 The city also has many private elementary and secondary schools such as Blanchet Catholic School and Salem Academy Christian.One school, Willamette Academy, is part of an outreach program run by Willamette University that is designed to expose under-represented students to the rewards of an academic life at an early age (7th–12th grade).Salem is also home to several public boarding schools, the Chemawa Indian School (a Native American high school), and the Oregon School for the Deaf.