Winners Academy

Call 740.746.8439 or 1.855.MY.GENEVA or email to ask about enrollment.

What We Do

The Winner’s Academy stresses rigorous academics coupled with vocational training designed to meet the needs of promising students that have not achieved their greatest potential in a traditional classroom. Students range in ages from 17-21, and are working to complete their High school diploma while earning a certification in residential construction.

How We’re Different

The Winner’s Academy is a school like none other in the world. A school that doesn’t look like, act like, or feel like other schools on purpose. At the Winner’s Academy a major focus is for students to learn trust, hope, and believe in themselves.

Winners Academy: Building for Success

The Winner’s Academy presents an educational opportunity for students between the ages of 17-21 who have been unable to fulfill their potential in a traditional academic setting to experience academic success as they prepare for the future. These students are intelligent and talented; they have dreams and aspirations; they have tremendous promise. But they lack the encouragement, commitment, self – confidence, and/or economic status needed to remain in school. Some are involved in the judicial system; some come from poor families who have not stressed education; some do not see the relevance of education in their lives. All have lost faith in themselves and their ability to succeed. The Winner’s Academy helps change their perspective of themselves, their futures, and their ultimate place in society by providing them with an education that challenges them, supports them, and prepares them for success.

Students Study Academic and Vocational Skills at the Winner’s Academy. Students receive rigorous academic instruction based on the Ohio curriculum standards in English, mathematics, science, and social studies. They will learn vocational skills in residential construction and receive a vocational certificate based on a nationally recognized curriculum. Winner’s Academy will be adding vocational training in automotive repair and culinary arts as well.

In addition to required curriculum, students will be introduced to foreign language and the fine arts. They will develop skills and receive needed support to resolve social and/or psychological issues. Students will participate in a mentoring program with area businesses and community agencies that reinforces career development and economic empowerment. They will be provided with follow-up and support after graduation. The ultimate hope for students who graduate from the Winner’s Academy is that they will be life-long learners who take ownership of their education and personal development.

These goals can best be accomplished in a climate that has at its core values: commitment to personal integrity and adherence to the highest spiritual and ethical standards; commitment to respect the world and dignity of all human-kind; commitment to foster a cooperative and caring community that encompasses faculty, students, and members of the community to offer relevant curriculum, quality instruction, serviceable facilities, and character building activities for the personal growth of young adults; a commitment to the ongoing assessment and planning process that addresses current and future needs of society so that students are always prepared to be service to the community.

Mission Statement

THE WINNER’S ACADEMY IS COMMITTED TO SERVING THE UNIQUE ACADEMIC, VOCATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS EMERGING INTO ADULTHOOD. CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF FAITH ARE INCORPORATED INTO ALL ASPECTS OF INSTRUCTION, ACADEMIC LIFE, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS SO THAT STUDENTS ARE EQUIPPED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCIES, AND SKILLS NEEDED TO LEAD A LIFE OF SERVICE TO SELF AND OTHERS IN AN EVER CHANGING WORLD.

At the Winner’s academy, students will learn to trust, hope, and believe in themselves so that they will grow in honest, hardworking, committed individuals who are responsible not only for themselves, but for making a positive difference in their communities.

Winner’s Academy will guide each student to:

  1. Mature as a person in relation to self and others.
  2. Discover and develop particular gifts and talents.
  3. Develop abilities of perception and judgment in moral and ethical matters.
  4. Follow the norms for good health and physical fitness.
  5. Develop awareness as a learner able to adapt knowledge, skills, and attitudes to the ordinary tasks of daily life.
  6. Acquire competencies for responsible living as an adult, especially the sensitivity and skills necessary for effective communication.
  7. Train and discipline those skills and attitudes necessary for satisfaction and productivity in the world of work and/or advanced levels of schooling.
  8. Acquire appreciation for the customs, habits, and beliefs of other faith communities, ethnic groups, and cultures.