Westminster Academy ascribes to a Classical and Christian pedagogy. In its first eight years,
this Memphis based school has acquired its accreditation and grown to over 290 students in kindergarten through grade twelve.  The curriculum is rigorous, college preparatory and has its foundation in the ancient and traditional liberal arts. Westminster Academy considers its entire scope and sequence as equivalent to Honors courses.  For this reason, we do not designate individual classes in this way.  There is a faculty to student ratio of 1:9.

CLASS OF 2004: 13 students

SAT SCORES	ACT SCORES	NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
Avg Verbal: 628 Avg Math: 586 Avg Total: 1214	Avg English: 26 Avg Math: 23 Avg Composite: 26	1 Finalist Scholar 2 Commended Scholars

A Classical Curriculum Explained
The Classical curriculum required of Westminster Academy students offers to colleges and universities high school graduates uniquely qualified to engage in intellectual debate and exploration. The foundation of the Classical curriculum is an immersion in Socratic dialogue through the seven liberal arts. Emphasis is placed on a dialectic approach that consistently leads students to a deeper examination of each subject. Concurrently, students are trained to evidence their progress both in written and in oral presentation. In addition, there is profound weight placed on each student’s understanding of the interconnectedness of all subjects and the imperative to synthesize them.

In particular, the logic (Why Logic?) and rhetoric (Why Rhetoric?) departments at Westminster Academy are grounded in the traditional (ancient and medieval) verbal arts. The emphasis is on Aristotelian theory and Latin practice. The pedagogy is one that models the Ciceronian theory, imitation, and practice. The primary aspects of the curriculum center around the traditional concepts of Dialectic, the Topics, Aristotle's categories and syllogistic proof, the Five Canons of Rhetoric, and Stylistic Tropes and Schemes. The elementary exercises of the progymnasmata are continued, culminating in declamations and theses. Theses are presented and defended orally before the faculty and students once during the sophomore year and twice each during the junior and senior years (see Rhetoric Presentations). Because of these unique offerings, the specifics of the curriculum are delineated below. These are required courses. Also of note is the beginning of Latin study (Why Latin?) in the second grade which is continued as a required course through the ninth grade. Elective Greek and continued Latin Studies are offered from tenth grade on.