About Us

Welcome to GA 

Camp History

Germantown Academy Summer Programs started as a Day Camp in 1969 to provide a much needed day camp experience for neighborhood and faculty children.  In addition, the camp provided summer employment opportunities for GA faculty and staff.  Over the next 20 years the school began to add other camps in areas such as sports, science, theater, and art.  At this point, in 1990, the school decided to organize the camps under one name, Germantown Academy Summer Programs. 

Today

We are now entering our 39th year as Summer Programs offering campers an opportunity to learn, play, and grow through our more than 70 camps and courses, the most extensive slate of offerings in Montgomery County. 

Katherine Adame
Summer Programs Director

 Germantown Academy: The School 

At Germantown Academy, our mission is to educate our students to become good citizens and productive leaders in a global society. To achieve this mission, we provide a rigorous and exciting academic experience for students enrolled in Pre–kindergarten through 12th grade, a diverse community of families and teachers who come from a supportive communal experience built upon the philosophic underpinnings of trust, responsibility, and kindness. Our standards are high for intellectual, athletic, and artistic achievement as well as for the quality of interaction we expect to occur between individuals. We help our students discover and refine their talents, then encourage them to use their gifts in the service of others. Our goal is to have our graduates leave the Academy as confident, independent young people ready to face the challenges presented by higher education and the professional world beyond.
 
Another distinguishing quality of Germantown Academy is our constant striving to become an even stronger school. We have just completed a Five Year Strategic Plan that allowed us to endow faculty professional growth programs and a number of financial aid scholarships, build a new Lower School building, strengthen our commitment to racial diversity, and become a leader among independent schools at integrating technology into the curriculum. At GA we understand that schools are either moving ahead or falling behind. We work continually to do the former. Right now another Strategic Plan is being formulated that will lead us confidently into the 21st Century.
 
Germantown Academy is an excellent school with realistic aspirations to become exceptional. I am proud to be serving this community as Head of School, and I am pleased to be the individual who welcomes you into it. I hope that you will enjoy our campus as much as I do on a daily basis.
 
James W. Connor 1760
Head of School