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Mission & Values

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Our mission: To ignite and nurture student curiosity, intellect, and character.

Battle Ground Academy provides a transformative educational experience, empowering bold and deep thinkers, equipping compassionate and engaged citizens, and preparing thoughtful and brave leaders to step into their futures and make a positive impact in our communities.

Our Values

For 135 years, Battle Ground Academy has held strong to “Character. Scholarship. Excellence.” as it has pursued its mission to ignite and nurture student curiosity, intellect, and character. They’re the ideals that inspire our faculty, staff, and students daily, still.

Character

In this community, we build on our own unique strengths, respect others’ inherent dignity, and search for opportunities to make this a better, fairer, more compassionate world.

  • A warm heart for others
  • A strong sense of self
  • Accountability, integrity, and resilience

Scholarship

In these classrooms, we embrace innovative learning, master core disciplines, and prepare ourselves for all that a rapidly changing, globally connected future may bring.

  • Intellectual agility
  • Endless curiosity
  • Deep thinking, wide horizons, and broad perspectives

Excellence

In our students and graduates, we celebrate a life-long capacity to revel in intellectual vigor and create in community.We pursue every worthwhile endeavor with passion.

  • Drive for achievement
  • Delight in exploration
  • Individual initiative, inclusive collaboration, and clear communication