Potential is a Gift
Excellence is a Habit
  • BW HP: Academic Excellence
    Academic Excellence
  • BW HP: Effective Character Development
    Effective Character Development
  • BW HP: The Becoming Life
    The Becoming Life
  • BW HP: Signature Programs
    Signature Programs
  • BW HP: Our Teachers
    Our Teachers
  • BW HP: Gifted Education
    Gifted Education
Our mission is to equip children to lead a life of becoming 
– growing, thriving and flourishing – 
through the development of intellect and character.








“We lift the academic ceiling. Children can go as far as they can at whatever pace they can...”





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Developing the individual:
living a becoming life.
  • 99% 99%
    Iowa scores compared
    to national school norms
  • 8:1 8:1
    student-teacher
    ratio
  • 15% 15%
    of graduates receive
    National Merit Recognition
  • 100% 100%
    of graduates attend top
    private/public high schools
  • 78 78
    students qualified for National
    History Day finals since 2007
  • 5 5
    teams qualified for Future Problem
    Solving international since 2008


News and Events

List of 3 news stories.

  • Birchwood Students Win National Publication

    Six Birchwood students were awarded recognition in Cricket magazine’s September story-writing contest and were published in the January 2019 edition. This national competition invited children to submit a story about an act of kindness. Zain Daoud earned an Honorable Mention award. Mei-Li Mann won second prize for her story entitled “Hanging with My Cousins” about including family members in a gymnastics practice session. Ted Alten, Kartik Gulati, and Zain Abbas also received Honorable Mentions for their creative stories. Jonathan Samulak’s piece, “An Act of Kindness,” about being the recipient of kindness by strangers, garnered third place.
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  • Birchwood Students Finish in the top 5% in American Mathematics Competition

    Birchwood students, Ehren Collins, John Shin, Samuel Pan, Aidan Berard, Angela Shang, and Rebecca Chin, finished among the top 5% of all math students in the US in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 8).
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  • Birchwood’s 4 th Grade Wins Noetic Learning Math Contest

    Birchwood’s 4th grade class received the Team Achievement Award in the 2018 Noetic Learning Math Contest. This award is given to teams who place in the top 10% of participating teams. These young mathematicians also placed first out of all Ohio teams.  Four students also earned National Honor Roll recognition: Manya Raina, Joshua Gordon, Ayat Jaffar, and Ted Alten.
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Birchwood School of Hawken is a member of the Ohio Association of Independent Schools (OAIS), the Cleveland Council of Independent Schools (CCIS), the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). Birchwood School is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States.



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