The Leelanau School is the experience-based, five-senses learning community where students in grades 9 through 12 live and discover together on Lake Michigan’s wooded shore.  We build on each student’s learning strengths, creatively using hands-on projects and our dramatic natural setting to help students gain a fresh new sense of independence, engagement, and capability. 

     For over 75 years, The Leelanau School has challenged high school students to reach beyond their acknowledged potential in every aspect of their lives.  Leelanau’s focus is to work with students of average to above average intelligence who simply learn differently and wish to pursue a college preparatory academic program using our unique surroundings as an all inclusive, learning laboratory.  Whether it is in the classroom, on the field, in the dorm, on the slopes, or volunteering in the community, everything is a life enriching experience.