Preparing Cushman Students for High School

For me success is the result of partnering with a school environment like the one at Cushman that helped me raise daughters who are assured, motivated, caring, and concerned. They are leaving a marked and indelible imprint on the planet - there is little as successful as that." - Wilfredo Fernandez (Cushman parent '94 - '08)

Marlene Fernandez - Cushman '02 - First Year Pre Med, University of Central Florida

Christina Fernandez - Cushman '08 - Student, Beach High Scholars Academy

Cushman graduates depart the 8th grade with:

• Comfortable stage presence and outstanding public speaking abilities
• Digital assurance, creativity and knowhow
• General courteous behavior
• Confidence
• Experience with leadership
• Empathy
• Exposure to the intrinsic self worth of helping others
• The aptitude to think creatively, out-of-the-box & solution oriented
• The ability to present ideas & information in a variety of ways
• Enriched by travel experiences outside of school
• The respect to accept others
• Good cooperative skills and the ability to work within a team
• A sense of responsibility towards community development
• An acute awareness of their personal strengths and weaknesses
• Understand that there is more to intelligence than simple fact recall
• Inherent ability to take accountability for their personal, academic and physical growth
• Fine tuned study skills and organizational skills
• A good foundation of academic knowledge and challenge
• Essential  comprehension that industrious behavior is the key to any success

Our graduates have attended the following schools:

Public/Magnet

• DASH
• Doctors Charter School
• Academy of Arts and Minds
• MAST Academy
• New World School of the Arts
• William Turner Tech High School
• Academy of Arts and Minds
•  Miami Beach Senior High -Scholars Program
• M Coral Gable High School IB Program
• Miami Arts Charter School

Private/Parochial:

• Chaminade Madonna Prep
• St. Andrews
• Admiral Farragut Military Academy 
• Gulliver Prep
• Miami Country Day School
• PACE
• Ransom Everglades
• La Salle High School
• Belen Jesuit Prep
• American Heritage
• Archbishop Curley Notre-Dame High School
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Columbus
• St. Brendan’s

Boarding:

• Purnell
• Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
• St. Timothy’s
• Lakefield Boarding School
• St. Andrews
• Admiral Farragut Military Academy