Potential is a Gift
Excellence is a Habit
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    Academic Excellence
  • BW HP: Effective Character Development
    Effective Character Development
  • BW HP: The Becoming Life
    The Becoming Life
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    Our Teachers
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    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
  • 19% 19%
    of graduates receive
    National Merit Recognition
  • 95% 95%
    of graduates attend top
    private/public high schools
  • 239 239
    students qualified for National
    History Day finals since 1987
  • 6 6
    teams qualified for Future Problem
    Solving international since 2008
  • 35 35
    countries and 24 languages
    represented in our family community
  • 2020 2020
    MathCounts Chapter Competition
    1st Place Winner 
  • 2019 2019
    Top 300
    Broadcom Masters Winner 

News and Events

List of 3 news stories.

  • Scholastics Awards Birchwood School of Hawken Writers

    The nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens has awarded local teens their highest honors. Each year Scholastic Art and Writing Awards accepts entries from seventh through twelfth-grade students in 28 categories. They are then blindly adjudicated by some of the foremost leaders in the visual and literary arts for originality, technical skill, and authentic and unique point of view.
    Local Birchwood School students received the highest honors for their writing.
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  • Birchwood’s Math Students Rank in the Top 10%

    This fall second through fourth grade students nationwide competed online in the semiannual, problem-solving, Noetic Learning Math Contest. Birchwood School’s second grade team was among the top 10% of teams in that grade, earning the Team Achievement Award. Individual students in both second and third grade earned the National Honor Roll award for being in the 10% of all participants in their grade.
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  • Locally Crafted Fairy Tales Win International Recognition

    Two Birchwood seventh grade students won Stone Soup’s monthly flash contest in which young writers are given a prompt and the winning entries are published in their literary magazine. November’s prompt was, “Write a Story that begins with ‘Once upon a time in a land far away. . .’ and ends with ‘. . . and they all lived happily ever after.’’’
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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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