& FAMILIES
Welcome To
John Dewey Academy
We provide an individualized, comprehensive and co-ed college preparatory education in a therapeutic setting. Our students are bright adolescents with a history of self-defeating or self-destructive choices. Our peer-based approach leads students to high levels of achievement and inspires them to develop in ways that promote self-respect, maturity and respect for others.
100%
GRADUATES
Attend
4-Year Top-Tier Colleges
6 : 1
CLINICIAN
To Student Ratio
3 : 1
TEACHER
To Student Ratio
100%
FACULTY
Hold Advanced Degrees
15 - 21
YEARS
Represents Age Range
3 - 4
STUDENTS
Per Class On Average
15 %
STUDENTS
Receive Financial Aid
20
STUDENTS
Enrolled On Average
100% College Placement
NOTE: JDA is not affiliated with, nor sponsored by, any of the colleges whose logos appear above. The logos above represent colleges that our graduates have attended.
Developing Leaders
Our Mission
The mission of The John Dewey Academy is to empower bright but underachieving adolescents to overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges in order to attend quality colleges and lead healthy, productive and successful lives.
Meet Our
Head of School
David Baum, PhD
Head of School
DAVID BAUM, PhD
Head of School
Before coming to Dewey in 2015, David spent most of his career in college teaching with a focus on courses in history, politics and film. He traces his love of history to his grandfather, who would ease the passage of time while they worked together on weekends at the family business by telling stories of the “old days” – World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and the home front during World War II. Through these reminiscences, he learned that the past truly was “another country,” exotic, exciting and as his grandfather had hoped, illuminating. His love of teaching developed later. While a graduate student at Yale, he found a calling as a TA and altered his career path from the foreign service to the classroom. After 30 years and over 6,000 students, he claims no regrets. There has been some adventure along the way: in his early years he survived his research stints in Italy during the infamous “Days of Lead” and in 2010-11 he had the opportunity to spend a year in Iraq helping to set up the social sciences program at the newly inaugurated American University. For excitement these days, David skis the local slopes and fully throws caution to the wind by walking alone after dark in his newly adopted home town of Pittsfield.
Transforming Lives
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JOHN DEWEY ACADEMY
389 Main Street
Great Barrington MA 01230
Admissions: (413) 528-0084
Phone: (413) 528-9800
Fax: (413) 528-5662
Email: Info@jda.org