Great Hearts Academies
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Phoenix, Arizona USA |
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| Type | Non-profit Charter School Management Organization |
| Motto | Classical Education, Revolutionary Schools |
| Established | 2004 |
| Website | www |
Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit charter school management organization that operates a network of primary, middle, and high schools in the Phoenix, Arizona Metropolitan area and in San Antonio, Texas.
In Arizona, Great Hearts Academies had 7,469 students enrolled for the 2013-14 school year.
Great Hearts is a K-12 charter school that offers a humanities-based liberal arts education to the public, tuition free. It focuses on a core reading list filled with Great Books called Classics to Keep. The Archway campuses, the elementary schools of the network, teaches phonics, spelling, handwriting, and grammar as a part of their classical curriculum. Additionally, they use the Core Knowledge curriculum (designed by E.D. Hirsch) for teaching in-depth and chronological world history and American history and geography as well as studio art and music. They use Singapore Math as their math curriculum and offer foreign language such as (depending on the school) Spanish, French, or Latin.
At the prep school level (middle and high school), students are required to study literature and composition and later humanities, as well as laboratory sciences and competitive athletics. Great Hearts only offers one track of studies, requiring students interested in pursuing hard science careers to have solid training in humanities, and students interested in humanities majors to have solid training in the sciences
Great Hearts Texas is a sister network to Great Hearts Arizona and its twenty two academies. Great Hearts Texas will first open schools in San Antonio and then, if approved by the state for further charters, in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
Great Hearts Texas began the 2014-15 school year with 590 students in grades K-9 enrolled at the Monte Vista campus in San Antonio.
Great Hearts' students score near the highest in the state on standardized tests, with nationally-norm referenced test performance across grades and subjects typically in the 80th to 95th percentile.
Nearly 19% of Great Hearts graduates are recognized by the National Merit Foundation. Over the past five years, 10% of Great Hearts graduates have received National Merit Scholarships.
In June 2016, the Great Hearts corporate Board of Directors adopted a policy that requires their transgender students to align all school activities with their biological sex, rather than the student's gender identity. The student's participation in extra curricular clubs, sports, and the use of facilities (restrooms, et. al.) all must align with the sex of the student as printed on his or her birth certificate. This requirement extends further to Great Hearts' gendered hair cutting standards, school uniform requirements, "girls line/boys line" classroom management, and daily pronoun usage.
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