The Geneva School

The Geneva School is a private, classical, coeducational Christian day school, founded in 1993. The Geneva School has two campuses in Winter Park and Casselberry. The 5-acre lower school (K4–6th grade) campus is situated in Winter Park, Florida. The new 40-acre upper school (7th–12th grade) campus, located in Casselberry, Florida, opened in August 2019 for fall classes[1]. Geneva is accredited by the Florida Council of Independent Schools and the Florida Kindergarten Council and is a member of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools. Though most of the families at The Geneva School are Christian, the school does not require that its students or their parents provide any statement of faith or attendance at a local church. All staff are required to sign a statement of faith in keeping with Reformed Christian theology.[2] The total enrollment for 2019-2020 is about 540 students, K4–12.

The Geneva School
Location
Winter Park
,
Florida

United States 28.558043°N 81.371959°W / 28.558043; -81.371959
Information
TypePrivate
MottoPost Tenebras Lux, Light After Darkness
Established1993
HeadmasterRev. Robert Ingram
Enrollment540
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Blue and Silver
SongNon nobis
MascotThe Knights
Tuition$7,540-$16,305 (K4-12)
Websitewww.genevaschool.org

Academics

Geneva employs the trivium model of education in an attempt to return to the classical methods of education used by the ancients and medievals, but largely abandoned in the modern world. This distinctive classical approach to education is the basis for the school's entire academic program. Under this model, students are ideally given training in facts (grammar), logical thinking ability (dialectic), and communication skills (rhetoric) that will allow excellence in any higher discipline or vocation. While the trivium is nothing new, the idea of focusing upon each of these three liberal arts roughly during the grammar, middle-school, and high school periods, respectively, applied by many classical preparatory schools today, can be traced to Dorothy Sayers' influential essay, The Lost Tools of Learning.[3][4] A Geneva education is designed to recover the disciplines and provide the benefits of this proven historical approach in the context of modern, Reformed Christianity.[5]

Athletics

The Geneva School athletic teams are known as the Knights. Dan Harger has served as athletic director since 1999. The Knights are full members of FHSAA and compete at the 2A level in most sports. The Geneva School teams have won district championships in nearly all sports. Numerous individual district and regional championships have been achieved as well as many appearances at state level competition. In 2011, a Geneva girls' cross country runner was the state runner-up. In 2013, the boys' tennis line one doubles team finished as state runners-up. Varsity girls volleyball team became the state champions in 2018[6], after being state runners-up the previous two years.

Inspiration

Since the founding of The Geneva School in 1993, the faculty, staff, administration, and board members have relentlessly pursued this one mission: inspiring students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.

"Movement In G"

The Geneva School has recently completed a capital campaign called "Movement in G" for a new 7th-12th grade building, which will join the state-of-the-art athletic fields[7] that were completed in 2016. The 40 acre parcel on Seminola Boulevard in Legacy Park, Casselberry, Florida, opens for 7th-12th grade classes in August 2019 and will house academic, sports, recreational, and performing arts spaces. Upon the completion of this master plan, The Geneva School would boast the largest private school campus in the Orlando Metropolitan Area.[8]


References
  1. Fogarty, Lyndsay (2018-12-14). "The Geneva School Announces $14 Million Campus Expansion". Central Florida Lifestyle. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  2. http://www.genevaschool.org/about-us/christian-distinctives/statement-of-faith
  3. Sayers, GBT, ISBN 978-1-60051-025-0.
  4. http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html
  5. http://genevaschool.org/distinctives_classical.html
  6. "FHSAA.org | 2018 2A FHSAA Girls Volleyball Championship". www.fhsaa.org. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  7. www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2016/02/winter-park-private-school-plans-new-28m-campus.html. Retrieved 2019-05-01. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. http://genevaschool.org/giving_legacy.html
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