Bard Academy and Bard College at Simon's Rock is a superb choice for students ready to make a deliberate break with the standard educational track. Our students attend Academy for 9th and 10th grades (earning a high school diploma in just 2 years) and move into the College after completing the 10th or 11th grade, allowing them to complete college by age 20, or earlier. Our Princeton Review academic rating of 92 is higher than Princeton and Harvard, in large part due to an 8:1 student to faculty