WHAT IS CLASSICAL EDUCATION?

The Circe Institute (a wonderful resource for classical education) has identified some key principles of classical education. Below are a few of their principles that are particularly foundational to our school: 
  • PURPOSE: The purpose of Classical Education is to cultivate virtue and wisdom. The classical Christian does not ask, “What can I do with this learning?” but “What will this learning do to me?” The ultimate end of Classical Christian education is to enable the student (disciple) to better know, glorify, and enjoy God.
  • GRACE: In a Christian school, learning is not an end in itself.  Instead, the classical Christian teacher asks God to use his teaching, dispositions, and actions as an instrument in His hand to cultivate the students’ souls toward holiness. In this sense, learning can be a means of grace.
  • SUBORDINATION: Schooling is not the purpose of life or of childhood and it has value only to the degree to which it enables the child to fulfill his purpose as a particular human being. It is not fitting for a school to dominate a child’s life or to ask a child to perform exercises that have no value beyond school.

Lexington Latin School
Lower School Information
Jr. K–6th Grade

859-940-7485
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Located on the campus of
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church
483 West Reynolds Road
Lexington, Kentucky  40503

Lexington Latin School
​Upper School Information
​7th–12th Grade

859-429-8654
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Located on the campus of
Anchor Baptist Church
3601 Winthrop Drive
Lexington, Kentucky  40514
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY: Lexington Latin School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It doesn't discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.