About Caldwell Academy

Caldwell Academy is a kindergarten through twelfth grade classical, Christian school located in the beautiful city of Greensboro, North Carolina. Caldwell believes that God has given the primary responsibility of education to parents and seeks to assist parents in this endeavor by providing a Christ-centered, classical education. We hope that you will find our website to be informative and helpful as you prayerfully consider educational options for your children. More importantly, however, we hope that you will begin to see and understand our passion to equip our students to be Christian thinkers in a fallen world.

Based on the centuries old model of education called the Trivium, Caldwell’s goal is to teach students the proper use of the tools of learning. By mastering the tools of learning, Caldwell students will be equipped for life as thinkers and learners. The Trivium divides the school career into three stages according to the way children naturally develop. The three stages are grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric.

GRAMMAR (KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE)
Students begin by learning the fundamental facts and rules of each subject. Teaching methods such as singing, memorizing, chanting, and recitation are emphasized. Latin instruction begins in third grade.

DIALECTIC (SIXTH THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE)
Students are taught how to analyze, reason, question, evaluate, and critique. Logic, the art of arguing correctly, is taught as a core subject. In addition, students learn to think about all of life within the framework of a Biblical worldview.

RHETORIC (NINTH THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE)
In the study of rhetoric, students learn how to express what they know and what they are learning. Debate, apologetics, speech, essay writing, and drama are emphasized during this stage as a means to equip students as effective communicators. Students are challenged and trained to implement a Biblical worldview by engaging the culture for Christ. The rhetoric stage is built on a foundation of accumulated knowledge and is the capstone of the Trivium.