Transforming the Way Students
LearnGrowThrive
This abilities-driven approach enables bright students, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, or academic-based anxiety, to be successful in and out of the classroom. Since 1954, we have helped students realize their full potential with a comprehensive college-preparatory curriculum that is traditional without being rigid, challenging without being intimidating, and designed with the real world in mind. At McLean, we believe in our students.
We believe we’re not just teaching the student in our classroom, but the adult who will one day look back at this school experience as a time when they learned how to learn – and how to move through the world with confidence, curiosity, compassion, and courage. Watch our video to see what else we believe.
480
Students Enrolled at McLean
18
Advanced Placement Classes
7:1
Student-Teacher Ratio
100%
Orton-Gillingham Approach
17
Average Years of Teaching Experience
37%
Students of Color
12
Varsity Athletic Teams
27
Bus Stops Serving the DMV
K– Grade 4
Here begins the work of learning how to learn
GRADES 5-8
A time for self discovery and increased independence
GRADES 9-12
Becoming resourceful, self-reliant, and college ready
POST GRADUATE
Where McLean’s lessons become achievements
Embedded Classroom Support
We don’t define students by their challenges – but we absolutely know how to support them. Our approach and best practices serve our bright, college-bound students with what we believe is a better way of doing school for all students.
Get Ready!
Skills, strategy, sportsmanship and championships.
Our talented and creative students showcase their strengths in the arts on the stage and in the studio.
Success at McLean is rooted in the understanding that the very qualities of mind that render traditional teaching approaches unsuitable for some students — qualities that other schools only seek to mitigate — are actually the flip side of tremendous strengths. They can be sources of creativity and insight if only we begin with “can” rather than “cannot”.
Voices of McLean
Engaging speakers, workshops and conferences to engage the greater community on education and child development topics.
Tips, best practices, and more from our faculty and staff.
It’s critically important for a child to be in a school that respects them for who they are, and supports their academic strengths and challenges. This has always been true for McLean.
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