principal's message

Welcome!

Welcome to John Adams Academy El Dorado Hills, where we don’t just prepare scholars for college — we prepare them for life. Our secondary program challenges scholars to think deeply, communicate clearly, and lead with integrity. We believe that the best education is one that shapes both the mind and the character, equipping young people to pursue truth, beauty, and goodness in all they do.

As a faculty and community, we hold our scholars to a high standard because we believe they are capable of meeting it. Growth comes through challenge, and our classrooms are designed to engage scholars in meaningful inquiry, respectful dialogue, and disciplined study. Here, scholars learn that hard work matters, ideas have consequences, and their voice has power.

For me, education has always been about transformation — helping scholars see that they can do more, know more, and become more than they thought possible. I have seen firsthand what this education does: it builds confident, articulate young men and women ready to serve and lead. That’s why I believe John Adams Academy offers the best education available today.

If you are looking for a school that partners with families to cultivate wisdom and virtue in scholars — not just knowledge — I invite you to learn more about our program. You’ll find a community that believes in your scholar’s potential and will challenge them to rise to it.

Sincerely,

Zeta Cammarota, Principal

“[Liberal education] is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.” 

― John Henry Newman