Enrollment Details

  • All students are required to take a placement exam as part of the application and enrollment process. The placement exam is used as a diagnostic tool to ensure students are placed in the appropriate section of math or Latin, and to help identify areas of academic strengths and opportunities for growth.

    After we receive your student’s application, we will contact you regarding the placement exam. There is no need to study or prepare for this exam.

  • The tradition of school uniforms goes back to Medieval times when caps and gowns were required at universities. Thus, all students regardless of background would dress alike, and all would show an outward sign of their dedication to the task of learning together within the university community. In other words, from the very beginning, uniforms have been in support of three goals: modesty, professionalism, and community, or school spirit. Our uniform policy aims at the same three goals. Please refer to the student and family handbook for uniform vendors. You can also contact our admissions team with questions or for group order information.

  • Students receive summer reading from their literature teacher to be completed before the following school year, where their reading will serve as the foundation of the first unit. See the Current Families tab for more information.

  • The school supply list is released in July together with details on summer reading assignments.

  • For this school, ‘classical’ or ‘liberal-arts’ education means a particular goal, methodology, and curriculum. The curriculum is historical: Greek and Roman philosophers, the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, early Church Fathers, great texts of the medieval and modern periods, down to contemporary thinkers and issues. The method is fundamentally oral: close reading paired with Socratic questioning and seminars, though also traditional lectures and persuasive speaking and writing. The goal is a breadth of integrated knowledge, a habit of disciplined curiosity about the world around us and above us, and a pattern of cheerful and virtuous living. In short, a fully human person.

Daily Life

  • 7:40AM Arrival

    8:00AM Mass or Sung Lauds (Monday)

    8:40AM Period 1

    9:27AM Period 2

    10:14AM Period 3

    11:01AM Period 4

    11:46AM Angelus + Lunch

    12:20PM Period 5

    1:05PM Period 6

    1:50PM Period 7

    2:35PM Period 8

    3:20PM Closing Prayer + Clean-up

    3:30PM Dismissal

  • Student bring their own lunch on regular days. Refrigerators, microwaves, toasters, ovens, and kettles are available. On Feast Days (listed in the calendar) lunch is provided.

  • During a special ceremony on Week 0, new students are initiated into their house and welcomed by their new housemates. Once a house has been chosen for a student, they will remain in that house until they graduate.

  • Chesterton Academy welcomes transfer students each year who come from public, private, homeschool, and online high school environments.

  • Our students come from a wide range of educational backgrounds, including parochial K-8 schools, public schools, homeschool, and online high schools. Our current student body also includes non-Catholics, from Anglican and evangelical backgrounds.

  • Chesterton Academy works to limit assigned homework to an hour and a half to two hours of homework per evening. We seek to be efficient in the learning process such that students have time in the evenings to spend with their family and to commit to extracurricular activities and after-school jobs. We also build the class schedule to include three to four study periods.