MHA Goals

Our Spiritual and Moral Goals

Mars Hill Academy believes that every area of one’s life should be lived with the intention of bringing glory to our Creator and Redeemer (1Corinthians 10:31).

In the Grammar School, we clearly lay out age-appropriate expectations for students’ attitudes and behavior, consistently teach and model these expectations for our students, and then hold them accountable for their behavior and attitudes, offering the LORD’s blessings and curses in imitation of his Fatherly discipline of us. We place great value in honoring one’s mother and father and in the ideal of Christ’s sacrificial love, which all Christians are called to imitate.
We aim to see our Rhetoric School students become disciples of Jesus Christ and live in faithful obedience – in heart, soul, and mind – to His revealed will, the Bible. We expect a great deal of maturity – intellectual, social, and spiritual – from our students because we know that this is consonant with the life of faith and the experience of the countless Christian generations who have gone before.

Academic and Intellectual Goals

Grammar School (K-6th)

Classical and Christian education equips students for the future using proven methods of the past. As a result, the classical methodology used at Mars Hill prepares Grammar School students for the higher-order thinking that will characterize their education in the future. In the process, students develop a thirst and hunger for new learning opportunities, both inside and outside the classroom. These opportunities are supported and encouraged by developing strong reading and math skills and an increasingly broad program of study that leads to a profoundly large amount of memorization and observation. We hope that our students grow in their capacity for independent learning, understanding that the goal of an education is to teach students to learn on their own.

Rhetoric School (7th-12th)

Building on the strong foundation established by our Grammar School program, the School of Rhetoric develops our students’ abilities in description, analysis and evaluation, so that they speak and write eloquently and persuasively. Our desire is that our students have an aggressive thirst and hunger for new learning opportunities, both inside and outside the classroom. We aim to prepare them to read broadly and from primary documents. They will be lovers of Truth, never content to merely know. Additionally, we hope that our students grow in their capacity for independent learning, understanding that the goal of an education is to teach students learn on their own.

To learn more, read the Mars Hill Academy Mission and Vision Statements, which are part of our Foundational Documents.