Indian Creek School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory day school for students age 3 through grade 12, located on a 114-acre campus in Crownsville, Maryland. Students are known as individuals and experience an outstanding education as members of a diverse and inclusive community.
Welcome to Indian Creek School! We look forward to engaging with your family and we can't wait to share our community with you. Our team is here to guide you through every step of the admission process.
At Indian Creek School, creativity and confidence are nurtured through an extensive fine and performing arts program that is integrated into the fabric of student life.
In addition to providing physical fitness and the experience of being part of a team, Indian Creek athletic opportunities develop and reinforce character-based qualities such as sportsmanship, integrity, commitment, and motivation.
Every aspect of the student experience at Indian Creek School is intentionally created to provide a rich environment for students to develop creative, social, and personal skills while exploring their interests.
The tradition of generous support from the Indian Creek School community greatly enhances the program and resources available to students. Contributions to the ICS Annual Fund provide critical budget support and a strong measure of the engagement and support of the School community.
Indian Creek School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory day school for students age 3 through grade 12, located on a 114-acre campus in Crownsville, Maryland. Students are known as individuals and experience an outstanding education as members of a diverse and inclusive community.
Welcome to Indian Creek School! We look forward to engaging with your family and we can't wait to share our community with you. Our team is here to guide you through every step of the admission process.
At Indian Creek School, creativity and confidence are nurtured through an extensive fine and performing arts program that is integrated into the fabric of student life.
In addition to providing physical fitness and the experience of being part of a team, Indian Creek athletic opportunities develop and reinforce character-based qualities such as sportsmanship, integrity, commitment, and motivation.
Every aspect of the student experience at Indian Creek School is intentionally created to provide a rich environment for students to develop creative, social, and personal skills while exploring their interests.
The tradition of generous support from the Indian Creek School community greatly enhances the program and resources available to students. Contributions to the ICS Annual Fund provide critical budget support and a strong measure of the engagement and support of the School community.
Indian Creek Lower School is the proud recipient of a $3,940 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Kickstarter Grant to support programming resources for young students.
Over the past two weeks, Upper School students have “mixed it Up” at lunchtime, in an effort to cultivate the community of kindness that is a hallmark of Indian Creek School.
Indian Creek School congratulates Board Member and alumna parent Rick Powell, who received The Kay Laughtman Mentoring Award last week from the Direct Marketing Association of Washington.
Pre-Kindergarten teachers Kelly Bryant and Emma Moran, and Lower School Director of Early Childhood Barbara Oglesbee presented on “Immersive, Interdisciplinary, and Blended Learning in Early Childhood: How these Components Work in Harmony,” at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Conference in Atlanta, GA.
Congratulations to Indian Creek seniors Maura Griesser (Defense), Taylor McCuiston (Defense), Katarina Piera (Midfield), and Azhané Rowe (Midfield) who were nominated to play in the Girls Soccer All Star Exhibition Game.
Joy, warmth, and community filled the morning of Wednesday, December 6, as Kindergarten learned about seasonal holiday celebrations the world over at the "Seasons of Light" performance at Smithsonian's Discovery Theater.
Upper School students, faculty, and staff shared in the annual tradition of St. Nicolas Day on Wednesday thanks to some holiday "Elves" in the French Honor Society.
From December 4 – 8, Indian Creek Lower School participated in Computer Science Education Week, an opportunity to give all our students in Pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade additional exposure to coding and robotics!
Senior Cayla Turner won the Indian Creek School Poetry Out Loud competition with her poignant renditions of “Life in a Love,” by Robert Browning and “Song of the Feet,” by Nikki Giovvanni.
The ICS Sailing team saved the best for last this fall as they took home a season-high finish of Second place in the MDISA J-Varsity Championships against the top 18 schools in Maryland.
Indian Creek Mathletes displayed exceptional feats of mathleticism over Thanksgiving break, moving to second place standing out of 17 teams in the Anne Arundel Community College County High School Mathematics Competition, organized by Associate Professor Art Cimiluca.
