Upper School
Gloria Domini Classical Community

Our Upper School serves students in the dialectic and rhetoric stages, focusing deeply on debate, philosophy, integration, and meaningful conversation. Through these disciplines, students cultivate a biblical worldview and develop a love for truth, goodness, and beauty across all areas of study.

We emphasize a robust Christian education by guiding discussions through the five common topics—definition, comparison, relationship, circumstance, and testimony—applied to the texts, questions, and work explored throughout the curriculum. As students progress into the rhetoric stage, they embrace the canons of rhetoric, with particular emphasis on invention, arrangement, and elocution. The program culminates in Latin fluency and a senior thesis that showcases years of classical education. Additionally, both our upper and lower school programs join together first thing in the morning for our large group assembly (Symposium),

We utilize the Master Point curriculum, a 32-week program, with a few modifications.

Class Structure and Scheduling

Students in each grade or class generally take all their classes together to promote integration and a strong classroom dynamic, with a few exceptions: