Welcome to Augustine Classical Academy!
Since 2009, we’ve been serving the families of the Capital District, providing a robust classical Christian education steeped in the liberal arts and anchoring children’s hearts to a love for Jesus. With Colossians 2:2-4 as our guide, we aim to create a learning community where students’ “hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” We partner with parents in this work of discipleship, recognizing that parents hold primary responsibility for their children before God, and take joy in sharing our love for learning, an outgrowth of our own love for Christ, with the next generation.
Classical: At Augustine Classical Academy, we utilize a time-tested methodology that trains students to grow in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, aligned with their natural development. We spread a metaphorical feast for our students daily, through quality literature selections, science studies that promote wonder, a chronological history that points to God’s Hand at work in the lives of people, and mathematical constancy that directs us to the order of God’s universe. Our arts programs provide students with skills to create and explore their unique giftings as children of God, while also pointing them to the works of masters, who draw viewers and listeners into the transcendence of Beauty. The work is pleasantly rigorous, drawing students to sustained attention to a worthy task, and purposeful, shaping students to love what is True and Good.
Christian: Faith is intertwined in all of our studies, whether we’re considering the beauty of a mathematical equation or a sonnet by John Donne or an awe-inspiring chemistry demonstration. We believe that the “treasures of wisdom and knowledge” are indeed hidden in Christ, and find the process of seeking Him in all our studies to yield satisfaction in our souls. S.tudents memorize Scripture from their earliest years and graduate having considered the philosophies of the ages and how they’ve all attempted to answer questions of the human condition. As a community of Christ followers, we share core beliefs expressed in our Statement of Faith and Statement on Human Sexuality and appreciate the diversity of the Body of Christ within that shared framework.
Partnership with parents: Augustine was founded by a group of homeschooling families who realized their responsibility in educating their children and desired to partner with like-minded families and faculty in this important work. God has grown our numbers over the years, but our heart is knit with our parents. We seek to nurture relationships between faculty and parents through on-going communication, volunteering, and events such as The Table, book clubs, and regular parent-teacher meetings through 7th grade.
Discipleship of students: Core to our DNA as a school is an acknowledgement that all education is discipleship. Nothing is neutral. As our children grow, they need guidance and direction as they discern virtue from vice, as well as a learning community that shares Christian values. We choose to educate in Christian community to freely pursue faith as we integrate our love for God in our studies.
Along the way, we win championships in rowing and mock trial and gain honors in MathCounts and robotics, as we aim to do all we do for the glory of God, but those medals and trophies don’t represent our goal. We seek to equip this next generation with tools of learning so that they may enter whatever sphere of influence God places them in, well-prepared to bring the light of the Gospel, the hope of Jesus, to all the dark places, as articulate and virtuous followers of Christ. If you are interested in pursuing a classical Christian education for your child or grandchild, or want to support our work in upstate New York, we encourage you to reach out to us at info@augustineca.org.