We Are Summit
Summit Schools is the only accredited, private, independent, non-parochial PreKindergarten-Middle School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For over 25 years our multisensory approach to learning allows our students to excel while providing special attention to the individual needs and gifts of each child. Families choose Summit Schools for an educational approach that customizes learning for each student’s strengths, needs, skills, and interests.
By integrating mindfulness and the appropriate use of technology into education, we aim to empower our students to affect positive change and become future community leaders. At Summit, children become self-directed learners.
Mission Statement:
Summit Schools empowers each student to exceed their academic, social, and emotional goals to ensure a lifetime of success and personal fulfillment.
Vision Statement:
Empowering individuals to succeed in the global community by fostering critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity both independently and collaboratively.
We were initially drawn to Summit because of the small class sizes, individual attention, and personalized learning opportunities. We have grown to love Summit in the past few years because of the caring, family-oriented community and the nurturing teachers and staff who help our young son to feel at ease and at home. There is a wonderful and deep emphasis on community, inclusion, sensitivity to individual needs, and helping children grow not only academically, but socially and emotionally, so that they are happy, secure, confident, and excited about learning.
My son is a completely different kid after his first year at Summit. He is excited and eager to go to school, which is a huge transformation from past years at other schools. The teachers are incredible – he feels such love and support from them. Summit is an environment where he feels safe to learn, explore, be challenged, and grow.
I want to thank you. We wanted to surprise our daughter and get her out of school early. Upon arrival she didn’t want to go home early. I don’t think I can ever recall a time when my parents called me out of school early and I wasn’t racing to the office. What 10-year-old doesn’t want to come home early from school?! She didn’t want to miss being a part of class. It’s things like this that make Summit UNIQUE. You have no idea how much you have changed our lives for the best, and we are thankful every day to be a part of Summit Schools.
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Summit celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023, and students, parents, and faculty explain the difference a Summit education and experience can make.
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Summit Senior Walk 2025
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Summit Schools’ eagerly anticipated 2025 Summer Camps guide and online registration are here! Summit summer camps run June 9-August 1. Online
Summit 2025-26 enrollment is open!
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