Dear Rivermont Community,

The Quad Cities enjoys a quality of life that provides its residents with opportunities and amenities found in large metropolitan communities while maintaining a familiar and close-knit climate. Employment includes high tech and low tech, service and professional, industrial and creative opportunities. Shopping, dining, culture, and leisure are five star and all star. Quad Citians also enjoy diversity in educational options. The higher education landscape offers first class public, private, and medical institutions with many additional options in close proximity. On the elementary and secondary front, parents can choose public, parochial, secular, home, virtual, and independent schools that each provide a particular approach to learning and set students on paths for success and involvement in their communities.

Rivermont has been part of this landscape for 128 years, guiding students from all walks of life to maximize their talents and find their passion. Our alums are artists, physicians, researchers, lawyers, teachers, entrepreneurs, community leaders, spiritual leaders, builders, and thinkers who make their communities stronger and raise principled and eager children. This has been possible first and foremost due to Rivermont's commitment to providing a small learning environment that fosters curiosity and active participation. Rivermont is noted for its dedication to providing rigorous instruction in core subjects guided by teachers who inspire students to go beyond even their own goals. The School makes it difficult for students to hide from challenge or lose themselves in the shuffle. The small learning environment allows teachers to monitor subtle indicators of performance like facial expressions, lapses in attention, or a willingness to volunteer responses for some questions but not for others. Quality feedback and timely challenge and support are the norm. Rivermont teachers have flexibility in choosing curricula and materials that address the diverse needs and interests of their students. In this environment, students of average ability learn more and study more than they normally would, while students with particular aptitudes can explore deeper topics.

We're proud to live in a community that, like Rivermont, is small but offers only the best! And like the Quad Cities, at Rivermont there are always new things to discover! You're already aware of what happens in your child's grade but have you explored the exciting things happening in other grades? Do it!

Have a great weekend,

Rick St. Laurent

Headmaster

P.S.  Bring a friend to Academic Fair and show them what Rivermont does!