Saint Patrick Classical Academy offers an academic program that provides a gradual coordinated and personalized process of learning. The faculty’s daily commitment is toward enabling the individual student to become a well-educated and integrated Christian in an educational environment which fosters faith, knowledge, and service.

 

Saint Patrick Classical Academy carefully follows the curriculum guidelines laid down for elementary schools through the Archdiocese of Detroit(www.aod.org) and National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools.  Additional information can be found at the www.catholicschoolstandards.org.

Along side these curriculum guidelines, Saint Patrick Classical Academy incorporates the modality of the Institute of Catholic Liberal Education, of which we are a member school. Our curriculum aims at directing students toward that which is True, Beautiful and Good. The intention is to teach students “how to think” so that they will think truly, and act rightly – This was the goal of the ancient Romans, and the Greeks. It was the educational model of the Christians of the Middle Ages, and of the founding fathers of the United States of America. 

 

Religion curriculum uses the guidelines found in the Archdiocese of Detroit Religion Standards for each grade level @2017.

 

Saint Patrick is fully accredited with MANS (Michigan Association of Non-Public Schools) and teachers have and/or work toward certification through the State of Michigan.

 

Saint Patrick Classical Academy curriculum includes: Religion, Grammar, Math, Latin, History, Geography, Science, Literature (Reading), Spelling, Writing, Vocabulary, and Cursive. 

To this curriculum Saint Patrick Classical Academy is provided Art, music, physical education and technology provided by Airport Community Schools.

 

Teachers are committed to using best practices in education and employ a variety of techniques in classroom instruction. Subject areas are often combined into an integrated unit of study.