On Wednesday, November 8, the Indian Creek School Class of 2019 took part in the Schools in the Court program at the Anne Arundel County District Court in Annapolis to learn about the legal and financial consequences of being charged with criminal offenses.
To deepen their understanding of this exciting time in history, Mrs. Montgomery’s AP U.S. History students conducted their own in-class version of the reality TV show “Shark Tank,” using the most significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
An Indian Creek “lifer,” Kat Lyons ’12 still wears her class ring when out in the field working for the U.S. Forest Service because it reminds her of her roots in the ICS community and how it helped her become an engaged and inspired member of society.
Storyteller Debra Mims visited Indian Creek and transformed into character ‘Grandmother Sally Kathryn Mims’ to tell students stories her grandmother once told her.
Indian Creek School is proud to announce that Upper School teacher Patricia Roth’s article, entitled “Propidium monoazide-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PMA-DGGE) assay for the characterization of viable diatoms in marine sediments” has been published in the Diatom Research Journal, Volume 32 Issue 3, on behalf of the International Society for Diatom Research.
Indian Creek Upper School's production of Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" plays this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Reserve your tickets today!
Two Indian Creek School Eagles Lacrosse players have made college commitments. Seniors Michael Troese (defense), and Sam Homick (midfield) will be continuing their lacrosse careers at the collegiate level.
Congratulations to Indian Creek eighth grade student Lawrence Fowler, who took first place in his race at the at the Washington International Horse Show on Thursday, October 26 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
This year’s OESIS Boston Conference, which brought together educators from over 550 independent schools world-wide was yet another opportunity for Indian Creek faculty and administrators to lead the way in advancing educational practices to inspire students around the world.
The sentiments of the Class of 2022 during their Genesee Valley debrief were full of optimism, enthusiasm, and confidence, after the Class spent three days camping and participating in the confidence and initiative course at the Outdoor Learning Center.
On Wednesday, October 11, the seventh grade class had an engaging, first-hand lesson in farming, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, as they traveled to Pikesville, Maryland, to explore Butterbee farms.
Alumna Samantha Couto '13 recently began her first year of graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh studying Applied Developmental Psychology with a concentration in Special Healthcare Needs and Child Life.
On Monday, October 16, Boston-based author Lisa Rosinsky visited Indian Creek School to speak with the seventh through twelfth grade students about her journey from writing poetry and stories as a hobby to becoming a published author, and to introduce her debut novel Inevitable and Only.
AP Literature students travelled to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, October 12, to enjoy a production of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Folger Theater.
Last Friday, Head of Indian Creek School Dr. Rick Branson stood in a conference room in New Orleans, LA, and shared the fairy tale story of Indian Creek’s Blended Learning program (BLinc) with leaders from 12 schools world-wide, who have been selected to participate in a MISBO + IDEO project.
Alumnus Ryan Atkinson '13 checked in with the Indian Creek Alumni Office to talk about the path he has taken to pursue his dream of becoming a physician by studying medicine at St. George’s School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.
The Indian Creek School Class of 2027 immersed themselves in the life of a Chesapeake Bay waterman during their visit to the Annapolis Maritime Museum on Thursday, October 5.
The Boys and Girls Grades 6-8 X-Country Teams had a great meet at AACS on Tuesday, October 3. Congratulations to Aiden Evans '24, who placed 9th out of 128 runners, and to Grace Doerschner '24, who placed 16th out of 96 runners for the girls!
Indian Creek School is proud to announce that sophomore Michael Mercer has been named the October 2017 What's Up? Annapolis magazine Athlete Worth Watching.
A recent article in The Washington Post is the latest in a movement calling for schools to adopt a late start time. Indian Creek Upper School has been a late start school from the start, due to the overwhelming benefits to adolescents and teens.
Indian Creek actors trekked cross-county to Howard County Community College and took in a version of "The Heidi Chronicles" that will stick with them for some time.
When Caitlin Link ’12 came to Indian Creek School (ICS) as an eighth grade student, she had no idea that her academic journey would take her to the University of Oxford ten years later.
