School Profile

Thomas MacLaren School

Address

Thomas MacLaren School
303 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Contact Information

Web Site: http://www.maclarenschool.org
Phone: (719)313-4488
Fax: (719)313-4491
Email: info@maclarenschool.org

School Info

Authorizer: Colorado Charter School Institute (CSI)
Year Opened: 2009
County: El Paso
Region: Pikes Peak
Grade Levels: 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
Enrollment: 161
Educational Program: Classical , College Prep , Single Gender Classrooms

Description

The vision of this newly chartered, sixth-through-twelfth grade public school is that all human beings, and thus all students, can know truth, create beauty, and practice goodness. MacLaren emphasizes learning as a lifelong posture toward the world; a posture that is developed in the classroom through Socratic seminars and the practice of learning as doing.

The school is named after an acclaimed local architect, who moved to Colorado Springs in the 1890s to take in its famously curative air and 300 annual days of sunshine; the elegant and abiding buildings that he left the city are emblematic of the kind of integrated learning that students at MacLaren will strive after as they are immersed in a classical liberal education.