Hillsdale Academy

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Hillsdale Academy
Image:Name of image
Virtus et Sapientia (Virtue and Knowledge)
Established	1990
School type	Private K-12 Liberal Arts
Headmaster	Dr. Kenneth Calvert
Location	Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
Enrollment	143 students
Faculty	16 teachers
Student:teacher ratio	1:9
Athletics	Basketball, Soccer, Track
Color(s)	Royal Blue and White
Mascot	Colts
Conference	Mid-South League
Homepage	http://www.hillsdale.edu/academy www.hillsdale.edu/academy]

The Hillsdale Academy is a K-12 liberal arts school operated by Hillsdale College. The Academy's rigorous teaching methods are respected nationwide, as evidenced by the widespread popularity of the Hillsdale Academy Reference Guide. Hillsdale Academy is located in Hillsdale, Michigan.

[edit] History

The Hillsdale Academy was founded in 1990 as a model K-8 school. Originally housed in mobile units with 2 grades (clusters) assigned to each building, the school tried to emulate the one-room schoolhouse education that former Hillsdale College President George Roche III experienced as a child in Colorado. The school was originally located on Barber Drive, across from the Slayton Arboretum and adjacent to the Simpson practice fields.

Thanks to a generous donation given by Hillsdale College trustee Chuck McIntyre, a new double level building was finished in 1998. With the new building an Upper School was added, incorporating grades 9-12. The Upper School students have classrooms on the top floor, while Lower School students have their classrooms on the bottom floor. The school is located south-east of Hillsdale College, near the George Roche Sports Complex. The first headmaster of the K-12 Academy was Scott Hicks. The current headmaster is Dr. Kenneth Calvert.

[edit] Curriculum

The Hillsdale Academy features a traditional, well-balanced core of essential subjects: phonics, reading, penmanship, writing, spelling, grammar and mechanics, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, geology, classical and modern foreign language, arithmetic, mathematics, science, music, art, and physical education. The Academy forms its curriculum in order to give students a basic understanding of fundamental academic skills, to allow students to explore the arts and sciences, and to give an understanding of the foundational tenets of our Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman heritage.