About Us

Excelsior Classical Christian Community

Classical education has been the primary method of passing along knowledge, understanding, and wisdom for millennia.

"Students today no longer know how to think," Dorothy Sayers lamented in her essay, "The Lost Tools of Learning."

Thus, students studying the medieval trivium are equipped with these tools, with rigorous studies of difficult subjects. The study of classical Latin and ancient Greek, as well as the reading of great books from a Biblical perspective is the core of the classical Christian method.

Excelsior Classical Christian Community is a community of like-minded believers educating our children in the classical tradition of our forebears. Begun by several homeschooling families in Tupelo, Mississippi, we opened our doors for tutorials in 2001. We study not only the subjects of the classical "trivium" (grammar, logic & rhetoric), but utilize these methods as well. This mode of education has served our children well: they have received a well-rounded education from a distinctly Christ-centered perspective, and many of our graduates have been named Mississippi Eminent Scholars (ACT of 29 or above).

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Mission Statement

Our Mission

The mission for this group is to exalt the Lord God in both teaching our children and the relationships which exist with the children and among ourselves as parents.

Our goal for our children is to provide opportunities afforded by a classroom setting to advance the goals of a classical Christian education. This includes:

  • giving them a consistent means of interacting with a group of children and teachers otherwise not afforded in a homeschooling setting
  • teaching them the necessity and blessing of respecting authority
  • encouraging and re-enforcing the character traits of attentiveness, cooperation and responsibility
  • providing teaching and activities that would otherwise be impractical, if not impossible, to do at home
  • providing opportunities for monthly field trips through the support group
  • instructing them in specific curriculum to advance a classical Christian education specifically Latin, logic, and speech; as well as other classes instructed in a classical method
Statement of Faith

What We Believe

The statement of faith adopted by Excelsior Classical Christian Community is deliberately limited to the broad arena of Biblical Christian doctrine, which is considered to be central to all orthodox Christian churches, and which sets Christianity apart from all other faiths. Therefore, we subscribe to the great historic creeds and confessions—including the Nicene, the Apostles, and the Athanasian – as they have been elaborated through the ages by the called synods of the church from the Ecumenical Councils to the Westminster Assembly. To carefully establish the parameters of doctrinal teaching in Excelsior classes and to maintain our nondenominational status, we will adhere to the standards of historic orthodoxy in all essentials but to Biblical diversity in all peripherals.