Great Hearts Academies
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Great Hearts logo Classical Education, Revolutionary Schools | |
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Phoenix, Arizona USA | |
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| Type | Non-profit Charter School Management Organization |
| Established | 2004 |
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Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit charter school management organization that operates a network of academically rigorous, classical, liberal arts primary, middle, and high schools in the Phoenix, Arizona Metropolitan area and in San Antonio, Texas. This network will prepare its graduates for success in the most highly selective colleges and universities in the nation and will prepare them to become leaders in creating a more philosophical, humane, and just society. Great Hearts’ public academies surpass the best public and private school options in academic outcomes, student moral formation, and comprehensive extra-curricular participation.
The ultimate goal of the organization is to graduate “great-hearted” young men and women who possess a sense of destiny and purpose that is directed to the service of the greater good. By engaging in an intense and formative dialogue with the Great Books and Ideas of Western Culture and by conversing with peers and teachers who also seek the truth, students come to understand more fully what it means to be a human being. Together, the Great Hearts Academies are setting a new standard and purpose for public K-12 education. The Great Hearts Network believes in each student’s innate potential to comprehend the rich tradition of Western Civilization to which they are heirs and to grow in the virtues that mark a profound, philosophical life — summarized by the triad of our Latin motto: verum, pulchrum, bonum — truth, beauty, and goodness.
These schools have a history of exceeding private and public schools with outstanding academic outcomes, comprehensive arts and athletics programs, and the moral formation of its teachers and students.
In Arizona, Great Hearts Academies has 7,469 students enrolled for the 2013-14 school year. There will be over 9,500 students in the Arizona network for the 2014-15 school year.
National expansion
Great Hearts Texas is a sister network to Great Hearts Arizona and its twenty two academies. Great Hearts Texas will first open schools in San Antonio and then, if approved by the state for further charters, in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
Great Hearts Texas will begin the 2014-15 school year with 590 students in grades K-9 enrolled at the Monte Vista campus in San Antonio.
Academies
- Veritas Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Veritas
- Chandler Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Chandler
- Lincoln Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Lincoln
- Glendale Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Glendale
- Arete Preparatory Academy (Formerly Mesa Preparatory Academy)
- Archway Classical Academy | Arete
- Scottsdale Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Scottsdale
- Teleos Preparatory Academy
- Anthem Preparatory Academy
- Trivium Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Trivium East
- Archway Classical Academy | Trivium West (Formerly Archway Classical Academy Trivium)
- North Phoenix Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | North Phoenix
- Maryvale Preparatory Academy
- Cicero Preparatory Academy
- Archway Classical Academy | Cicero
- Great Hearts Texas | Monte Vista
Results
Great Hearts' students score near the highest in the state on standardized tests, with nationally-norm referenced test performance across grades and subjects typically in the 80th to 95th percentile.
Please click here for an overview of academic results, published on page 48 of the most recent Great Hearts Magazine.
Nearly 19% of Great Hearts graduates are recognized by the National Merit Foundation. Over the past five years, 10% of Great Hearts graduates have received National Merit Scholarships.
Over 90% of Great Hearts graduates attend 4-year colleges after graduation, more than 55% of them on full or partial scholarships, and about 70% of Great Hearts graduates are admitted to “more” or “most” selective colleges and universities.