Members ICS Class of 2022 kicked off one of the most meaningful Creek traditions this week, by volunteering at The Light House, a homeless prevention shelter in Annapolis.
Third grade S.T.E.M. lab brought the world of microbes to life for Indian Creek third grade students, as they gathered water samples from the Evergreen Campus pond and inspected them under the microscope.
Indian Creek faculty members Sarah Allen '01 and Kelly Bryant presented a webinar on "Blended Learning in Pre-K through Grade Four," for an international network of education professionals on Thursday, September 7.
In October, seventh grade students will travel to Butterbee Farm to connect with their fellow Creeker, Laura Beth Resnick '03, and learn about the farm – there might even be some flower arranging involved!
The Indian Creek School Class of 2024 kicked off their sixth grade year with a great day together conquering the Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center Confidence and Initiative Course.
Indian Creek parents and faculty members gathered together to embark upon “a wondrous journey of hopes, and dreams, and aspirations…together as a community” the evening of Thursday, August 31, at the annual Creek Connections and Cocktails parent social.
Indian Creek freshman Megan Bunker embarked on a 15 day tour this summer, playing against the best teams in the Cheshire region of the north of England with the Crosse Over Team from Anne Arundel County.
Faculty members Kelly Bryant (Pre-K) and Sarah Allen '01 (first grade) presented at the National Science Teachers Association STEM Forum in Orlando, Florida, in July.
Upper School Performing Arts faculty members Jill Woodward and Matt McCormick participated in the Broadway Teachers Workshop in New York City, where they had the opportunity to study songwriting with the composers of Disney's "Frozen," freestyle rap and dance with original "Hamilton" cast members, and many other renowned theater professionals.
The clear, crisp, sound of the historic bell, occassionally drowned out by the excited cheers of students and faculty, filled the air on the morning of Friday, June 9, as the Indian Creek School (ICS) Classes of 2026 and 2025 participated in the traditional Bell Ringing Ceremony.
In 2009, Upper School Art Teacher Hilary Briles took a group of students to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., including then-senior Ellie Dent. Since her start at Indian Creek in Kindergarten, Ellie had visited plenty of museums, but the Hirshhorn was the first contemporary art museum she...
On the gorgeous evening of Thursday, June 1, Indian Creek School (ICS) students and chaperones set sail on the Catherine Marie from the Annapolis City Dock for the ICS Junior/Senior Prom.
The Capital Gazette announced the 2017 Anne Arundel All County Tennis Team this week, which is comprised of the best high school tennis players and coaches in the county, male and female, from both public and private schools. Indian Creek School is proud to announce that six of the 24 outstanding...
Indian Creek School is pleased to announce that three Eagles Athletes have been named to the 2017 Capital Gazette Communications Anne Arundel All-County Boys Lacrosse Second Team. Congratulations to senior Brian Lord (Attack),junior Michael Troese (Defense) and junior Sam Homick (Midfield) on this...
The Annual Senior Dinner is a time to come together to, simply, celebrate the seniors and their families. Almost 250 students, parents, family members, and teachers gathered together the evening of Friday, June 2, to pause amidst the many senior celebrations and reminisce, congratulate, and .say..
Kudos to Indian Creek School (ICS) Librarian Ashley Fetterolf, who presented at the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS) Technology Conference on May 1 and 2, in Columbia, Maryland. This conference for Educational Technology, Information Technology and Library Professionals gives expert educators the opportunity to share innovative practices with their peers at other area independent schools.
In a presentation entitled, ‘Transforming your School through Blended Learning,’ BLinc Directors Jennifer Malachowski and Matthew McCormick and Associate Head for Finance and Operations Linda Dennison shared Indian Creek’s BLinc success story during a presentation to hundreds of school business managers from around the country at the National Business Officers Association conference in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 28.
Indian Creek school is a co-educational, college preparatory independent school, located in Crownsville, Maryland. Students in Pre-K3 through grade 12 receive a vibrant educational experience based on excellent academics steeped in strong student-teacher connections.