Glendale Archway K through 5th grade Open House -January 31, 2012 in the sanctuary from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. We are hosting an informational meeting to present information on the possibility of opening a Glendale Archway lower-elementary school in the year 2013.  Spread the word to your neighbors and co-workers.  Attendees at the event will receive opportunities for early enrollment if the school opens.  Sign up at this link to receive updates and information:  Archway Glendale Interest Sign-Up 

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Glendale Preparatory Academy is a state-chartered public school offering a liberal arts education rooted in the western literary and philosophic tradition, and committed to the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. Our academy embraces wisdom and virtue as the proper ends of education, and our school culture is ordered to help foster great-hearted young men and women. Glendale Prep’s rigorous seven year curriculum culminates in a four year sequence of Humane Letters seminars in which our students read, contemplate, and discuss the Great Books from Plato’s Republic to Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. Please take a few moments to read the following overview of our school mission.

The founding of a new school within the liberal arts tradition

All of us – students, parents, faculty, and administration – are engaged in a noble endeavor this year: the continued building of a new school that takes its place within the venerable tradition of liberal arts education. At Glendale Prep, we are indeed doing something new, continuing the formation of a new school with 10 new faculty members and 100 new students this year. Yet we are also inheritors of something old, a cultural tradition whose literary roots date back to the epics of Homer in the eighth century B.C. Though we are aware that some believe a liberal arts curriculum to be irrelevant or out-of-date, we study together at Glendale Prep with the conviction that precisely the opposite is the case: our curriculum is most relevant because it addresses students in all the depth and breadth of their humanity. We ask the perennial questions that remain at the heart of human life: “What constitutes a just society? How do I lead a good life? What is man’s place in the world?” Rather than being irrelevant, a liberal arts education is acutely, dramatically relevant to the formation of the character of our students through their growth in wisdom and virtue. With them, the faculty will study that which is most enduring in human culture, and will do so with the conviction that reading, writing, and discourse within the context of community can lead us all toward those aspects of being that the tradition refers to as the Transcendentals, namely the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

A rigorous curriculum in a community of friends

The curriculum of Glendale Prep is challenging and all courses are taught at an honors level. Students begin the study of Latin in 6^th grade, take two years of calculus, read and discuss authors such as Aristotle and Dante, and write a senior thesis. This course of study is not for everyone, but any student who has the desire to know and the willingness to work hard can find a home at Glendale Prep. Not all students will get “A” grades, but every student will have the opportunity to learn and grow. At our academy, this learning and growth takes place in a community of friends, a community formed through solidarity in the pursuit of academic and athletic excellence, as well as growth in moral character. Faculty, staff, and parents work daily to assist our students in realizing the fullness of their human, cultural, and personal identity. As beneficiaries of this formation, our graduates will have the character to serve the larger community through the preservation and development of our local and national culture.

David M. Williams

Headmaster of Glendale Preparatory Academy

Pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.02, all notices of the governing board meetings will be posted at the school site and are available here.