Welcome to Veritas School

The mission of Veritas School is to provide a classical, Christ-centered education that cultivates wisdom, virtue, and godliness in its students, staff, families and community. This all encompassing statement breaks down what we are all about here at Veritas. The reader will first notice that our classical education is to be Christ centered first and foremost. Believe it or not, there are secular classical schools. Not every classical school is Christian. My priority, as the head of school for Veritas, is that we always keep Christ preeminent in the education and culture of Veritas. This is what drew my family here originally a decade ago, and continues to be a priority today. My prayer is that Veritas is comprised of students, families, and faculty that possess a deep and fervent commitment to Christ.

While keeping Christ the preeminent in the Veritas culture is of top priority, in a very close second is our Classical tradition. I believe that our school is unique and set apart from other forms of education in that we focus on the Trivium, the name given to the first three of the seven liberal arts. Within the Trivium, our courses are not separated as rigidly as in other school settings, but instead our students study how the subjects interrelate and impact one another as they study. We obviously did not invent this style of learning, but instead strive to recover this lost form of learning that was effective for centuries. From the Greco-Roman period through until today, some of the great thinkers and impactful leaders in history were educated this way. 

Instead of a traditional elementary school, we have a grammar school in which the focus is on the development of memory and language skills through the memorization of the basic facts of a subject. The methodology on how this memorization is achieved may take on several forms, from songs and chants, to preparing a performance piece in which students will present to an audience the facts they have learned through a creative medium.

Those facts come together, then in our logic school, or what non-classical schools refer to as middle school. At this level, students learn how the facts and information they learned in grammar school come together and inter-relate. They apply basic logic, a course taught to both 7th and 8th graders, to their content area classes. This logic develops discernment as they study, and are able to accurately identify what is true, good, and beautiful from an imposter or even what is false. 

Finally, our Rhetoric school, or high school, is where the grammar and logic stages come together and our students are able to express and communicate the true, good, and beautiful, as well as argue persuasively for what is of most importance. I encourage anyone who wants to know what the end result of a Veritas education should look like, to take a moment and read our Portrait of a Graduate.