New Horizons Academy is a year-round boarding school. Students attend for 24 days per month every month of the year. Each school month starts on the 1st of the month and ends on the 24th of that month. Students drive or fly home on the 24th. It is important for the family to have the remainder of the month together.
We take two longer breaks per year (two weeks each): Spring Break and Christmas Break.
School is in session Monday-Saturday from 9am-4pm.
On weekday evenings students often play games, do crafts and art projects, practice musical instruments, read books, hang with friends, or do nothing at all, free time is free, and it is nice to be your own boss for a few hours!
On Sundays the students sleep in (usually until noon! Good grief!) and then we all go wherever they want to go. Often they choose Barnes and Noble, one of various Malls, the Halloween Store, the movies, food trucks or paint balling, what ever they want! Honestly they come up with new things every month, so it is hard to list them all. Sometimes they just want to go to Target and Pizza Hut and then come back and hang out with their friends. Again, everyone needs to be boss sometimes.
Sample Weekday Schedule
8am wake up and stretches/exercises
8:45 am Breakfast served
9:15am-12am Morning work period
Noon – 1pm Lunch
1pm – 4pm Second study period
4pm – 6pm free time
6pm – 7pm Dinner
7pm – 9:30 pm free time/art activities/games/independent study
10pm lights out
2024 School Dates
Here are the dates for 2024 as well as we can predict them. Should there be any changes, we will give as much advance warning as possible.
December 20, 2023 fly home
January 4, 2024 – fly to school
January 24 – fly home
February 1 – fly to school
February 22 – fly home
March 1 – fly to school
March 20 – fly home – Spring Break
April 3 – fly to school
April 24 – fly home
May 1 – fly to school
May 24 – fly home
June 1 – fly to school
June 24 – fly home
July 1 – fly to school
July 24 – fly home
August 1 – fly to school
August 24 – fly home
September 1 – fly to school
September 24 – fly home
October 1 – fly to school
October 24 – fly home
November 1 – fly to school
November 24 fly home
December 1 – fly to school
December 20, 2024 – fly home Xmas
January 4, 2025 – fly to school
2025 School Dates
December 20, 2024 fly home
January 4, 2025 – fly to school
January 24 – fly home
February 1 – fly to school
February 21 – fly home
March 1 – fly to school
March 21- fly home – Spring Break
April 6- fly to school
April 24 – fly home
May 1 – fly to school
May 24 – fly home
June 1 – fly to school
June 24 – fly home
July 1 – fly to school
July 24 – fly home
August 1 – fly to school
August 24 – fly home
September 1 – fly to school
September 24 – fly home
October 1 – fly to school
October 24 – fly home
November 1 – fly to school
November 24 fly home
December 1 – fly to school
December 20, 2025 – fly home Xmas
January 4, 2026 – fly to school