Mission and Purpose

Alpine Latin School serves her community by offering a robust classical education to the modern student within a community of moral excellence. We seek to inculcate wisdom and virtue through the study of the liberal arts and the Great Books in a distinctly Christian environment. Our three-day hybrid program blends traditional homeschooling practices with on-site teacher-led learning.

At ALS we teach the Memoria Press curriculum. Memoria Press offers a complete classical curriculum structured with age appropriate, process based learning. Well-paced, visually appealing, and systematic, the Memoria Press curriculum will bring out the best in your student’s academic abilities.

By partnering with ALS you provide your student access to high-quality instruction in teacher-led classrooms. With all primary subjects addressed on class days, you are free to retain the deep personal involvement in your student’s educational journey and moral development free from the burden of course planning, book ordering, or curricular pacing.

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We take a truly classical approach to learning: At ALS we take a Latin-centered classical approach to, as Aquinas said, “ordering things rightly” in the heart and mind of the student.

We order the mind with Latin: The study of Latin begins as soon as the student reads English fluently and with mastery, typically in 2nd grade, and provides a unifying spine for our language arts curriculum. Vocabulary, spelling, and grammar are all augmented through a mastery of the Latin language. Latin study also orders and disciplines the mind. As the mother tongue of Western Civilization, Latin is central to classical education.

We are focused on the liberal arts: These are the skills needed to equip a thinker to approach any subject. They consist of the trivium and the quadrivium.

The trivium are language skills:

  • Grammar - the structure and science of language

  • Logic - the structure and content of argument

  • Rhetoric - the art of persuasion

The quadrivium are mathematical skills:

  • Arithmetic - the study of discrete number

  • Geometry - the study of continuous number

  • Music - the application of discrete number

  • Astronomy - the application of continuous number