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Each classroom has at least two teachers sharing the teaching load. Experienced teachers mentor and offer support to new parents joining the co-op. Teachers are given a chance to list their top three teaching choices. The types of work involved vary by subject and level.

We have an archive of past lesson plans and ideas for each subject and level, and a group of enthusiastic teachers that come alongside one another. Please do reach out with questions about what each teaching role might look like and know that we value each teacher and seek to support each other well.

- Partaking in a medieval feast
–Nailing Martin Luther’s 95 Theses to a door and discussing their importance
–Studying, designing, building, and launching rockets
–Assembling a jumbo periodic table correctly

-Painting a mural of tidepools
–Acting out scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
–Creating a 3-D model of a salt molecule
–Reenactments of the first Passover and the crossing of the Red Sea
– “Sailing” a Phoenician ship, establishing colonies, and trading goods
–Following Daedalus’s magic yarn through the Labyrinth to fight the Minotaur
–Discussion of the Crusades, wrongful actions within and outside of Christianity
–Creating a journal from the point of view of Marco Polo on his travels

-Holding a sample of the element Gallium
–Examining cells through microscopes
–Sketching the systems of the human body
–Lively discussions about Anna Karenina
–Learning about and practicing Lectio Divina and Examen
–Dissecting frogs (!), dissecting sheep eyeballs (!!), and mummifying chickens (!!!)
–Comparing biographies from a wide variety of voices, times, and places

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Seattle Classical Co-op is a group of classically minded homeschooling families. Through sequential, book-based, multi-sensory learning, we encourage and equip one another to raise our children to know Christ, to pursue knowledge, and to act on what they know.

First and foremost, we are a community of prayer. When we gather on Fridays, our first action of the day is to share the blessings and burdens of the week and to pray together—for one another, for our children, for the day ahead. Only after we have prayed do we move into the rest of the day and our corporate studies.

We study the Bible first, before our other subjects, because as Charlotte Mason says, “The knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making,” and that knowledge has its source in the Old and New Testaments. We seek to ground our children in the panorama of Hebrew history from Abraham to Malachi that they may perceive that Israel’s story is our personal story writ large and the story of humankind writ small. We seek to introduce them to the Person of Our Lord, through His actions and His words, that they might know and love the Savior of the world.

We study history because it is the stage on which people have been acting since the beginning of time. To know history is to know humanity. “There is nothing new under the sun,” says the writer of Ecclesiastes, and those who study history know this to be true. A capacious understanding of the rise and fall of empires, of the role great men and women play at turning points in time, of the merits and mistakes of the past enables a person to avoid the fate that Santayana predicted: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We seek to learn of the past in part so that we may learn from the past.

We study science because the universe is God’s handiwork, and we honor Him by attending to, pondering, and wondering over all that He has created. The natural world is immense and beautiful and orderly. We seek to introduce children to some of its immensity, beauty, and order that they may be inspired to care for creation and adore its Creator.

We believe that knowledge is an end in itself, not the means to a good job or a college scholarship (though these may be by-products of knowledge) and that the true mark of an educated person is not how much they know but how much they care about what they know. This is why we exist: to encourage and equip one another to raise our children to know Christ, to love knowledge, and to care enough to act on what they know.

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How are class levels decided? What does each level look like?

Class sizes and splits vary each year depending on the needs of our students. In general, these are the classes we offer:

Nursery/preschool

We love our youngest “born persons” here at SCC and provide thoughtful, consistent rhythms for our youngest members. In nursery, this might look like playtime, storytime, and doing our best to help naps happen. In preschool, this looks like storytime, free play, stories, crafts, games, and as much time outside as the weather allows! Please do reach out to ask any specific questions about the younger students. We care deeply about loving them well.

In Class:
At this age, we lean into wonder and experiential learning. We use good books, enthusiasm, and embodied experiences when we set up classes for this age. This is a time to set our children’s feet in a large room, as Charlotte Mason would say; we want them to taste and see that the feast of learning is good.

Grammar/Elementary

We group students ages 5-11 into our grammar class. Depending upon enrollment, we further divide this into multiple classes based on age and student readiness. This split often looks like a class for our 5-8 year old students and a class for our 9-11 year old students.

At Home:
The yearly parent pack contains weekly reading and many optional resources. Students will get the most out of our day together if they have read (or listened to you read) the weekly readings listed in the parent pack. Oral and/or written narrations of those readings are highly encouraged. Working at home on any memory work will also help your student participate in the weekly activities. Beyond that, the parent pack contains loads of optional material to support your homeschool.

Students in the grammar levels should expect 3-5 hours of work at home per week.

Logic/Middle School

In Class:
This class consists of our 12-14 year olds. At this level, the demands on the student increase. They are assigned more reading and writing and are expected to maintain an organized notebook of their assignments. We begin to offer them coaching in the skills of close reading, biblical study, and scientific analysis. We continue to care deeply about beauty, wonder, and hands-on science experiments, and we use narration, outlines, and special projects to further their experience and mastery of writing and presenting.

At Home:
Our Middle School/Logic level students are given a syllabus at the beginning of each term, outlining their work for the next five weeks. This work includes reading, narrations, science sketches, and memory work.

Students in the logic level should expect 7-8 hours of work at home each week (mostly independent).

Rhetoric/High School

In Class:
Our high school students continue along the trajectory set in the younger years. Assignments and readings continue to deepen in complexity, but our commitment to wonder, curiosity, and the spirit of inquiry remain. Students are offered rich readings across subjects and respond to them through writing, class discussions, sketches, labs, and other projects.

At Home:
Rhetoric/High School students receive a syllabus each term outlining their readings, narrations, study questions, sketches, and any other work each week. Our co-op is committed to gentle rigor. At this level, you can expect your student to have a substantial amount of work to complete at home.

Students in the rhetoric level should expect 15-16 hours of work at home per week (mostly independent).

The subjects we study at SCC are Bible, history, and science. We follow the four-year cycle laid out in The Well-Trained Mind.

Year 1 (2025-26)
History: Ancients (5000 B.C. – A.D. 400)
Science: Biology
Bible: Genesis through Ruth

Year 2 (2026/27)
History: Middle Ages (400- 1600)
Science: Astronomy/Geology
Bible: Prophets and Wisdom Literature

Year 3 (2027/28)
History: Late Renaissance/Enlightenment (1600-1850)
Science: Chemistry
Bible: Gospels

Year 4 (2028/29)
History: Modern (1850-present)
Science: Physics
Bible: Acts, Epistles, Revelation

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things – not merely industrious, but to love industry – not merely learned, but to love knowledge – not merely pure, but to love purity – not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.”

John Ruskin

SCC is unique in many ways. Our distinctive attributes include having a close-knit, high involvement group of families who work together to create a rich and diverse learning experience for our students.

Every member serves a teaching role, and without each one’s individual strengths we would not be able to provide such a high-quality education. We are unapologetically a Christ-centered, grace-filled group with a commitment to academic excellence.

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Seattle Classical Co-op meets on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

How long is the school year?

We meet for 25 weeks over the course of the school year (September-May) with breaks after each five-week term, over Christmas, and on Good Friday.

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Tuition and Registration

The total fee per family, for 2026-2027, is $600. Registration is due mid-March, along with a $300 registration fee that will be counted towards that total.

Please see our “about” tab for how to contact us, attend an Open House, and obtain the registration paperwork. Once your paperwork and fee are turned in, you’ll be contacted for an interview to help us get to know each other better and ensure a good fit.