Principal's Message
Welcome to Hampstead Hill Academy!
Hampstead Hill Academy is special. We are a safe school with
a caring, talented faculty focused on teaching students what
they need to know to succeed. Even in the elementary grades,
our eye is on high school, college and beyond. We want what
you want for your child; the very best opportunities and
choices life has to offer.
Our experienced staff was instrumental in our students
excelling on the state test again this year. HHA students
met every achievement and attendance goal set by the
Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). Also, our
students showed significant academic growth over the course
of the year on the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). As
you may know, MAP offers pre and post test data in reading
and math to help us measure student growth from the
beginning to the end of the year. With MAP, we can see
whether our planning and instruction add value to student
learning.
But life is about far more than test scores. It’s about discovery and building
the leaders of the next generation. It’s about making learning engaging and fun,
and getting kids ready for high school and college. We are busy preparing your
children by teaching them to write and to think for themselves; how to research,
evaluate and interpret information. Our charge is to build minds that move
beyond simple recall and comprehension; minds that can identify, analyze and
solve complex problems. A student who attends HHA from PreK through 8th grade
will be with us for 12,690 hours. To make those hours useful and interesting,
our students need to be active learners. They need to be able to retain,
transfer and synthesize what they learn in class.
We get better at this work every day. When students write and
revise their work, they are studying to become a leader. When
students research and develop an idea for a project fair, they
are studying to become a leader. When a student can show their
neighbor how to do something or explain why they are doing
something, they are studying to become a leader. This is the
work underway at Hampstead Hill Academy.
Please complete
the Student Pre-Registration Information form and
schedule a tour.
Sincerely,
Matthew Hornbeck
Principal