Center Academy Cape Coral

The mission of Center Academy is to provide students with a learning environment that facilitates the development of self-confidence, motivation, and academic skills, and gives students the opportunity to achieve success in life. To accomplish this mission, Center Academy is guided by the following principles and goals:

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Financial Empowerment Scholarships are available to students with unique abilities or financial need.

The mission of Center Academy is to provide students with a learning environment that facilitates the development of self-confidence, motivation, and academic skills, and gives students the opportunity to achieve success in life. To accomplish this mission, Center Academy is guided by the following principles and goals:

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Center Academy will improve its students’ self-esteem, self-concept, and self-confidence.

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Center Academy will improve student motivation levels and inspire students to give their best efforts in all tasks they undertake.
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Center Academy will provide a “third place” for the student. A place beyond the home and school. It will provide a community of support for the young person. The community relationship will promote student, parent, and staff cohesiveness.
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Center Academy will prepare students for post-graduate studies while emphasizing the essential skills of reading, writing, and mathematics.

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Center Academy will remediate specific learning disabilities and other neuropsychological weaknesses, and at the same time teach compensatory strategies so that students can be successful as adults.
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Center Academy will develop staff loyalty by ensuring that all staff members, part-time and full-time, understand the significance of their work and share the goals and values of the school.

Center Academy began in 1968 with the vision of its founder,
Dr. Mack Hicks, who saw the need for a specialized,
full-day school for students who were falling through the cracks in traditional schools.

Center Academy began in 1968 with the vision of its founder, Dr. Mack Hicks. Seeing the need for a specialized, full-day school for students who were falling through the cracks in traditional schools, Dr. Hicks established one of the first schools in the United States to focus on the needs of students with Attention Deficit Disorder and other neuropsychological processing difficulties.

With a team of professionals in the fields of neuropsychology, education, and individualized remediation, Center Academy opened its first classrooms in a small church and then expanded to the Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school focused on remediating learning disabilities and providing a small, focused, and positive learning environment for students who had experienced academic frustration, and for whom tutoring and other part-time programs were not successful.