Amarillo’s Classical, Christian, Collaborative School
Amarillo’s Classical, Christian, Collaborative School
Amarillo’s Classical, Christian, Collaborative School
We are Christ-centered because Christ is not one subject among many, but the One through whom all things were made, for whom they were made, and in whom they hold together. We confess that Christ is the eternal Son of God, one with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thus, our view of the student, the teacher, creation, and vocation begins with the Triune God and is brought into focus in the person of Christ. are best understood in the light of the person of Christ. We read Scripture habitually, behold Christ in His Word and His works through the curriculum, and worship the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. Our educational aim is realized as students’ lives are conformed to Christ in love for God and neighbor.
Classical
Christian
We know that education is formation. Classical education aims to cultivate wisdom and virtue in students. We seek to cultivate habits of lifelong learning and orient students to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty as they grow in knowledge of God, man, and creation on an educational path rooted in the liberal arts tradition.
Collaborative
Students are best supported in an intentional partnership between the home and the school. We know that formation is caught more than taught. As such, we seek to cultivate a partnership in which parents and teachers are growing together in the embodiment of the good things we want to give to our children.
2018
YEAR FOUNDED
377
STUDENTS ENROLLED
15
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE
2026
FIRST GRADUATING CLASS
Welcome to The Oaks!
In 2016, our family began to pray about a different kind of educational experience for our children. The more we learned, the harder it became to imagine taking the traditional path. In the fall of 2017, we began to homeschool our young children and host informal meetings around our dining room table to listen to other parents and discuss the growth of Classical Christian Collaborative schools.
We wanted the moments of our days to match the aim of our lives. We wanted to nurture the wonder and hunger we saw in our young children for good things - the things that last. We wondered - if education is formation, then how should we spend these years?
Soon, we discovered that our questions echoed the questions of thousands of parents in America. In 1980, parents in three different states founded Classical Christian schools within one year of each other. Today, there is an entire movement of Classical Christian schools in America seeking to recover a time-tested way of educating students and nourishing souls.
In the fall of 2018, The Oaks opened its doors to 75 students in preschool through 5th grade.
In May of 2026, we celebrated the graduation of our pioneer class of seniors.
Today, we host more than 350 students in grades K-12 in southwest Amarillo.
Historically, this path was simply called education (educare, “to bring up, train, or nourish”). For millennia, great thinkers and leaders of the West were formed in virtue, coming to love what is lovely as they studied the liberal arts of language and mathematics, the sciences, philosophy, and theology. Yet in the late 1800s and early 1900s, progressive education replaced the ancient paths with a new model that focused on building workers for the workforce.
We knew we wanted to partner closely with teachers to disciple our children, to nourish their wonder and appetites for true and lasting things, and to aim far beyond test scores and college entrance as we shepherded them through the K-12 years. Trusting God to provide, our visionary board members and pioneer staff and families founded The Oaks in Amarillo in 2018.
We continue to trust Him as we learn and grow together. It is my honor to serve as Head of School at The Oaks alongside a team of wise and skillful leaders and instructors. What was once a small group of families is now a vibrant community of administrators and instructors, donors, volunteers, coaches, parents, grandparents, students, and alumni seeking to love God, neighbors, and nations.
The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy. I hope to meet you at an informational meeting this year!
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Parents & Prospective Students
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