Academics
A Great Hearts education prepares students to be more than just proficient test takers, but rather, to become great-hearted leaders capable of success throughout their high educations and professional careers. We emphasize that in order for students to become great-hearted leaders they must share in a knowledge that is rooted in the classical liberal arts tradition.
K-12 Curriculum
While students will learn at different paces, we believe that true education is a matter of development over time and within a stable community. At Great Hearts we give our students individualized attention, but always within a common, one-track curriculum. Please explore our reading lists and curriculum sequences.
Explore our Curriculum
Great Hearts Reading Lists
Our reading lists are thoughtfully organized by stage of formation: elementary, middle school, and high school. Each list reflects the Great Hearts commitment to cultivating wisdom and virtue through books that have stood the test of time, awakened wonder, and shaped generations of thoughtful readers.
View our Book Lists
Spalding Phonograms (K-5)
Spalding is used in the early grades as a foundational approach to literacy. Students practice phonograms, spelling, handwriting, reading, and sentence work in a structured, explicit way so they build strong habits from the beginning. This supports the broader classical curriculum because students are preparing to read carefully, write clearly, spell with confidence, and eventually engage with rich literature, history, poetry, philosophy, and primary texts.
Explore the Phonograms
Singapore Math (K-5)
Singapore Math strengthens number sense, builds confidence, and prepares students for the higher levels of mathematical reasoning they will encounter throughout the K–12 classical curriculum.
Discover Singapore Math
Special Education
At Great Hearts Academies, we are committed to providing a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to all students with disabilities who are currently eligible—or are determined to be eligible—for special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
SPED Services
Well-Ordered Language
Great Hearts uses Well-Ordered Language to help students understand grammar as a meaningful and ordered system, not merely a set of rules to memorize. Through careful sentence analysis, students learn how words function together, how ideas are formed clearly, and how language carries meaning with precision.
Well-Ordered Language