Kentwood Academy recognizes that a love of learning is essential to continuous learning and that education is a process, not a product. Kentwood Academy, a community based educational partnership for students, assures success by providing a warm, structured, supportive, therapeutic environment that enables a target population to work cohesively with peers, staff, parents and community. The school and it's program are based on the belief that all students can learn and succeed in a variety of ways. The program focuses on multiple intelligences and constructve learning. Kentwood Academy offers non-traditional, project based, interdisciplinary, thematic educational opportunities and experiences that are tailored to the needs of the students.

Students can learn and succeed in a variety of ways.

Learning is greatest when there are high expectations for student achievement.

Confidences and competency build upon each other and enhance students’ self-esteem.

There are many types of environments and structures within which learning may occur.

Learning is an active partnership that involves students, parents, community, and the school.

Learning is a life-long process and is evidenced by students’ abilities to share what they know and what they can do.