History
Golden View Classical Academy is a public, tuition-free charter school opening in the Fall of 2015 with grades K-10. The school will expand to include grade 12 by 2017. Golden View Classical Academy is a classical, liberal arts school using the Core Knowledge sequence in grades K-8. The school also supports developing a community of learners with good character and virtue, inculcated by the study of good literature.
Specialties
Golden View Classical Academy is modeled after the most successful classical and liberal arts schools in Colorado. Golden View Classical Academy offers a robust and traditional liberal arts and sciences curriculum, to include literature, history, science, math, art, music, and physical education. In the elementary school, students are taught to read using an explicit phonics program with a focus on grammar and spelling, along with cursive handwriting. Saxon and Singapore math are strategically sequenced to take advantage of the strengths of each program. An early exposure to Latin and Greek roots is followed by a formal Latin sequence in grades 6-9 in order to enhance the student's vocabulary, spelling, and command of the English language. In the upper grades, instruction includes a course in rhetoric, the use of primary source documents, Socratic seminar, and the study of classical literature that has withstood the test of time. Golden View Classical Academy also includes a special focus on Western Civilization, US History, and the principles of America's model of government and free-market economic system.