Why Karis Academy
At Karis Academy, we are dedicated to providing a nurturing and challenging educational environment for our students. Our caring and qualified staff are committed to providing a Christ-centered education that instills a love for learning and a desire to achieve excellence.

Our Mission
At Karis Academy, we strive to provide a classically-minded education that is grounded in Christian values. Our approach to education emphasizes the importance of character development, critical thinking, and a love for learning. We believe that by equipping our students with the tools they need to succeed academically and spiritually, we are preparing them for a lifetime of success.

Karis Academy is a private school that seeks to instill that which is good, true, and beautiful in the lives of the students that God brings to us. Through a strong partnership with the parents, a Christ-centered education, and an environment that allows for student success, Karis offers students an exceptional learning experience.
Our Values
At Karis Academy, we are committed to fostering an environment that values kindness, respect, responsibility, hard work, and fun. We believe that by promoting these values, we are helping our students to emulate the virtues that are demonstrated in Scripture.

The Lost Tools of Learning
In her essay, The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy Sayers explains the different learning stages that each child goes through. As an educational institution, Karis understands that children are not identical and, therefore, education must be approached uniquely. However, there are time-tested practices that focus on students in their unique learning stage. At Karis, we have emulated the learning stages that Dorothy Sayers has defined and strive to reach students with the appropriate academics in each stage. Below is what she said about each stage in her essay, The Lost Tools of Learning.
Learning Stages
Poll-Parrot Stage
(Grammar Stage)
This stage is the one in which learning by heart is easy and, on the whole, pleasurable, whereas reasoning is difficult and, on the whole, little relished. At this age one readily memorizes the shapes and appearances of things; one likes to recite the numberplates of cars; one rejoices in the chanting of rhymes and the rumble and thunder of unintelligible polysyllables; one enjoys the mere accumulation of things.
Pert Stage
(Rhetoric Stage)
The next stage, the Pert stage, follows upon this (and, naturally, overlaps it to some extent) is only too familiar to all who have to do with children: it is characterized by contradicting, answering-back, liking to “catch people out” (especially one’s elders), and the propounding of conundrums (especially the kind with a nasty verbal catch in them). Its nuisance-value is extremely high.
Poetic Stage
(Logic Stage)
The Poetic Age is popularly known as the “difficult” age. It is self-centered; it yearns to express itself; it rather specializes in being misunderstood; it is restless and tries to achieve independence; and, with good luck and good guidance, it should show the beginnings of creativeness, a reaching-out towards a synthesis of what it already knows, and a deliberate eagerness to know and do some one thing in preference to all others.
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