OUR
PHILOSOPHY
We believe all students deserve access to a robust academic environment rooted in community.
Our curriculum, schedule, and extracurricular activities are designed using educational best practices and prioritize the needs of students in Richmond’s East End.
We empower students to pursue new opportunities.
Rise Academy is intentionally small, and rooted in Christian values, ensuring each student’s unique identity is celebrated, their abilities are recognized, and their God-given potential is cultivated.
We know education requires intentional partnership
Faculty, families, and community partners collaborate to surround students with support and provide real-world learning experiences that prepare them to excel both in and outside the classroom.
We ensure students can make positive change in their communities.
We help students develop resilience, confidence, empathy, and critical-thinking skills, and instill in them the core values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence.
Our purpose is to graduate students who are equipped to lead, succeed, and meaningfully engage with the world around them.
The Rise Academy Prayer
Father, thank you for being in our lives and for having plans to give us a prosperous future. Thank you that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength. We are grateful that you never change and that your purposes for us are constant and trustworthy. In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.
(Jeremiah 29:11; Philippians 4:13; Malachi 3:6, NIV)
Core values
Respect
A Rise student accepts others for who they are and as they are. They are open, honest, kind, and care enough to think about how their actions impact and affect our school community.
Integrity
A Rise student does what is right, even when no one is looking. A Rise student behaves in ways that earn the trust of others. They respect and adhere to the Rise Honor Code.
Service
A Rise student loves their neighbor as themselves. They offer to assist, help, or encourage their peers and teachers. Service to others can include our Rise community as well as the greater community of Church Hill and Fulton. A Rise student makes a positive impact on the lives of others by serving with a humble heart.
Excellence
A Rise student strives to be the best they can be even if that means making errors along the way. A Rise student uses all of the resources given to them and applies maximum effort to all that they do. This applies to academics, athletics, and striving to be a student that rises to the top by showing respect, integrity, and service.