Academics
102
Students
8:1
Student-To-Teacher Ratio
80%
Teachers with Advanced Degrees
1:1
Technology
4 Years
College & Career Counseling
6 Years
Post-High School Support
Own your learning. Own your success.
Quest Forward Academy students are active learners.
Our students immerse themselves in a rich, relevant curriculum of project-based learning.
Our teachers work as mentors, supporting student inquiry, practice, and mastery. Small classes enable personalized learning and propel growth.
Learning goes beyond academics: Academy students develop the mindset, lifelong habits, and academic skills they need to excel in their education and in their chosen careers.
Learn more about the essential features of Quest Forward Learning.
Community
At Quest Forward Academy, learning is deeply personal. Students engage, driving their own learning by participating actively in classes, projects, and internships. Classes are small, enabling teachers to give personal attention to students to help them ensure they are challenged, working effectively, and progressing. (That’s one reason why you’ll hear us call our teachers “mentors.”) Classes shift between group and individual work every day, ensuring students are benefiting from social learning and collaboration as well as making individual progress.
Our school year is built from 4 eight-week terms. Intersession, the last two weeks of the school year, offers the perfect opportunity for hands-on learning (robotics, food science, art, and more) and internships at local organizations and businesses. Many continue internships beyond intersession.
In their last 2 years at Quest Forward Academy, students can modify their schedules to accommodate dual enrollment at local community colleges, and many of our students earn college credits while at the Academy.
“Teachers engage them more in their learning. She loves that. It helps her to think critically. She gets the opportunity to use her personal talents, to show that she’s mastering what she learns… that’s exactly what she needed.”
– Lisa, Parent
Course of Study
Our academic program engages students in meaningful, challenging, sustained work that builds study habits and academic skills needed to succeed in education and career.
Each subject area offers term-long courses, which are made up of projects — called “quests” — that lead students through the subject, practicing skills, and ultimately producing a mastery artifact. Students excel by learning the academic material and showing mastery on their artifacts, instead of by completing worksheets or taking tests. Courses vary in level of difficulty and range, from early high school through university level. In each, students develop essential skills for further learning and work.
Our academic materials are primarily digital, and students access them via school-supplied Chromebook computers. Quest Forward Academy’s curriculum meets the requirements of the Nebraska Department of Education, as well as other national standards.
Download the Course of Study Book
Student Progress and Performance
At most high schools, students move at the same pace, and progress is measured by graded tests. At Quest Forward Academy, students can choose to work at the common classroom pace, or move at their own, appropriate pace.
Teachers assess student artifacts (products students produce while working on projects) on demonstration of learning, timeliness, effort, and suitability. Parents receive weekly, detailed updates that show what their student worked on during the week, which skills they practiced, and the artifacts involved in demonstrating mastery of the material. Quest Forward Academy also provides a traditional grade-based transcript for students applying to post-secondary institutions or scholarship opportunities.
Support from High School to Career
For our students, planning their path beyond high school starts on the first day in 9th grade. Each student joins the Pathways Program, through which they receive full 4 years of career and college counseling and ACT/SAT preparation. Each student also participates in 2 or more internships off-campus.
When students graduate from Quest Forward Academy, they are supported through their choice of college, career education, the military, or a job with training opportunities and into their first job, to ensure their success in those steps.
The Pathways Program is available to students in all schools that offer Quest Forward Learning and is funded by Opportunity Education.
Clubs
In addition to formal academics, students engage in a variety of clubs and extracurricular activities. Organized by the students themselves and supervised by mentors, clubs provide an opportunity for students to pursue their interests together, while also developing important leadership skills.
See if Quest Forward Academy is right for your student with a free, one-on-one consultation from an Admissions Counselor.
Upcoming Events
Columbus Day (No School)
October 9 2023
School will be closed Monday, October 9, 2023 in observance of Columbus Day. Classes will resume on Tuesday, October 10th.
Parent-Mentor Conferences (Currently Enrolled Families)
October 13 2023, 10am - 4pm
This will be a short meeting between parents/guardians and their student’s mentors to discuss their student’s academic performance and experience at school. These meetings will help parents understand what their student is learning at school, their academic and social-emotional progress, and what parents/guardians can do to support them.
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