Our Mission
Garden State Classical Academy seeks to cultivate academic and moral integrity in each student through a content-rich classical curriculum, paired with intentional character development, in an environment that promotes lifelong learning through a Biblical worldview.
Our Vision
We inspire young people to know the Truth, do the Good, and love the Beautiful.
Garden State Classical Academy will initially serve Kindergarten through Grade 4, with plans to expand yearly until we reach 12th grade.
Importance of Faith and Community
Garden State Classical Academy is a Christian school that recognizes the central role of religious instruction in a liberal arts education. Every morning at the beginning of the school day, GSCA students come together as a community for the opening ceremony. This ceremony includes the Lord’s Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, a song, and student recitations. We gather again at lunch and offer a prayer before sharing our meal together.
At Garden State Classical Academy, we do not believe authority starts and ends with man, parents, teachers, community leaders, or government officials. Moral objective truths are not arbitrarily based on a power structure or reinforced subjectively. At GSCA, we believe that objective ethical standards for truth and behavioral expectations come from God and are solidified in our Constitution, endowed by our Creator. We believe everyone, child or adult, is held to that same standard. Our faculty and staff come from a wide variety of historic Christian traditions and unite around the Gospel as expressed in the Nicene Creed.
The Academy understands that parents play the principal role in spiritual instruction. Our mission is to partner with parents by providing a faith-supportive environment for their children to grow into their faith. That mission permeates everything we do at GSCA, from the selection of curriculum to classroom instruction to the standards of behavior we expect from students.
GSCA is a non-sectarian Christian school that teaches the objective moral truths outlined in the Judeo-Christian tradition through instruction and example. The curriculum, by purpose and design, is a survey of the best spiritual, intellectual, and cultural traditions of the West as they have been developed and refined over countless generations. While we primarily partner with Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian families in the discipleship of their children, we welcome families from other religions and belief paradigms.
The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Amen.