Founded in 1991 by Mary Beth Klee, Crossroads Academy is an Upper Valley K-8 school that has distinguished itself for educational excellence with its emphasis on content and character.

Crossroads started small in 1991-92 in the basement of St. Denis Church in Hanover, New Hampshire, by offering a kindergarten extension program. The following year Crossroads opened as a kindergarten through third grade day school. Working closely with the Core Knowledge Foundation, faculty and staff defined specific and sequenced content goals for each subject, while teaching and recruiting new students. Character education at Crossroads began with the Core Virtues program. This program, designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an exemplary program for character education, was created on our campus by Mary Beth Klee and is currently being used in over 200 schools across the country.

With its enrollment for the 1993-1994 school year tripling and with the help of generous donors, Crossroads moved into a sun-splashed new building on Dartmouth College Highway in Lyme, New Hampshire. From that point on the School added a grade per year, graduating its first eighth grade class in June 2000.

Presently Crossroads is engaged in a three-phase campus expansion. The first phase concluded with the purchase of 135 acres of land. Completed in the spring of 2006, the second phase includes the Campus Center, which houses a gymnasium/auditorium, art and music rooms, and a spacious library. The School plans to add new Lower and Middle School buildings in the third phase.