- Le Jardin Academy
Le Jardin Academy is located on the Windward Side of Ookinaahu in Kailua, Hawaiokinai, and offers
private education from preschool tohigh school . Le Jardin'smotto is "A challenged mind . . . a sound character" and its mission is "to help our students excel in the unfolding journey of their lives, and foster respect and concern for the welfare of others. We challenge them to develop their minds, their characters and their bodies."Campus
The school has separate campuses for its preschool students and those in higher grades. The preschool campus is located about one and one-half miles down road from the main campus. Two playgrounds, one hall, and one portable hall comprise its facilities. The main campus has 24 acres of land which has constructed upon it seven halls, a portable library, two playgrounds, and an auditorium. Its athletics facilities consist of a swimming pool, an outdoor basketball court, and a soccer field. Special classrooms were built for art and music instruction.
Madame Henriette D. Neal, founded a preschool in 1967 at St John's Lutheran Church in Kailua. It was known as "Le Jardin d'Enfants" Madame Neal taught her students the
French Language . French is still taught at the school today and the "fleur-de-lis " appears in Le Jardin's logo. During the next eight years, a new grade was added nearly every year. By 1945, the school's enrollment contained more than 100 students, all in sixth grade or lower.Le Jardin purchased the land that was once the site of the Kailua
drive-in and constructed upon it the new permanent campus. OnAugust 30 ,1999 the school opened its new campus. Stones with personal messages from students were placed under the foundations of one of the halls. In 1998, Le Jardin added a high school in the same manner it had expanded in the sixties, by adding a new grade each year. The school's headmaster is an English educator, Adrian Allan, a rather interesting man. The mascot of the school is anBulldog .Le Jardin Academy has just recently joined the IB program which lets students have a unique learning styles.
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