A cognitive assessment can offer valuable insight into your child's strengths, learning style, and need for greater academic challenge.
Bright children often learn quickly, ask deeper questions, or lose interest when work becomes repetitive. Testing can help you better understand whether your child may benefit from a more challenging and individualized learning environment.
Chronos Academy gives bright, curious, and gifted learners room to question, explore, and go deeper.
Personalized support helps every learner thrive.
Meaningful challenges build deeper critical thinking.
Questions spark discovery, creativity, and engagement.
Challenge at school, balance at home.
Cognitive testing opportunities are scheduled during the school year.
Location: Chronos Academy, 110 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, CA 94939.
Tour the campus or attend an open house to experience the Chronos environment firsthand. Meet our team, explore the learning spaces, and begin to imagine how your child might grow within a community built around curiosity, challenge, and meaningful connection.
Create an account on Ravenna, complete your Student Profile, then select Chronos Academy from the school directory to start the application. Applications received by the priority deadline are reviewed first, and rolling admissions continue after that for any remaining space.
Applicants complete a 90-120 minute cognitive assessment on campus. Families who already have recent WISC-V or WPPSI-IV scores may submit those instead, along with any documentation about their child's learning needs.
Your child spends a day as a Chronos student while you meet with the Head of School. Admitted families then sign the Student Agreement and submit a 10% tuition deposit through Ravenna to reserve their seat.
We love that so much of the instruction is taught through hands-on learning, and we have beautiful Chronos projects on display at home.
My son enjoys Chronos so much that he would even go on the weekends, if he could!
Chronos is a transliteration of the Greek word χρόνος, meaning time. Each week of school is a stop on our diachronic time-travel as we study history, science, math, literature, philosophy and art synchronically from a concurrent time.
A micro-school is a private school that is intentionally small, so students can benefit from individualized classwork, multi-age group projects, and other unique experiences. Because Chronos Academy is limited to 40 students, they can make projects every day, present essays and research weekly, set and achieve their own goals, and thrive.
Most "homework" is completed at school. Students complete math, writing, diagramming, Latin/Greek and analytical reading assignments during classes and Tutorial Period. At home, students eagerly and voluntarily share what they've learned with their parents — that's better than homework.
Yes. Each K-8th grade student receives one hour per week of individual tutoring to use for math, writing, language and/or presentation preparation.
Some are gifted, but all are motivated and curious learners who are willing to work independently as well as in multi-age groups.
Chronos Academy students earn Awards for skills, knowledge and achievements. During weekly Advisory, students assess their progress on goals from the previous week and set new goals for the next. Parents weigh in on this process with weekly feedback surveys and during Parent/Student/Teacher check-in meetings.
Progress reports and transcripts use the following scale:
We use computers as tools, not teachers. Students may not use computers during most classes, but many students use Beast Academy or Khan Academy as their math curriculum. Students may access a limited list of learning sites during Tutorial for research and online academics. In collaboration with parents, we maintain a healthy balance of screen time for each student.
Weekly Advisory includes a check-up on each student's SEL goals and progress. Students are expected to Respect Others And Their Stuff (ROATS), own up to their mistakes, and encourage and support one another every day. We start each day with shout-outs about "ROATSy" deeds and ideas for how to be ROATSy during the day.
When a student is not able to work with the class, they receive a gentle warning first, then a few minutes' break alone second. If a third warning is needed, parents are asked to pick up the student to regroup at home for the next day.
We maintain at most an 8:1 student-faculty ratio. Classes have 8-12 students.
Yes. Each summer we preview the following year's content in Maker Camp. It's a fabulous opportunity to get a taste of the Chronos approach for a week or two.
Chronos students have continued their education at Marin Academy, Marin Catholic, The Branson School, Cate School, San Domenico School, Credo High School, Cardinal Newman High School and Archie Williams High School, and have performed well.
If your child is ready for more challenges and deeper learning, cognitive testing is a meaningful place to begin.
