Working Towards a 2026 Opening
Starting K-4 adding a grade each consecutive year up to 12th Grade
A Parent’s Choice
A Child’s Opportunity
Our Mission
Finger Lakes Classical Academy Charter School's (FLCACS) mission is to train the minds and improve the hearts of young people through a classical, content-rich education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue in an orderly and disciplined environment.
FLCACS seeks to ground children in solid, universal, foundational skills through tried and true methods and curriculum for children from diverse socio-economic, language, and skill-level backgrounds allowing all the opportunity to flourish. Students are taught with the Socratic Method, encouraging strong thinking and communication skills, fundamental to a sense of self-worth and future success. FLCACS prepares its students to be entrepreneurs and innovators, leaders in their homes and communities, and statesmen in their government.
Through its demanding curriculum, FLCACS educates students to the highest levels of academic achievement to develop wise and knowledgeable American citizens.
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Example Curriculum Maps
Take a look at an example of our curriculum maps. Ours are still under construction but are similar to these!
The Singapore Math Method
Singapore Math was developed in the nation of Singapore, which consistently ranks at the top in the world in mathematics. Singapore Math teaches the subject in the way that older generations of Americans learned it. It builds a conceptual understanding by moving from the concrete to the pictorial to the abstract. It places particular emphasis on mental math and mathematical reasoning skills. For more information, visit www.singaporemath.com.
The Core Knowledge Foundation
“Knowledge-based schooling puts the emphasis of early education on teaching and learning an enabling core of broadly shared knowledge—enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the wider society. Such knowledge is possessed by successful adults and taken for granted by literate writers and speakers. It’s the broad and diverse knowledge that makes responsible citizenship possible." More information can be found at www.coreknowledge.org.
Literacy Essentials, by Access Literacy
Literacy Essentials is a form of explicit phonics instruction in the Orton-Gillingham family of curricula. This approach lays the foundations for high levels of literacy through explicit, intensive phonics instruction. Students learn all 71 phonograms in the English language and the rules for their use, as well as penmanship and grammar. For more information, please see www.accessliteracy.com.
Special Education is provided
Charter Schools are public schools and abide by all the same laws as a traditional district school. Our Student Services department will provide assistance to those with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), English Language Learners, and students who are significantly behind grade level. Classroom teachers and student services staff collaborate to ensure that students remain in the general classroom as much as possible with minimal alterations to the curriculum.
Visit www.nysed.gov/charter-schools/charter-schools-and-special-education to learn more.
What is a charter school?
Charter schools are TUITION-FREE, open-enrollment public schools that enjoy greater freedom in exchange for greater accountability. Their independence allows for unique innovation, offering parents meaningful choices in the education of their children. Finger Lakes will offer a traditional education in the liberal arts and sciences, with an emphasis on moral character and civic virtue. In New York, each charter school is operated by a governing board under the terms of the school’s charter, as approved by a state authorizer. The authorizer holds authorized schools accountable for high student achievement, strong organizational practices, and sound finances and fiscal management.
What is classical education?
A classical education is an education aimed at human excellence. It is traditional in the ends it pursues, in the materials it uses, and in the methods it employs. Classical schools seek to cultivate virtuous habits of thought and action in order to orient students’ minds and affections to the true, the beautiful, and the good. To this end, classical schools offer a traditional course of study that focuses on the liberal arts and sciences, and a traditional pedagogy that emphasizes active, integrated learning.
Contact
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Email
fingerlakesclassicaledu@gmail.com