About us
Maxfield Academy is a flourishing private school and implements new and diversified approaches to learning to ensure student success. We are accredited by the Ministry of Education to grant credits towards Ontario Secondary School Diploma. We foster creativity alongside physical activity, and academics with global citizenship for a balanced education. We are a dynamic and nimble school that operates classrooms both in our facility and online, a school that successfully adapts to the constantly changing environment that we all must navigate. Located in the heart of downtown Stouffville, one of the most vibrant and active neighbourhoods in York region, we have been partnering with parents ever since to meet the needs of our students. We work to accommodate all learning styles, ensuring rich personalized learning for G9 to G12 students.
Our mission
To inspire lives of character,leadership,and service within a diverse,inclusive,and close-knit community.
Our Values
Knowledge and Goodness
Maxfield today continues the commitment to unite knowledge and goodness. The challenges that students meet at Maxfield and the support they receive have a common objective: to stimulate their development as individuals and prepare them to lead purposeful lives.
Academic Excellence
Academic excellence is a signature strength of Maxfield Academy. In every discipline and at every level within our curriculum we inspire students to develop critical thinking skills and seek complex truths. Intellectual exploration through rigorous inquiry and thoughtful discourse at the Harkness table nurtures inquisitiveness, creativity, insight, empathy, independent thought and mastery in our students.
Youth from Every Quarter
“The Academy shall ever be equally open to youth of requisite qualification from every quarter.” We seek to build an intentionally diverse community of students and adults. We are committed to teaching the skills, modeling the behaviors, providing the resources and cultivating the inclusion and equity that are required to unlock the richness of that diversity. Our Harkness pedagogy is grounded in the belief that we are all better equipped to learn and to lead when our thoughts are tested by others, particularly by those whose ideas, perspectives, experiences or identities differ from our own.
Youth Is the Important Period
The “time of youth is the important period” to instill a lasting capacity to nurture one’s self, develop a sense of one’s own potential and consider one’s place in the larger whole. Our residential community encourages students to explore emerging interests — academic, artistic, athletic and extracurricular — with similarly motivated peers and in the process develop their values and passions and the agency needed to carry these forward.