The Delphian School:
The Delphian School, located on 800 acres in Oregon's scenic Willamette Valley 60 miles southwest of Portland, is an independent, co-educational day and boarding school offering college preparatory, English-as-a-Second-Language & summer programs for elementary through high school students. Boarding students are accepted from the age of 8, day students from the age of 5. There are currently 240 students enrolled and 55 teaching faculties.

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The Delphian School is registered with the Oregon Department of Education, is a member of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools and a candidate member of the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools.

Curriculum
We offer a full K-12 program with a complete curriculum in each school (Lower School, Elementary School, Middle School, Upper School). Also: ESL English Programs & Summer Programs.

Our mission is to give young people a rich academic background, a strong sense of ethics and a broad range of abilities to successfully launch them into higher education, a career and life itself.

Our Students
The school is authorized under Federal Law to enroll non-immigrant alien students. As well as having students from all over the United States, Delphi has students from countries all around the world such as Canada, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, China, Austria, Cambodia and Hong Kong.

The Delphian School is both a boarding and a day school; some students board during the week and go home on the weekends (five-day boarders). Boarding is available to students from the age of eight, and the day school accepts students from the age of five. With most students boarding, Delphi is a lively community all day, seven days a week.

Boarding students live in dormitories on campus. There are nine dormitories - five boys' dorms and four girls' dorms. Most rooms are designed for double occupancy, with access to shared bathrooms. The dormitories are in the main building, except for the newest one, which has its own lounge/kitchen facility and laundry room. Furnishings include single beds (often bunked), dressers, desks, shelves and closet space. Resident staff live in end units of each dorm to provide a friendly, homey environment for students. Junior and senior students serve as dorm captains to help students learn to live and work well together and to create dorm parties and games.

Students should be prepared for a schedule brimming with activity from early in the morning through the evening hours, nearly every day of the week. The weekends are typically a little more relaxed, but trips, sporting events and a variety of social activities keep things hopping even then. Students will find it an atmosphere of both fun and challenge and will be invited to help create it.

We offer a full K-12 program with a complete curriculum in each school (Lower School, Elementary School, Middle School, Upper School). Also: ESL English Programs & Summer Programs. The school is authorized under Federal Law to enroll non-immigrant alien students.

Students begin the curriculum with courses on how to study and academic basics. They move forward when fully competent at both, as all further study builds on these. The academic program is built around a comprehensive curriculum designed to work in conjunction with the study methods used. Over 350 courses (checksheets) covering the full spectrum of subjects have been developed specifically for the Delphi curriculum. Many of the courses are required, but students also choose many elements of their program based on personal interest. Elective checksheets/courses on a wide range of subjects and levels are available.

Students planning to continue their education at the university level and beyond will structure their academic program to include those requirements. With this planning, Delphi students are typically able to enter the educational institution of their choice upon graduation.

Individual Programming

Shortly after enrollment, every Delphi student works out with the faculty a study program based on his interests, strengths and weaknesses, as developed in interviews and through diagnostic testing. Some students arrive at the school with one or more "holes" in their existing education, and part of the initial task is to identify these holes and plan a "repair" before they become any more of a problem. Then the student can embark on his full (and still individualized) academic program.

A student moves as quickly through the program as he wishes, as long as he ensures along the way that the material studied is not only understood, but can be applied. Practical application is a significant element of the Delphi approach and accounts for a good percentage of the student's activities, particularly in the upper levels.

As they progress through the Upper School, students begin to focus on their particular areas of interest by selecting an area of specialization such as science and technology, the humanities, business, or fine arts. This is the culmination of the whole program — professional preparation for whatever the next step of the student is to be.