Now Accepting Applications for 2024-25
Heart of Ohio Classical is now accepting enrollment applications for the 2024-25 school year.
Our Mission
To train the mind and develop the character of each student according to a rigorous, integrated and content-rich, liberal arts curriculum from the Western, classical tradition in an academic setting that honors and inculcates moral, intellectual and civic virtue.
Our Vision
To form wise and virtuous American citizens who seek the truth, love what is beautiful, and do what is good.
About
Heart of Ohio Classical Academy is a community (charter) school founding project led by dedicated parents and concerned citizens in Central Ohio who believe that modern schooling in America has lost sight of the proper purposes of a formal education: The teaching of intellectual, moral and civic virtue.
As a Hillsdale College Candidate Member School, HOCA enjoys the support of the Barney Charter School Initiative, which assists groups of local citizens with the launch and operation of classical K-12 charter schools in their communities all around the country. That support includes access to the extraordinarily rich and academically rigorous K-12 American classical curriculum that Hillsdale has developed, as well as consultation and training for boards, administrators and teachers at no cost to its member schools.
A curriculum guide overview of the material taught at each grade in Hillsdale member schools is available here.
Heart of Ohio Classical Academy is currently on track to open its doors soon to students in grades K-6, adding a grade each year, up to grade twelve. It will be public, tuition free, open to any student who is eligible to attend any public school in Ohio (space permitting), and will be located in the Columbus metro area.
