What is Alpine Latin School?

We are Christian. Where modern schools attack, Alpine Latin School teaches and upholds traditional Christian morality. We reveal and embrace the Biblical ROOTS of Western Civilization.

We are Classical. Our curriculum is inspired by the wisdom of the ages, not a government think-tank. Ours are the same time-tested lessons that teach students how to think, not what to think.

We are Traditional. Students come to master content and build discipline in their academic approach. Subjects are taught by knowledgeable, enthusiastic teachers without the use of laptops or tablets in the classroom.

What is a Classical Education?

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

We teach the Great Books: These books form the literary foundation of the Western World. We read the classics in their original languages. We read and discuss the best of literature throughout the ages supported by the Memoria Press curricular materials.