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A teacher-led, classical education experience.

OUR MISSION
& VISION

Our mission is to educate the minds and inspire the hearts of young people through a content-rich, classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.

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Lake Country Classical Academy (LCCA) addresses the real need for tuition-free, high quality, teacher-led education,

K-12. There is a desire among many families in Lake Country for a teacher-led, classical education experience. We believe that all students should have access to this option, regardless of their zip code, socioeconomic status, primary language or race. Classical Education upholds a standard of excellence and has proven itself over the course of time.

LCCA, a public (tuition-free) charter school, will initially serve kindergarten through 9th grade students beginning in Sept. 2021. LCCA will expand by one grade each year until fully serving grades K-12 by 2024.

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LCCA will be a licensed user of the Hillsdale K-12 curriculum, providing a classical education that is content-rich across four disciplines: Math, Science, English Language Arts (including phonics, grammar and writing), and History, with significant attention to music, art, and foreign language. Each of these disciplines will be taught with an emphasis on the history and traditions of American citizens as the inheritors of Western civilization.  

We believe LCCA’s high standards and research-based curriculum will provide students with a content-rich education that will challenge them to excel not only in learning, but also in character development. At LCCA, high academic achievement, personal discipline, ethics, and responsibility will be consistently reinforced through the study of subjects in the classical tradition. Students will graduate from LCCA as highly literate and ethical citizens who are well-prepared to advance into any life endeavor.

OUR CURRICULUM

The BCSI will provide the architecture for LCCA’s academic program. The BCSI classical curriculum emphasizes the core disciplines of math, science, history, and language arts, including phonics and writing, with significant attention to music, art, and foreign language. Each of these disciplines is taught with an emphasis on the history and traditions of American citizens as the inheritors of Western civilization.

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In K-8, the basis of this curriculum is the Core Knowledge Sequence, prepared by the Core Knowledge Foundation and used widely across the United States for well-over twenty years. Following BCSI recommendations, LCCA will supplement the Core Knowledge Sequence with an intensive phonics program that uses the Orton-Gillingham research on language and cognition that has been developed by Access Literacy, LLC. LCCA will supplement the Core Knowledge Sequence in mathematics by using the Singapore Math curriculum from grades K-7. LCCA will also include instruction in Latin, beginning on a formal basis in 6th grade, preceded by the teaching of Latin and Greek roots in grades 4 and 5. The Well-Ordered Language curriculum will be the basis for formal grammar instruction in the upper elementary grades. In high school, LCCA will follow the BCSI course sequence. This includes four years of history, literature, math, and science; three years of foreign language; one year of both literature and government; and a semester each of economics and moral philosophy.

CURRICULUM MAPS
An overview of what your children will be learning at LCCA.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Through our partnership with St. John's Northwestern Academies, we're excited to be able to offer a variety of after-school athletic options for our middle and high school students. The following sports will be available to 7th & 8th grade students in the 2021-2022 school year (dependent on number of interested students):

• Boys & Girls soccer (fall)

• Boys & Girls cross country (fall)

• Boys basketball (winter)

• Boys & Girls track & field (spring)

The following Junior Varsity sports will be available to 9th grade students in the 2021-2022 school year:

• Boys & Girls Soccer (fall)

• Boys & Girls Cross Country (fall)

• Boys Football (fall)

• Boys & Girls Volleyball (fall)

• Boys Basketball (winter)

• Boys Swimming (winter)

• Boys Wrestling (winter)

• Boys Hockey (winter)

• Boys & Girls track & field (spring)

• Boys & Girls Trap Shooting (spring)

In addition, depending on volunteer support and student interest, we intend to offer other after-school clubs at our school location including, but not limited to, volleyball (partnership with Revolution Volleyball Academy), drama, martial arts, chess and robotics.

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