle School
The Mountain Academy Middle School program focuses on pairing essential academic skills with authentic, real-world learning.
Explore Our
Academics
Farm and Garden
All learners at Mountain Academy gain first-hand experience in sustainable food production, healthy meal preparation, humane farm animal care, and ecological land stewardship. The Teton Valley Campus is home to MA’s farm, and all learners participate in planting the campus garden and greenhouses in the spring, composting and mixing soil, selecting, maintaining, and harvesting crops, cooking garden meals, preserving food, and caring for farm animals (chickens, goats, and cats).
Outdoor Education
Outdoor education at Mountain Academy creates an awareness of the relationship between the environment and human life, harnesses an appreciation for the environment, and encourages students to learn about human and natural systems while using problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Students focus on learning outcomes from health and wellness, science, and community to culture domains.
Journeys
A Journey is a direct, off-campus experience in the ecological or cultural environment that serves as an essential part of learning. We take both single-day and extended multi-day Journeys into our local and global communities. Our Journeys include thoughtful faculty planning and meaningful student inquiry, integrating curriculum, and creating and deepening one’s sense of place by connecting our curriculum to real-world issues and needs.
Campus Contact Information
Mountain Academy Jackson Campus
700 Coyote Canyon Road
Jackson, Wyoming 83001
Phone Number
307.733.3720
Mountain Academy Teton Valley Campus
192 W. Birch Street
Victor, Idaho 83455
Phone Number
208.787.0445
