An Independent Private School
True North Classical Preparatory is a school in the classical liberal arts tradition.
Our purpose is to create scholars that exemplify the classical ideal – excellence in soul, mind, and body. With that firm purpose at the center of all that we do, True North is a truly remarkable school.
Our focus on excellence of character shapes the hearts and minds of our scholars to want to pursue goodness and virtue. With a curriculum, culture, and purpose built upon the classical liberal arts tradition, True North’s adherence to timeless principles produces remarkable results.
Based on timeless principles that are unchanging and self-evident.
Mission & Vision
True North Classical Preparatory will achieve its vision through a rigorous, content-rich curriculum grounded in the tradition of the classical liberal arts. Through steadfast focus on scholarship, citizenship, and leadership in an environment that values and models intellectual and moral virtue, we are committed to empowering our students to reach their highest potential and sustain a lifelong love of learning.
True North Classical Prep will inspire a thirst for knowledge within our students, aligning passion to purpose in the pursuit of the True, Good, and Beautiful.
Classical Education
Rooted in the history of Western thought and learning, the classical education model is built on the three stages of learning in the liberal arts.
Grammar: The study of basic forms
Logic: The skill of abstracting from particulars
Rhetoric: The ability to speak and write persuasively
In each subject, our dedicated faculty guide our students’ journey through these stages, mastering the subject’s basic facts, developing the ability to reason clearly about them, and finally possessing the capability to argue and support ideas creatively and persuasively. The results is students who understand critical concepts, synthesize their learning from across subjects, and apply that knowledge in purposeful and persuasive ways.
Curriculum
At the heart of True North Classical Preparatory ’s academic achievement is the powerful and simple truth of Core Knowledge: the more you know, the more you are able to learn.
The Core Knowledge sequence is predicated on two realizations:
- Student’s ability to learn a new concept depends on what they already know
- What students know is a function of previous experience and teaching
These insights, well-established by cognitive science, has profound implications for teaching and learning. At True North, we understand that the sequence in which new concepts are taught is just as important as the scope of our curriculum.
Grammar (K-5)
We develop the essential building blocks for higher levels of cognitive work by engaging our student’s natural desires to explore their world. Students take pleasure in memorization while chanting the historical people and events as well as famous poems and prose. Through instruction and memorization, we also ensure our students master the rules of phonics and grammar, understand foundational math facts, and are familiar with the basic elements of the natural sciences.
Logic (6-8)
Students apply the rules of grammar learned in the previous stage to the skills of reasoning, questioning, and arguing in a way that seeks what is true. Students are no longer satisfied with memorized facts, they want to know the why that lies behind the what. Instruction shifts to the Socratic Method of teaching in which students are encouraged to ask questions and follow them to their logical conclusion
Rhetoric (9-12)
Once a student mastered the structure of language through grammar and how to logically apply what they know, they are ready synthesize information and clearly articulate their understanding in a persuasive way. Students become self-motivated and self-correcting learners and are able to express themselves with clarity, depth, and originality. Since the goal of a classical education is the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness, those who excel in this art are able to lead others to these noble ends.
Academy Life
At True North Classical Preparatory, we have a vibrant community that is set up for our students to pursue good and worthy things whether that is in the classroom, sports fields, the fine arts or the numerous clubs and activities we offer. True North scholars have the opportunity to pursue their interests both inside and outside the classroom, during and after the school day.
Public Notices
All teachers at True North Classical Preparatory have one of the following requirements:Bachelor’s Degree or higher in any subject or a current Florida Teaching Certificate.
A privately placed private school student with a disability does not have an individual right to receive some or all of the special education and related services that the student would receive if enrolled in a public school under the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as amended.
