Westminster School at Oak Mountain

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The Westminster School is a K-12 classical Christian school and is a ministry of Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church (PCA). Founded in 1999 as Oak Mountain Classical School, the school has grown to an enrollment of more than 500 students. The first graduating class matriculated in 2006.

Westminster's leadership is committed to a thoroughly Christian approach that includes shepherding the heart, training the mind, and nurturing the soul. Whether it be through the curriculum, on the playground, or in day-to-day relationships, we want the gospel of Christ to be preeminent in our community.

Westminster is equally committed to academic quality. We like to say it like this: discipleship and scholarship without one compromising the other. While the curriculum and pace are challenging, we are not a school targeting the academically elite.

Mortimer Adler, the American philosopher, educator, and author, said the best education for the best is the best education for all. We are convinced a student of average aptitude who is diligent and focused can complete our academic program. Nevertheless, we understand that an excellent education, just as an excellent sports program, assumes a healthy measure of rigor and commitment. We hold the conviction that learning does not only involve hard work but also rewarding work.

We are well aware that rigor and commitment are not very popular words in modern culture. We know there is a general fear of pushing students or expecting too much of them. However, at Westminster, we do not fear calling students to a higher standard. First, because all children are "fearfully and wonderfully made" in God's image, we believe, as Richard Weaver argued, that "while they are prone to err they are capable of glory." Second, we believe in grace. Thus, every time we push students to greater heights, we point them to Christ. Students do not need to run from the expectation to do what is extraordinary. Nor do we need to fear they might crumble beneath the weight of higher expectations. Because in the end, they will not be judged by their accomplishments but by their longing and their hope for the accomplishments of Christ. Our Values:

• Westminster believes. We are biblically driven, gospel-centered, grace saturated, and theologically reformed.
• Westminster helps. We endeavor to help Christian parents fulfill their God-ordained obligation to educate their children and nurture them to full maturity in the gospel.
• Westminster connects. We foster relationships that reflect a united body of Christ as we celebrate diverse gifts, challenges, and victories together.
• Westminster loves. We strive to demonstrate Christ's love for our students by the way we teach, serve, and live from a whole heart.
• Westminster teaches. We embrace the classical liberal arts concepts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric to cultivate wisdom, virtue, and eloquence in our students.
• Westminster teaches. We embrace the classical liberal arts concepts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric to cultivate wisdom, virtue, and eloquence in our students.
• Westminster builds. We seek the Kingdom of God's progress in this world through the pursuit of beauty in all things with a spirit of truth and love.

Our goal is to engage the whole person to equip a child with wisdom and eloquence to be an effective leader and life-long learner. We hold the conviction that both of these qualities are an integral part of our fundamental role as human beings made in the image of God.

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