Field Trips

Field Trips are an integral part of the Renaissance Academy education. At Renaissance Academy Charter School, we believe in expanding each child’s world by enriching his or her life with diverse experiences, knowledge, and skills. Educational experiences outside of school are one important way we do this. In our great location on the edge of Michigan City and LaPorte, only about an hour from Chicago and forty minutes from St. Joseph and South Bend, there are many enriching opportunities available to us.

Attached you can see our field trip plan for the next several years showing a full Renaissance elementary experience. The trip schedule rotates in a three-year cycle, just like our classes, so children continuously enrolled are able to attend every one. One Chicago trip is included each year along with several closer trips. Beginning in 4^th Grade, children enjoy a full camp like experience with 3-day sleepover trips at the Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center. 6^th to 8^th graders also attend a second away trip each year with a rotation of Washington D.C., Project American Life at Camp Tecumseh, and Chicago.

Fees are kept to a minimum and spread out over the year to keep it manageable, with fundraisers used to help with the rest of the expenses. Further donations are greatly appreciated.

Field Trip fees are due the first school day of each month August – June

K – 3^rd Graders pay $5.00 per month

4^th - 5^th graders pay $10.00 per month

6^th - 8^th graders pay $15.00 per month

Field Trip Plan 

* Field Trip fees are pooled and required from every student regardless of attendance, and all students in the class are expected to participate in all class trips. If finances are a serious concern, assistance may be arranged through our TAP program in which family work at fundraisers can be applied to their own expenses.