Tall Oaks Classical School

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Tall Oaks Classical School is a K-12 classical Christian school located in Bear, Delaware. Enrollment is approximately 220 students, with approximately 30 faculty.

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History

The school was founded as Christ Classical Christian School in 1994 by a group of homeschooling parents from Elkton, Maryland, taking inspiration from Douglas Wilson's book, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning. In its first year, 23 students were enrolled. It relocated to Newark in 1995, to Hockessin in 1997, adopting its current name. In 2001, Donald Post became the school's second headmaster, and in 2006 moved to the Faith City Family Church building in Christiana. In 2010, the school moved to First Baptist Church in New Castle, Delaware, formerly occupied by New Castle Christian Academy. The current headmaster, Timothy Dernlan, took over in 2014, after serving one year as the upper school principal.

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Campus

As of the 2016-17 academic year, the school moved to its permanent location on the Red Lion campus, which they share with Red Lion Christian Academy and Journey Christian Academy in a partnership with Reach Christian Schools. While Tall Oaks remains a separate legal entity, athletics and other after-school activities have merged with Red Lion's programs. The 37-acre complex includes separate instructional facilities for the three different schools, plus shared athletic facilities, cafeteria, library, and administrative offices.

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Curriculum

In accordance with the classical tradition, the school divides education into three stages of learning: grammar (grades K-5), logic (grades 6-8), and rhetoric (grades 9-12). Tall Oaks students also have the opportunity to earn several college credits before graduation through a dual enrollment program with Cairn University.

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Extracurricular activities

Red Lion athletics has varsity programs for football, cross country, field hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and golf. They compete in the Diamond State Athletic Conference under the DIAA. Through the 2015-16 academic year, the school's athletic teams competed as the Tall Oaks Titans in the Mid-Atlantic Independent League (MIL). In 2015, the volleyball team and both cross-country teams earned 2nd place in the conference, with Titan runners sweeping all four champion spots (varsity and middle school, boys and girls).

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Awards and recognition

Tall Oaks is a charter member and accredited school of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS), one of only 41 to earn that distinction. Students in grades three through eight participate in the National Mythology Exam sponsored by Excellence Through Classics, and in 2016, the sixth grade had 16 medalists, including seven gold, six silver, and three bronze. Students Kelly Weber, Phoebe Hu, and Sarah Chaffee represented Tall Oaks by earning first prize in the ACCS Chrysostom Oratory Competition in successive years from 2011-13, and in 2017, Kana Turley became the fourth Tall Oaks student to earn first prize in the competition.

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See also

• Association of Classical and Christian Schools
• Classical Christian Education

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References

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External links

• Official website (Tall Oaks Classical School)

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