Welcome to
St. Benedict Classical Academy
St. Benedict Classical Academy is a co-ed independent school that offers a classical education in the Catholic tradition for students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 6. At SBCA, we strive to cultivate intellectual and moral virtue in the pursuit of academic excellence, in a joyful and faithful Catholic environment. At SBCA, students enjoy the merits of small class size, with low student-teacher ratios across all grades.
SBCA Mission:
St. Benedict Classical Academy strives to cultivate intellectual and moral virtue in pursuit of academic excellence. We seek to provide each student with a foundation for life, rooted in strong intellect, heart and character, formed in a joyful and faithful Catholic environment.
Exciting News: The Future of SBCA
Rod Dreher on SBCA in The American Conservative
School
CALENDAR
“I recently had an opportunity to spend some time at St. Benedict Classical Academy and to meet the faculty and staff there. While the facility was charming and a delightful place to learn, I was even more impressed with the teachers. SBCA is blessed to have such an excellent group of bright, cheerful, and enthusiastic faculty who are committed to their faith and to the noble work of teaching. My only regret is that my family doesn’t live closer to SBCA–my wife and I would certainly send our children there! “
Dr. Jeffrey Lehman, Assistant Professor of Education, Hillsdale College
St. Benedict Classical Academy Provides an Alternative to the Common Core
“Schools like SBCA provide young students with a breadth and depth of learning unheard of in Common Core schools by putting them in conversation with admired and enduring characters in literature and history—those that have shaped Western Civilization and the Western moral imagination. By steeping students in the works of the great intellectual, moral, and artistic leaders in world history, they have models to emulate: models of fine reasoning and writing but also often of fine character. This is precisely what young children need today.”
Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Arkansas
“A classical curriculum does not propose that a student merely ‘shake hands’ and develop a passing acquaintance with the greatest thinkers, the greatest artists, saints, and prophets, but rather that he becomes so wholly habituated to their thoughts and words, their prayers and psalms, their masterpieces of art and music, that he himself becomes like those great people.”
Dr. Tony Esolen, Crisis Magazine
OUR SCHOOL AT A GLANCE
St. Benedict Classical Academy is proud to offer an authentically Catholic and rigorous classical academic program.
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Number of towns our families come from
11:1
Student: teacher ratio at SBCA
2013
Year SBCA was founded
17
Average class size at SBCA
165
Number of students enrolled this year
10
Number of Enrichment programs currently offered at SBCA
2000
SBCA is part of the 2000 year long tradition of Catholic education
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Number of years SBCA students study Latin
89
Number of families at SBCA