Gregory the Great Academy

This wonderful school is currently helping us in the work of forming our two oldest sons and will be the future home of our younger ones, God-willing. In terms of true friendship among the faculty and students, a noble vision of education that strives for virtue with joy and mirth, and perseverance in devotion to all things restorative in our culture, Gregory the Great Academy remains in a class apart. Go visit, and you will witness the good life for young men blossoming there!

I spent four years and graduated from this school as a student, and worked there for one year. Of course, no place or person on earth is perfect, but I have GGA to thank for the best friends a man could ask for. I try to stay in contact with the school and they are always trying to make it better, which is very encouraging.nYou're always in my prayers!n-Joe Mac

In times when “no one is doing good, not one” it is important to be surrounded by the good and true. Especially in formative years. In those same times, as boys are being forced into effeminacy it is good to grow isolated from that into virtuous virility. When many are depending on the state and dependant on others for their livelihood it is essential to cultivate a confident self-dependence and personal accountability. As academics turn more into political agendas and behavioral theory it is wise to cultivate the fundamentals of how to think and learn. As God becomes more of an apathetic watchmaker, or even non-existent, it is imperative to cultivate true faith and a real relationship with the one true God via the one true faith, and encounter that God throughout your daily life so as to recognize the falsehood of those that so flippantly reject Him.nnHow can I do this? How can I give this to my sons? Gregory the Great Academy. It did this for me and my many of hundreds of friends. From those that went there to just those that have met us and followed. This school is the most essential thing to have happened to us. We truly and deeply love it. We're not all perfect, but we all strive for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.nnYou will never find another opportunity like this. My brother and I both went there. My two young sons WILL go there.

The professors and school culture are top notch. I'll never forget my first literature class at the parent school. We walked into a classroom as nervous kids recently dropped off far from home. No teacher in the room but shovels, picks, and a treasure map. After waiting a few moments to see if a teacher would walk in like one would expect we took off following the map. It lead us deep into the gorgous wooded property over student made bridges and forts, past creeks, campsites, and towers. We dug once we counted 20 paces off a painted rocked displayed on the map and pulled a chest from the ground full of copies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. As one would expect our class became fast friends from experiences like this.It also drew us into the book like nothing I'd experienced before. Our class could relate as Stevenson described digging up treasure and counting paces. The same would be true in many other classes. Experiences in the chapel, confessional, and around a table arguing philosophy contributed so much to my formation. (Written on a phone please don't hold the school accountable for my grammar and spelling.)

Two of my brothers graduated from this school and another is a sophomore now. The difference in their character brought about through their education was more and more noticeable after each school year. Not only do they experience the comradery among the other students, learn how to seek the truth, and gain a love for the good and beautiful, but they learn how to give that to others.nnI have had the opportunity to visit Gregory the Great Academy several times over the past few years and I am always impressed with the enthusiasm present in the faculty, staff and students. The culture of life and poetic vision that is thriving here is heartening and gives me hope for the future which the young men who attend Gregory the Great will be a part of.