Mandeville Academy

About Mandeville Academy

Mandeville Academy is a residential study year for (profoundly) gifted students. Mandeville Academy defines the term highly talented as follow: people who are more intelligent than 98% of the population. Because highly talented people only number 2% of the general population, their small number makes it difficult to share their special talents, since there's only a limited amount of peers.

Over three-quarter of highly talented people do not graduate from university. This is because the curriculum of our higher education system insufficiently meets the specific needs and requirements of the highly talented students. They often learn in a different way from other higher-educated students. They have a quicker grasp of the material after which they enjoy making variations on it and connecting it to other problems. This often doesn’t match with the needs of the average student, who benefits from the repetition of the subject matter.

There is no form of higher education recognizing the needs of highly talented students. For this reason, these students regularly underachieve and play truancy and even leave school unqualified. The CVs of many highly talented people catch the eye in that they haven’t finished any school. This means they start their careers unqualified and are unable to gain entrance to the jobs where they would be most effective. This leaves a lot of intellectual potential unused. This should be unacceptable for our society as the Netherlands is a knowledge-intensive society.

Address

• Headquarters

  Westhaven 122801PH GoudaZuid-Holland, Netherlands

Team by function

Based on 15 public job profiles as of 4 September 2026.

• Other / Unclassifiable9
• Education / Training5
• Operations1