Hope Creek Academy

Education for the rest of us

Hope Creek Academy (formerly Just Right Academy) Inc. is a nonprofit private elementary and secondary school geared to children who need structure, consistency, positive reinforcement, more movement, reduced stress, both remediation and challenge along with a multi-sensory way of learning.

The Academy is located in Durham, North Carolina at 4723 Erwin Road.

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helping those who can’t afford JRA

March 5, 2017 By Linda McDonough

One of the things that grieves all of us that work at JRA is meeting a potential student and knowing that we can change his or her life—but they can’t afford the tuition. We give a significant amount of tuition assistance, but it’s never enough. So many low-income children get a double whammy, unable to […]

It’s 101 Club time again!

July 16, 2015 By Linda McDonough

JRA began in order to help those children whose needs weren’t met in other schools. Our first rent and teachers’ salaries (all three of us!) were paid by the 101 Club. We asked, via Facebook and friends, for 101 people to give $101 each. They did and we have reissued the call each year; while […]

Re-Ed principle one: Life is to be lived now

July 6, 2015 By Linda McDonough

At JRA, our staff talks about philosophy. We talk about it a lot. A school without a philosophy is an institution untethered; without a strong philosophy, staff are left to make it up as they go, and bad decisions lead down that path. By having a guiding philosophy, we strive to have a culture that […]

Camp Accolade: summer camp for highly reactive kids

April 17, 2015 By Linda McDonough

“In growing up, a child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow.” Just Right Academy filters nearly all decisions through this simple, one-sentence credo, originally imparted by Nicholas Hobbs in laying out his Principles of Re-Education—a concept deeply rooted in the tenets of JRA’s beginnings. To me, […]

Murphey School Radio Show!

February 15, 2015 By Linda McDonough

MURPHEY SCHOOL RADIO SHOW RETURNS FEBRUARY 21, 2015 Popular North Carolina novelist Kim Church, Grammy-nominated Alice Gerrard, poet Michael Chitwood, singer/songwriter Ruth Wakefield and soprano Andrea Edith Moore will join an all-North Carolina troupe for an old-time variety show to benefit local nonprofit agencies on Saturday, February 21, 2015—and we are one of them! In […]

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Recent Blog Posts

  • Parent Information Sessions Cancelled March 19, 2020
  • Parent Information Session February 19, 2020
  • We have a new name! July 4, 2017
  • It’s almost camp time! April 27, 2017
  • Behavior is Communication April 19, 2017

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NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS.
Hope Creek Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, or sexual orientation to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, or sexual orientation in administration of its educational and admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.

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