Le Jardin Academy

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Le Jardin Academy is located on the Windward Side of Oʻahu in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, and offers private education from preschool to high school. Le Jardin's motto is "A challenged mind . . . a sound character" and its mission is "to help our students excel in the unfolding journey of their lives, and foster respect and concern for the welfare of others. We challenge them to develop their minds, their character and their bodies through community service."

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The school has separate campuses for its preschool students and those in higher grades. The preschool campus is located about one and one-half miles down road from the main campus. Two playgrounds, one hall and one portable hall comprise its facilities. The main campus has 24-acres of land which has constructed upon it seven halls, a portable library, two playgrounds and an auditorium. Its athletics facilities consist of one swimming pool, outdoor basketball court, and a soccer field. Special classrooms were built for art and music instruction. The mascot for the school's athletics program is the Bulldog.

Madame Henriette D. Neal, founded a preschool in 1961 at St John's Lutheran Church in Kailua. It was known as Le Jardin d'Enfantes (The Garden of Children). Madame Neal taught her students the French Language. French is still taught at the school today and the fleur-de-lis appears in Le Jardin's logo. During the next eight years, a new grade was added nearly every year. By 1968, the school's enrollment contained of more than 100 students, all in sixth grade or lower. Le Jardin purchased the land that was once the site of the former Kailua drive-in and constructed upon it the new permanent campus. On August 30, 1999 the school opened its new campus. Under the foundations of one of the halls, stones with personal messages from students were placed. In 2002, Le Jardin added a high school in the same manner it had expanded in the sixties, by adding a new grade each year. The school's current (February 2007) headmaster is an English educator Adrian Allan.