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Medina, Ohio is home to many excellent public schools, private schools, and colleges. Each school in Medina strives to provide a safe, fun learning environment while encouraging students to grow both academically and socially. Parents and teachers challenge their students on a daily basis to reach their full potential and to complete the goals they have set.

Medina Public Schools

Medina City Schools

Medina City School District continues to grow in enrollment more and more each year. The area provides excellent benefits for not only students, but for parents as well. Within the past few years, there has been an addition to the new elementary school and the high school has been completely renovated.

The Medina Kindergarten Center serves the elementary children from H.G. Blake Elementary school and houses Helping Hands Preschool. There are both morning and afternoon sessions offered. The district offers five elementary schools for students in the area. Each school has the same curriculum and resources, but features a little bit of their own charm and personality at each. There are two middle schools in Medina. Medina High School is a comprehensive high school accredited by the North Central Association. The school offers over 200 in college preparatory and technical arts.

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Medina Private Schools

St. Francis Xavier Elementary School
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In keeping with the directives of the Bishops of the United States, Saint Francis Xavier School, a living Faith Community, reaches out to the individual, extending the message of the Gospel.
The entire staff strives to integrate religious truths and values with academic knowledge and skills, in order to help each young person reach his/her fullest potential. In this manner, we hope to assist him/her in developing spiritually, morally, emotionally, physically, intellectually and socially.
Realizing that parents are the first and primary teachers, Saint Francis Xavier School makes every effort to encourage creativity and to educate the "whole person” thereby developing basic lessons of obedience, respect for life, law and order, and consideration for one another, begun in the home.
With the above philosophy in mind, we are preparing students who are able to provide capable and effective leadership in today's society.

Medina Christian Academy Elementary
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• The study of God's Word is a priority at MCA.
• Bible Class is required for all grade levels.
• Biblical truths are integrated throughout the curriculum.
• Knowledge of the Bible is one of the greatest educational assets anyone can have in addition to the moral and spiritual values resulting from the study of it.
• Character development is the most important work of a school. No other course offered in the school affords so great an opportunity for laying the foundation for a good and sound character.

The Goddard School
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The Goddard School is dedicated to providing the foundation to encourage each child’s lifelong love of learning in a safe and nurturing environment by:
-offering a wide range of enriching activities to meet the needs of each child
-focusing on building each child's emotional, social, cognitive and physical skills
-offering multi-cultural and developmentally appropriate materials and equipment
-complying with Quality Assurance Reviews and parent surveys conducted by GSI
-supporting the professional development of teachers through GSU
-offering open communication with families in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

Nurtury Elementary School
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At the Nurtury, our name says it all. We are all nurtured here - children, parents and teachers. This is a place to be loved, respected and given encouragement to learn and grow.
The Nurtury® provides a warm, loving and caring environment for your child to learn, grow and develop school readiness and social development skills. Children develop to their fullest potential in family-based groupings (siblings stay together), while obtaining age-based instruction in development sessions.
From age 2-1/2 through 5th grade, we provide a variety of developmental courses such as half-day and full-day preschool, and school-age extended day programs (before and after school) that foster growth and education in a safe, warm, home-away-from-home environment. Our private kindergarten saves your child from being shuttled back and forth from school and day-care.

Kids Country Elementary School
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Kids Country offers high quality educational childcare environments for children six weeks through ten years of age. Our goal is to work in partnership with parents to provide each child with the opportunity to grow to his fullest potential. The Kids Country environment has been created to nurture, educate, and challenge each child. Age-appropriate learning programs are offered that challenge each child physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. Our preschool classes feature cooperative- learning and peer-teaching through the use of multi-age classrooms.

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Medina Colleges and Universities

Walsh University
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At first, Walsh offered a

liberal arts curriculum with majors in secondary education and business administration, as well as pre-professional programs in dentistry, medicine and law. Today, Walsh's 2,700 students can select from more than 50 undergraduate majors and five graduate degrees including a doctorate of physical therapy.
This wonderful Catholic higher-education resource has continued to grow and prosper for more than 46 years because the Brothers of Christian Instruction, and those who have built on their efforts, had a vision - a vision that built Walsh University.

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